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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Kolbert & Mark Hertsgaard: Under a White Sky
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents an exceptional Zoom event:\nELIZABETH KOLBERT + MARK HERTSGAARD\nUnder a White Sky\, The Nature of the Future \nElizabeth Kolbert\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sixth Extinction\,” returns to humanity’s transformative impact on our environment\, now asking: after doing so much damage\, can we change nature\, this time to save it? That man should have dominion “over all the earth\, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it is said we now live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In “Under a White Sky” Kolbert takes a hard look at this new world we are creating. She examines how the sorts of intervention that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. \n“Under a White Sky” takes a clear-eyed look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish – one that lives in a tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave Desert. She visits a lava field in Iceland\, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia\, where researchers are trying to develop “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard\, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space to cool the earth. By turns inspiring\, terrifying\, and darkly comic\, “Under a White Sky” is a thoroughly original view of the challenges confronting us. \nMark Hertsgaard is an American journalist\, author and environmental correspondent for The Nation magazine. Formerly a cultural reporter for the New Yorker\, he has written seven books\, including “Bravehearts: Whistle Blowing in the Age of Snowden\, and “Hot: Living through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.” \nThis event features two outstanding environmental authorities discussing the future of our planet. \n$20 one admission\, $35 admission + book. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/elizabeth-kolbert-mark-hertsgaard-under-a-white-sky-nature-of-future-tickets-131627494379
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-kolbert-mark-hertsgaard-under-a-white-sky/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nFEBRUARY 11TH FEATURED WRITER: VALERIA LUISELLI\nValeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea\, South Africa\, and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction\, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, The Carnegie Medal\, an American Book Award\,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize\, and the Booker Prize. \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-valeria-luiselli/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Naz Beheshti - Pause. Breathe. Choose. (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A leading-edge guide to how well-being drives success across all aspects of life. \nCEO\, executive wellness coach\, and thought leader Naz Beheshti distills the most valuable lessons she learned from her first boss and mentor\, Steve Jobs\, into a holistic method to live your best life. Presenting the highly effective framework that Beheshti has used with clients for over a decade\, this book is a guide for self-discovery\, better choices\, and purposeful growth. \nNow more than ever\, when stress and burnout are ubiquitous\, we must access our authentic self by closing the gap between leading with our head and our heart. When we integrate every aspect of our life (career\, relationships\, self-care\, and self-development) and fuel that ecosystem as a whole\, we can both be well and do well. Rooted in neuroscience\, mindfulness\, and positive psychology\, Pause. Breathe. Choose. offers more than eighty proven strategies to improve yourself and your workplace and achieve sustainable success. \nNaz Beheshti is the author of Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being. She is an executive wellness coach\, speaker\, Forbes contributor\, and CEO and founder of Prananaz\, a company that provides corporate wellness solutions for improving leadership effectiveness\, employee engagement and well-being\, and company culture. Clients include Nike\, JPMorgan Chase\, Omega Institute\, UCSF\, Columbia University\, and Stanford University. Naz also cofounded Rise2Shine\, a nonprofit helping to alleviate the suffering of young children in Haiti. She lives in New York City. Visit her online at NazBeheshti.com. \nBJ Fogg\, PhD\, is the founder of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University and author of the New York Times bestselling book Tiny Habits. In addition to his research\, Fogg teaches industry innovators how human behavior really works. He created the Tiny Habits Academy to help people around the world. He lives in Northern California and Maui.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naz-beheshti-pause-breathe-choose-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virginia Loh-Hagan on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:reading the award-winning Nian\, the Chinese New Year Dragon\, an illustrated retelling for young readers of the Chinese folktale about a dragon that threatens a village each spring and Mei\, the young girl who is destined to defeat him. \nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 13\, 2021 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nMei hates springtime. Why? Because it’s only in the spring that Nian\, a fierce dragon\, is able to leave his mountain prison under the sea to terrorize the local village. When the villagers hear the rumblings of Nian’s hungry stomach\, they know that winter has ended and spring is coming. But this year on the night before the first day of spring\, a magical warrior visits Mei in her dreams. He tells Mei that it is her destiny to face and defeat Nian. But she must do it within 15 days or the dragon will be free forever. Author Virginia Loh-Hagan (PoPo’s Lucky Chinese New Year) gives this retelling of the Nian legend an original twist\, while explaining the origins of Chinese New Year traditions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virginia-loh-hagan-on-instagram-igtv/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Vendela Vida (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Vendela Vida’s newest release\, We Run the Tides is an achingly beautiful story of female friendship\, betrayal\, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco. \nTeenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend\, Maria Fabiola\, own the streets of Sea Cliff\, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches\, its hidden corners and eccentric characters—as well as the upscale all-girls’ school they attend. One day\, walking to school with friends\, they witness a horrible act—or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened\, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola’s sudden disappearance—a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. \nSuspenseful and poignant\, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida’s masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre–tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost\, the pain of too much freedom\, and the struggle to find one’s authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth\, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth\, in all its beauty and confusion. \nVendela is the award-winning author of six books\, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. She is a founding editor of The Believer magazine\, and co-editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and Confidence\, or the Appearance of Confidence\, a collection of interviews with musicians. Two of Vida’s novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the year\, and she is the winner of the Kate Chopin Award\, given to a writer whose female protagonist chooses an unconventional path. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia\, the San Francisco writing center for youth\, and lives in the Bay Area with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-vendela-vida-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rashid Khalidi & Nora Barrows-Friedman: Hundred Years War on Palestine
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a unique Zoom Event: \n  \nRASHID KHALIDI & Nora Barrows-Friedman \n  \nTHE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE \nA History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance\, 1917-2017 \n  \nA landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East\, told through pivotal events and family history. \n  \n“A riveting and original work\, the first to explore the war against the Palestinians on the basis of deep immersion in their struggle-a work enriched by solid scholarship\, vivid personal experience\, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict.  -Noam Chomsky \n  \nDrawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members-mayors\, judges\, scholars\, diplomats\, and journalists-The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict\, which tend\, at best\, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead\, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians\, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel\, but backed by Britain and the United States\, the great powers of the age. \n  \nOriginal\, authoritative\, and important\, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization\, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians\, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day. \n  \nRashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East\, among them the award-winning Palestinian Identity\, Brokers of Deceit\, and The Iron Cage. \n  \nNora Barrows-Friedman is a longtime broadcaster and journalist who has focused on Palestine and Palestinian rights issues for nearly 20 years. \n  \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \n  \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/rashid-khalidi-nora-barrows-friedman-the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine-tickets-131127992355
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rashid-khalidi-nora-barrows-friedman-hundred-years-war-on-palestine/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kate Russo - Super Host (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart. \nBennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now\, at age fifty-five\, his wife has left him\, he hasn’t sold a painting in two years\, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work\, claiming they’ll have more value retrospectively…when he’s dead. So\, left with a large West London home and no income\, he’s forced to move into his artist’s studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental site\, AirBed. \nA stranger now in his own home\, with his daughter\, Mia\, off at art school\, and any new relationships fizzling out at best\, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests—lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie—unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long. \nWarm\, witty\, and utterly humane\, Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age\, relationships\, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life. \nKate Russo grew up in Maine but now divides her time between there and the United Kingdom. She has an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art\, and exhibits in both the UK and the US. \nSteven Rowley is the bestselling author of the novels Lily and the Octopus and The Editor. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, he is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-russo-super-host-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, February 16\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82735553371. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpUncannyValley or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/UncannyValleyAB. \nA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020. \nNamed one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, NPR\, the Los Angeles Times\, ELLE\, Esquire\, Parade\, Teen Vogue\, The Boston Globe\, Forbes\, The Times (UK)\, Fortune\, Chicago Tribune\, Glamour\, The A.V. Club\, Vox\, Jezebel\, Town & Country\, OneZero\, Apartment Therapy\, Good Housekeeping\, PopMatters\, Electric Literature\, Self\, The Week (UK) and BookPage. One of Amazon’s Best 100 Books of 2020. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. \n“A definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come.” –Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-of-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uncanny-valley-by-anna-wiener-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jenara Nerenberg - Divergent Mind (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD\, autism\, synesthesia\, high sensitivity\, and sensory processing disorder—exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish. \nAs a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer\, entrepreneur\, and devoted mother\, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her “symptoms”—only ever labeled as anxiety—were considered autistic and ADHD. Being a journalist\, she dove into the research and uncovered neurodiversity—a framework that moves away from pathologizing “abnormal” versus “normal” brains and instead recognizes the vast diversity of our mental makeups. \nWhen it comes to women\, sensory processing differences are often overlooked\, masked\, or mistaken for something else entirely. Between a flawed system that focuses on diagnosing younger\, male populations\, and the fact that girls are conditioned from a young age to blend in and conform to gender expectations\, women often don’t learn about their neurological differences until they are adults\, if at all. As a result\, potentially millions live with undiagnosed or misdiagnosed neurodivergences\, and the misidentification leads to depression\, anxiety\, low self-esteem\, and shame. Meanwhile\, we all miss out on the gifts their neurodivergent minds have to offer. \nDivergent Mind is a long-overdue\, much-needed answer for women who have a deep sense that they are “different.” Sharing real stories from women with high sensitivity\, ADHD\, autism\, misophonia\, dyslexia\, SPD\, and more\, Nerenberg explores how these brain variances present differently in women and dispels widely-held misconceptions (for example\, it’s not that autistic people lack sensitivity and empathy\, they have an overwhelming excess of it). \nNerenberg also offers us a path forward\, describing practical changes in how we communicate\, how we design our surroundings\, and how we can better support divergent minds. When we allow our wide variety of brain makeups to flourish\, we create a better tomorrow for us all. \n \nJenara Nerenberg lectures widely on neuroscience\, innovation\, sensitivity\, leadership\, and diversity. Selected as a “brave new idea” presenter by the Aspen Institute for her work on re-framing mental differences\, Jenara is also the founder and host of The Neurodiversity Project. She holds degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and UC Berkeley. Her work has been published in Fast Company\, New York magazine\, Susan Cain’s Quiet Revolution\, Garrison Institute\, Elaine Aron’s HSP\, Healthline\, KQED\, and elsewhere. In addition to her work as a journalist\, Jenara is a frequent workshop facilitator\, speaker\, and event host for institutions including the Stanford Graduate School of Business and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nLulu Miller is the cohost of Radiolab\, cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia\, and a Peabody Award–winning science journalist. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker\, VQR\, Orion\, Electric Literature\, Catapult\, and beyond. Her favorite spot on earth is Humpback Rocks. She is the author of Why Fish Don’t Exist. \nJenara Nerenberg photo courtesy of author
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenara-nerenberg-divergent-mind-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kink: On & Off the Page
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, February 17th at 6pm PT when we celebrate the new short story anthology\, KINK\, with an evening of readings\, live demonstrations\, and conversations in partnership with Kink.com! \nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT \nAbout the Event \nKink.com and Green Apple Books are partnering for an exclusive launch party for a new short fiction anthology\, KINK. Edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell\, KINK brings together 15 acclaimed writers and their stories of power\, pain\, fetish and desire. \nThis groundbreaking event goes one step further\, tying readings by celebrated authors to live demonstrations and conversations with some of the BDSM community’s most respected voices. \nJoin us as authors and kinksters converge to explore the fact and the fiction in this powerful collection. Featured authors include Vanessa Clark\, Garth Greenwell\, and R.O. Kwon. \nAbout KINK \nKINK is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love\, desire\, BDSM\, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. They explore bondage\, power-play\, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates\, therapists’ offices\, underground sex clubs\, and even a sex theater in early-20th century Paris. While there are whips and chains\, sure\, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful\, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires\, as portrayed by some of today’s most exciting writers\, including: Callum Angus\, Alexander Chee\, Vanessa Clark\, Melissa Febos\, Kim Fu\, Roxane Gay\, Cara Hoffman\, Zeyn Joukhadar\, Chris Kraus\, Carmen Maria Machado\, Peter Mountford\, Larissa Pham\, and Brandon Taylor\, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors. \nAbout the Authors \nVanessa Clark is an intersex trans fem author that has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar\, POPSUGAR\, Vice\, and Them\, and has written articles for Vox. Pronouns: she/they. Even though she lives in New Jersey\, she is more likely spending her free time at some of the best indie bookstores\, parks\, museums\, and record shops in New York City. On social media\, you can find her on Facebook (@vcerotica) and Twitter (@FoxxyGlamKitty). \nGarth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You\, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for several other awards. His second book of fiction\, Cleanness\, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020. He coedited the anthology Kink\, out in 2021. A recent Guggenheim Fellow\, he lives in Iowa City. \nR.O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, was named a best book of the year by over forty publications and is being translated into seven languages. She coedited the anthology Kink\, out in 2021. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, and her writing is published in the New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Paris Review\, NPR\, and elsewhere. \nA Note About This Event \n– THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT. Please join from your personal computer\, laptop\, tablet or smartphone. \n– You must be 18+ \n– Please log in on time. \n– All sales are final. \n– A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent via the email you registered with. \n– Please download Zoom immediately to your computer\, smartphone or tablet once you receive the link. This will save you time and also ensure that you will be able to join the event on time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kink-on-off-the-page-2/
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SUMMARY:Author: Melissa Valentine in conversation with writer Amber Butts
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Melissa Valentine’s book\, The Names of All the Flowers\, Valentine and Butts will discuss writing and community organizing. \nSet in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland\, The Names of All the Flowers\, explores siblinghood\, adolescence and grief in a family shattered by loss. Published by Feminist Press. \nYouTube Live\nMelissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland\, CA whose work explores themes of race\, trauma and healing. Her debut memoir\, The Names of All the Flowers\, was the 2019 winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She is a 2020 artist fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in Nonfiction Literature. Valentine has also been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine\, Guernica\, Jezebel and Apogee among others. She is a Visiting Professor at University of California at Santa Cruz. \nAmber Butts is a storyteller\, cultural strategist and grief worker who believes that Black folks are already whole. Her work asks big and small questions about how we move towards actualizing spaces that center tenderness\, nuance and joy\, while living in a world reliant on our terror. Their writing has appeared in NPR\, Essence\, Zora Magazine and metoo\, amongst others. She is currently at work on a speculative fiction novel that writes elders into the future. \nConnect \nMelissa Valentine – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nAmber Butts – Website | Instagram | Twitter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-melissa-valentine-in-conversation-with-writer-amber-butts/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell in conversation with Melissa Broder
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of Brontez Purnell’s new book \n100 Boyfriends \npublished by MCD x FSG Originals \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nAn irrerverent\, sensitive\, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero \n“It’s like that saying\, ‘Where god closes a door\, he opens a window\,’ but in this particular case the window was on the fifth floor and the house was on fire.” \nTransgressive\, foulmouthed\, and devastatingly funny\, Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting—and often losing—the urge to self-sabotage. His characters solicit sex on their lunch breaks\, expose themselves to racist neighbors\, sleep with their coworker’s husbands\, rub Preparation H on their hungover eyes\, and\, in an uproarious epilogue\, take a punk band on a disastrous tour of Europe. They also travel to claim inheritances\, push past personal trauma\, and cultivate community while living on the margins of a white supremacist\, heteronormative society. \nArmed with a deadpan wit that finds humor in even the lowest of nadirs\, Brontez Purnell—a widely acclaimed underground writer\, filmmaker\, musician\, and performance artist—writes with the peerless zeal\, insight\, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. From dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama\, Purnell indexes desire\, desperation\, race\, and loneliness with a startling blend of levity and vulnerability. Together\, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within 100 Boyfriends are a singular and uncompromising vision of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller\, as fearless as he is human. \nBrontez Purnell is a writer\, musician\, dancer\, filmmaker\, and performance artist. He is the author of a graphic novel\, a novella\, a children’s book\, and the novel Since I Laid My Burden Down. The recipient of a 2018 Whiting Writers’ Award for Fiction\, he was named one of the thirty-two Black Male Writers of Our Time by T: The New York Times Style Magazine in 2018. Purnell is also the frontman for the band the Younger Lovers\, a cofounder of the experimental dance group the Brontez Purnell Dance Company\, the creator of the renowned cult zine Fag School\, and the director of several short films\, music videos\, and the documentary Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock. Born in Triana\, Alabama\, he’s lived in Oakland\, California\, for more than a decade. \nMelissa Broder is the author of the novels MILK FED (Feb 2\, 2021) and THE PISCES\, the essay collection SO SAD TODAY\, and five poetry collections\, including SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems (Summer 2021) and LAST SEXT. Broder has written for The New York Times\, Elle.com\, VICE\, Vogue Italia\, and New York Magazine‘s The Cut. Her poems appear in POETRY\, The Iowa Review\, Guernica\, Fence\,  et al. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. \nPraise for 100 Boyfriends: \n\n\n  \n\n\n“This stunning collection of vignettes from artist\, punk rocker\, and Whiting Award winner Purnell forms a delightfully crass\, kaleidoscopic worldview. Each story introduces new heartbreaks and reminders that moments of intimacy often end in loneliness . . . Purnell brilliantly immerses the reader in Black\, queer desire with humor\, self-awareness\, and just the right amount of vulgarity.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Each story in 100 Boyfriends is a minor eclipse: stunning in scope\, technically blinding\, and entirely miraculous. I laughed and I cried and I laughed until I cried—Brontez Purnell is a marvel.“ –Bryan Washington\, author of Memorial and Lot \n“In the vast history of the universe there is only one Brontez Purnell\, and thank god we get him. From cruising to crushes\, cumming to closure\, 100 Boyfriends is a mandatory read for the funny-sexy lit freaks among us—a candy box of Euro boys and Daddies\, blue pills and satanic exes—all told in an addictively-delicious voice by a writer who is somehow both wildly cool and deprecatingly humble at the same time.” —Melissa Broder\, author of The Pisces and So Sad Today \n“Brontez Purnell has such seemingly casual genius that at times you forget you’re reading a book and are transported to some couch/bus/basement where the drugs are really good and your friend is really funny\, maybe your weird closeted cousin is on HarlemHookups in the corner\, and all of a sudden your friend says some fucking Sappho ass\, weird ass\, brilliant ass bullshit. I love this slut of a book\, it’s a slut ass maker. 100 Boyfriends or no new boyfriends at all\, Purnell’s autofiction/memoir/whatever the hell this marvelously sad and intoxicating book is shook me up good with its honesty and blunt-to-face endings\, the jokes and stories I didn’t know we were allowed to tell outside of circles of faggots and misfits. But this book is in those circles\, makes you tea and steals for you\, it invites us in\, but would we mind shutting the hell up cause it’s a little hungover? The light is coming through the windows so clear.” —Danez Smith\, author of Homie \n“No one writes like Brontez Purnell. It’s not just that he is hilariously irreverent\, which he is\, but that he reserves reverence for that which is deserving. 100 Boyfriends is like a good lover\, at turns vulgar and vulnerable\, dirty and desperate\, and always grinding toward magic.” —Justin Torres\, author of We the Animals \n“Scathingly lucid\, filthily pure\, this is the most astute\, witty\, acid-tongued and emotionally generous book about relationships—from one night stands to internet no-no’s to ill-conceived crushes to long-term loves\, requited and otherwise—I’ve read. Painfully knowing yet never jaded\, 100 Boyfriends dissects\, explodes\, lambasts\, and revels in the ugly beauty of imperfect intimacies with prose that consistently puts its finger on the bleeding pulse of contemporary desire. An unforgettable ode to the heart that beats inside every longing body.”–Maryse Meijer\, author of The Seventh Mansion \n“The stories in 100 Boyfriends took me on a journey: They made me laugh. They made me gasp. They made me feel. Brontez Purnell is a vibrant literary voice you won’t soon forget. I love this book.” —De’Shawn Charles Winslow\, author of In West Mills
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-in-conversation-with-melissa-broder/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210217T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kink: On & Off the Page
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, FEBRUARY 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE NEW SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY\, KINK\, WITH AN EVENING OF READINGS\, LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS\, AND CONVERSATIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KINK.COM! \nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT\nAbout the Event \nKink.com and Green Apple Books are partnering for an exclusive launch party for a new short fiction anthology\, KINK. Edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell\, KINK brings together 15 acclaimed writers and their stories of power\, pain\, fetish and desire. \nThis groundbreaking event goes one step further\, tying readings by celebrated authors to live demonstrations and conversations with some of the BDSM community’s most respected voices. \nJoin us as authors and kinksters converge to explore the fact and the fiction in this powerful collection. Featured authors include Vanessa Clark\, Garth Greenwell\, and R.O. Kwon\nAbout KINK \nKINK is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love\, desire\, BDSM\, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. They explore bondage\, power-play\, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates\, therapists’ offices\, underground sex clubs\, and even a sex theater in early-20th century Paris. While there are whips and chains\, sure\, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful\, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires\, as portrayed by some of today’s most exciting writers\, including: Callum Angus\, Alexander Chee\, Vanessa Clark\, Melissa Febos\, Kim Fu\, Roxane Gay\, Cara Hoffman\, Zeyn Joukhadar\, Chris Kraus\, Carmen Maria Machado\, Peter Mountford\, Larissa Pham\, and Brandon Taylor\, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors.\nAbout the Authors \nVanessa Clark is an intersex trans fem author that has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar\, POPSUGAR\, Vice\, and Them\, and has written articles for Vox. Pronouns: she/they. Even though she lives in New Jersey\, she is more likely spending her free time at some of the best indie bookstores\, parks\, museums\, and record shops in New York City. On social media\, you can find her on Facebook (@vcerotica) and Twitter (@FoxxyGlamKitty). \nGarth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You\, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for several other awards. His second book of fiction\, Cleanness\, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020. He coedited the anthology Kink\, out in 2021. A recent Guggenheim Fellow\, he lives in Iowa City. \nR.O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, was named a best book of the year by over forty publications and is being translated into seven languages. She coedited the anthology Kink\, out in 2021. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, and her writing is published in the New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Paris Review\, NPR\, and elsewhere.\nA Note About This Event \n– THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT. Please join from your personal computer\, laptop\, tablet or smartphone. \n– You must be 18+ \n– Please log in on time. \n– All sales are final. \n– A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent via the email you registered with. \n– Please download Zoom immediately to your computer\, smartphone or tablet once you receive the link. This will save you time and also ensure that you will be able to join the event on time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kink-on-off-the-page/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Adam O. Davis & Emma Hine - Index of Haunted Houses & Stay Safe
DESCRIPTION:Join Book Passage in welcoming Adam O. Davis (author of Index of Haunted Houses) and Emma Hine (author of Stay Safe) for a reading and discussion celebrating their debut poetry collections\, both of which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and were recently published by Sarabande Books. \n \nIndex of Haunted Houses is a book of ghost stories\, and for the most part\, ghosts are jealous monsters\, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here\, yet we gradually become aware of the spirits in haunted houses in the way they tread over creaky floors\, slam doors\, and issue sudden gusts of wind. These poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words\, the more charged they are. The engine driving the sense of haunting and loss is money\, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones\, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. There is\, too\, an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment\, and persists\, despite being in the past\, present\, or future. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut\, one that will surprise\, convince\, and most of all\, delight. \n“From ‘the body of New Jersey’ to ‘the desert/like a house of belief\,’ the poems of Index of Haunted Houses traverse the entirety of time and space that we call American. In this book\, Adam O. Davis means for language as precise as ‘ledgers lavish with loss\,’ to lead us to the place within us where history meets landscape. This is a brilliant debut.”\n—Jericho Brown \n \nAt the center of Emma Hine’s stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark\, their mother has a brain tumor\, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree—and to cope with these very real terrors\, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy world. We hear stories of a mountain lion that slaughters a deer\, a transparent body washed up on a beach\, a selkie who ventures to shore and becomes their mother: “On land her pelt was heavy / like stewed velvet\, so she taught herself / to take it off.” The sisters’ environment of ocean and sand\, forests and farmhouses\, forms a lush backdrop to many of these poems. But later\, as the speaker ages\, we find ourselves in the mountains\, in an art museum\, in a spacecraft where a recorded voice “has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth.” The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination\, quiet and explosion. Stay Safe is delicate and extraordinary\, a powerful debut. \n“Simply said: this is the renewable energy we’ve been waiting for. So attuned are these poems to their introspective nature and terrors of the self\, their wild narratives\, and linguistic spells\, this book begins to feel like its own solar farm: each page\, a panel of skyshine and wonderments.”\n—Major Jackson \n  \nAdam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses\, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton poetry prize\, which was published by Sarabande Books in September 2020. The recipient of the 2016 George Bogin Memorial award from the Poetry Society of America\, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer\, The Best American Poetry 2021\, The Paris Review\, and ZYZZYVA. He lives in San Diego\, California\, where he teaches English literature at The Bishop’s School. \nEmma Hine is the author of Stay Safe\, which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and was published by Sarabande Books in January. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel\, Gulf Coast\, The Offing\, The Paris Review\, and The Southern Review\, among others\, and she currently works at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-o-davis-emma-hine-index-of-haunted-houses-stay-safe/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T190000
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SUMMARY:LILY KING
DESCRIPTION:LILY KING\nThursday\, February 18\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n“Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit.” – Ann Patchett \nLily King is the award-winning author of five novels. Her 2014 novel\, Euphoria\, received with widespread critical acclaim\, was inspired by the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead. King now returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. Written with her trademark humor\, heart\, and intelligence\, Writers & Lovers explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. \n  \nPhoto credit: Winky Lewis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lily-king/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T190000
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SUMMARY:This is Now: David Bradford and Carole Robin
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nIn the history of humankind\, connecting to others and building strong relationships has never been more complicated. \nThat was true even before a pandemic and global change shifted social rules as never before. In recent decades a complex digital world\, our busy modern lives\, and competitive professional landscapes left a lot of highly skilled people simply unclear on how to build stronger\, more lasting relationships. Each successive generation reported feeling more disconnected. Enter the famed “Touchy Feely” course at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business\, lead by esteemed professors David Bradford and Carole Robin. Seeing a need\, two professors created a course to help some of the brightest minds in the world build stronger ties. \nFor an exciting\, personal\, instructive This Is Now hour\, Angie Coiro interviews the experts who made history teaching social skills at a competitive and revered institution of higher education. We’re now so excited to hear from Bradford and Robin as they share those insights in Connect\, a guide based on their renowned Interpersonal Dynamics course at Stanford. For thousands of students and leaders\, these two brilliant educators have offered clear guidance on the pursuit of deeper\, more fulfilling relationships with friends\, partners\, colleagues\, and family. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStrong relationships are crucial to a fulfilling life. An exceptional relationship—one in which we feel understood and supported for who we are—can seem like magic to each person involved. But how is that bond cultivated? According to Bradford and Robin\, the process of building magic relationships can be very practically described\, learned\, and applied. And they make it fun. \nDon’t miss this dynamic conversation with Drs. David Bradford and Carole Robin for Connect. How are you connecting to your world lately? \n**Get your tickets early\, as webinar space is limited! Bring up to one additional friend on a second screen with our “Bring a Friend” option\, and turn it into a book club event.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-david-bradford-and-carole-robin/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Zak Salih and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, February 18th at 6pm PT when Zak Salih discusses his debut novel\, Let’s Get Back to the Party\, with Lydia Kiesling on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81593291711\n\nPraise for Let’s Get Back to the Party\n“With an artist’s eye for beauty and an art historian’s for detail\, Zak Salih excavates the lives of his characters and leaves no stone unturned to ask questions about what it means to be a queer individual\, to be a queer community\, to be queer alone and with others. Let’s Get Back to the Party is a book for those of us who simultaneously adore and abhor the pains and ecstasies of social closeness—which is to say it’s a book for us now\, us all.””—Matt Ortile\, author of The Groom Will Keep His Name\n\n“[A] stirring ode to the many faces of queerness. … What unfolds is an intimate saga that brims with necessary conversations about cultural identity.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine: “32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021”\n\n“Let’s Get Back to the Party is a gorgeous\, raw\, tender\, trenchant novel about men figuring out how to live. At once gimlet-eyed and generous to his wonderfully drawn characters–fallible\, lovable\, and endlessly real–Salih paints a vivid portrait of the paradoxes of queer life in contemporary America\, his characters navigating love and friendship in communities shaped both by freedom and fear\, and by trauma that is both collective and individual. This is a stellar debut from a huge talent.”—Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State\nAbout Let’s Get Back to the Party\n\nA Most-Anticipated Book of 2021: BuzzFeed * The Millions * Cosmopolitan * Electric Literature * LGBTQ Reads * Paperback Paris\nOne of Advocate’s “22 LGBTQ+ Books You Absolutely Need to Read This Year”\n\nIt is 2015\, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling\, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down. A high school art history teacher\, newly single and desperately lonely\, he envies his queer students their freedom to live openly the youth he lost to fear and shame.\n\nWhen he runs into his childhood friend Oscar Burnham at a wedding in Washington\, D.C.\, he can’t help but see it as a second chance. Now thirty-five\, the men haven’t seen each other in more than a decade. But Oscar has no interest in their shared history\, nor in the sense of be­longing Sebastian craves. Instead\, he’s outraged by what he sees as the death of gay culture: bars overrun with bachelorette parties\, friends cou­pling off and having babies. For Oscar\, confor­mity isn’t peace\, it’s surrender.\n\nWhile Oscar and Sebastian struggle to find their place in a rapidly changing world\, each is drawn into a cross-generational friendship that treads the line between envy and obsession: Se­bastian with one of his students\, Oscar with an older icon of the AIDS era. And as they collide again and again\, both men must reckon not just with one another but with themselves.\n\nProvocative\, moving\, and rich with sharply drawn characters\, Let’s Get Back to the Party in­troduces an exciting and contemporary new talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-zak-salih-and-lydia-kiesling-2/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Zak Salih and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, FEBRUARY 18 AT 6PM PT WHEN ZAK SALIH DISCUSSES HIS DEBUT NOVEL\, LET’S GET BACK TO THE PARTY\, WITH LYDIA KIESLING ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81593291711\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81593291711#  or +13462487799\,\,81593291711#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kihUOUm66 \nPraise for Let’s Get Back to the Party \n“With an artist’s eye for beauty and an art historian’s for detail\, Zak Salih excavates the lives of his characters and leaves no stone unturned to ask questions about what it means to be a queer individual\, to be a queer community\, to be queer alone and with others. Let’s Get Back to the Party is a book for those of us who simultaneously adore and abhor the pains and ecstasies of social closeness—which is to say it’s a book for us now\, us all.””—Matt Ortile\, author of The Groom Will Keep His Name \n“[A] stirring ode to the many faces of queerness. … What unfolds is an intimate saga that brims with necessary conversations about cultural identity.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine: “32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021” \n“Let’s Get Back to the Party is a gorgeous\, raw\, tender\, trenchant novel about men figuring out how to live. At once gimlet-eyed and generous to his wonderfully drawn characters–fallible\, lovable\, and endlessly real–Salih paints a vivid portrait of the paradoxes of queer life in contemporary America\, his characters navigating love and friendship in communities shaped both by freedom and fear\, and by trauma that is both collective and individual. This is a stellar debut from a huge talent.”—Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State \nAbout Let’s Get Back to the Party \nA Most-Anticipated Book of 2021: BuzzFeed * The Millions * Cosmopolitan * Electric Literature * LGBTQ Reads * Paperback Paris\nOne of Advocate‘s “22 LGBTQ+ Books You Absolutely Need to Read This Year” \nIt is 2015\, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling\, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down. A high school art history teacher\, newly single and desperately lonely\, he envies his queer students their freedom to live openly the youth he lost to fear and shame. \nWhen he runs into his childhood friend Oscar Burnham at a wedding in Washington\, D.C.\, he can’t help but see it as a second chance. Now thirty-five\, the men haven’t seen each other in more than a decade. But Oscar has no interest in their shared history\, nor in the sense of be­longing Sebastian craves. Instead\, he’s outraged by what he sees as the death of gay culture: bars overrun with bachelorette parties\, friends cou­pling off and having babies. For Oscar\, confor­mity isn’t peace\, it’s surrender. \nWhile Oscar and Sebastian struggle to find their place in a rapidly changing world\, each is drawn into a cross-generational friendship that treads the line between envy and obsession: Se­bastian with one of his students\, Oscar with an older icon of the AIDS era. And as they collide again and again\, both men must reckon not just with one another but with themselves. \nProvocative\, moving\, and rich with sharply drawn characters\, Let’s Get Back to the Party in­troduces an exciting and contemporary new talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-zak-salih-and-lydia-kiesling/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T190000
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SUMMARY:Author Daniel Nayeri Discusses Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 18\, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Daniel Nayeri to discuss his new novel\, EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (a true story). \nThis book is a favorite of GGP’s staff. Donna describes it as “magical\, haunting\, uplifting\, funny\, and sad all at once.” \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89898033801.https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89898033801 \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpEverythingSadIsUntrue or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/EverythingSadAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nA true refugee story told in a Scheherazade-like format. It’s the most engrossing book I’ve read this year: it’s magical\, haunting\, uplifting\, funny\, and sad all at once. I love this boy and I loved learning about his Iranian childhood and one-of-a-kind immigrant experience in Oklahoma. A MUST READ! \n— Donna \n  \n  \nOne of my Top 3 Books of 2020: a rich history of a young Iranian refugee making a life in Oklahoma\, his relationship with his parents\, and finding an identity. \n— Amy \n  \n  \nOne of my Top 3 Books of 2020: This beautiful book made me laugh and cry. I listened to the audiobook\, and the narrator’s voice is everything. He uses humor and myths to tell the tale of his Iranian family settling in Oklahoma and though it was written for kids\, it is great for all ages. \n— Sarah \n  \nDescription\n\nAt the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma\, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands\, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned\, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. \nBut Khosrou’s stories\, stretching back years\, and decades\, and centuries\, are beautiful\, and terrifying\, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them\, back to the sad\, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras\, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything\, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. \nWe bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou’s family’s past\, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry “Akh\, Tamar!” and touched carpets woven with precious gems. \nLike Scheherazade in a hostile classroom\, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). \nIt is Daniel’s. \nAbout the Author\n\nDaniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the publisher of Odd Dot\, an imprint of Macmillan\, making him one of the youngest publishers in the industry. He has served on the CBC diversity committee and the CBC panel committee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-daniel-nayeri-discusses-everything-sad-is-untrue-a-true-story/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bill Gates - How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Writers Bloc and Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall Present Bill Gates\nFriday\, February 19\, 11:00am PT/2:00pm ET • Tickets: $45 (includes hardcover copy of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster) • Virtual Event \nIn this urgent\, authoritative book\, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster\, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging\, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. \nBill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics\, chemistry\, biology\, engineering\, political science\, and finance\, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet’s slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book\, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases\, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-gates-how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T120000
DTSTAMP:20260416T015521
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SUMMARY:Zetta Elliott on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:reading A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart\, a powerful\, affirming poem in which a Black child explores his shifting emotions throughout the year. \n“A resonant exultation of community and the importance of self-reflection.”–Publishers Weekly \nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 20\, 2021 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nThere is a place inside of me\na space deep down inside of me\nwhere all my feelings hide.  \nSummertime is filled with joy—skateboarding and playing basketball —until his community is deeply wounded by a police shooting. As fall turns to winter and then spring\, fear grows into anger\, then pride and peace. \nIn her stunning debut\, illustrator Noa Denmon articulates the depth and nuances of a child’s experiences following a police shooting–through grief and protests\, healing and community–with washes of color as vibrant as his words. \nHere is a groundbreaking narrative that can help all readers–children and adults alike–talk about the feelings hiding deep inside each of us. \nZetta Elliott is an award-winning Black feminist writer of poetry\, plays\, essays\, novels\, and stories for children. Her poetry has been published in We Rise\, We Resist\, We Raise Our Voices\, and her picture book\, Bird\, won the Honor Award in Lee & Low Books’ New Voices Contest and the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers. She lives in West Philadelphia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zetta-elliott-on-instagram-igtv/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T150000
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SUMMARY:Prepping to Publish: a workshop for writers of color
DESCRIPTION:Geared toward marginalized writers who may lack access to MFA programs\, workshops\, and conferences\, Prepping to Publish is a six-hour\, two-session intensive. Sonora will select 8 to 12 students based on the quality of their submissions\, and students will leave the course with a formatted manuscript\, a critiqued query letter\, and a tailored list of editors\, journals\, and publishing houses that might be a good home for their work. \n  \nInstructor: \nSONORA JHA\, Ph.D.\, is an essayist\, novelist\, and professor of journalism at Seattle University. She is the author of the novel Foreign (Random House India\, 2013) and the forthcoming How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood\, Masculinity\, and the Making of my Family (Sasquatch Books\, 2021). She teaches fiction and essay writing for the Richard Hugo House and Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat\, and her writing has garnered many awards and residencies. \n  \nThis workshop is part of a three-event collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United in support of writers of color. The events are made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \n  \nFor the other events\, please visit the links below: \n  \nPanel: Creating Our Own Table\, Wednesday\, April 7th\, 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aunt-lute-x-poc-united-presents-the-panel-creating-our-own-table-tickets-133253297199 \n  \nReading: Isolation\, Thursday\, May 13th\, 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aunt-lute-x-poc-united-presents-a-reading-isolation-tickets-133266558865 \n  \n  \nABOUT POC UNITED: \nPOC United is a literary safe space of creative play far removed from the white gaze\, a place where writers of color can focus on one another in solidarity. To showcase multi-genre works by writers of color\, POC United created GRAFFITI\, a bestselling anthology\, which is a Silver Winner of the 22nd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Anthologies. For more on POC United\, please visit pocunited.com. \n  \nFree \n  \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prepping-to-publish-a-workshop-for-writers-of-color/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T160000
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SUMMARY:Children's Book Reading: The Unexpected Friend
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children’s story time featuring a live read-aloud of The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya Children’s Story with author Raya Rahman. \nThe story centers around Faisal\, a young Rohingya boy in a Bangladeshi refugee camp\, who finds a bird with a broken wing and decides to take care of it with his sisters. Life in the camp is not always easy\, so the children are thrilled to have a pet to look after. But as the bird’s wing slowly heals\, they are faced with a difficult choice. Can they let go of something they dearly love? \nRSVP FOR ACCESS TO ZOOM EVENT\nhttps://unexpectedfriend.eventbrite.com \nCopies of The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya Children’s Story are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. \nAbout the Book\nIn the midst of a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh\, Faisal\, a young Rohingya boy\, finds an injured bird and decides to take care of it with his sisters. Life in the camp is not always easy and the children are thrilled to have a pet to look after. But as the bird’s wing slowly heals\, they face the dilemma of holding on to or losing something they dearly love. \nThoughtfully illustrated with detailed imagery\, The Unexpected Friend is a fictional story based on the real lives of Rohingya children living in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar\, Bangladesh. Their individual stories were compiled through the dedicated work of aid agencies Save the Children\, Plan International and World Vision and transformed into a storybook in partnership with Guba Publishing\, for the purpose of gifting it to the children in the camps. \nThe Rohingya are a Muslim minority of 1.3 million\, formerly living in the Rakhine State within Myanmar. Risking death by sea or on foot\, nearly 700\,000 have fled the destruction of their homes and persecution in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma) for neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017. Bangladesh now houses 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp. \nThemed around universal childhood joys that are relatable by all children\, the story helps young children to empathize with situations that are different than their own. With artwork that authentically depicts life in a crowded refugee camp\, ‘The Unexpected Friend – A Rohingya Children’s Story’ is a fitting book to introduce children to social justice\, specifically the worldwide refugee humanitarian crisis. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Save the Children’s Rohingya Relief Fund. \nAbout the Author\nRaya Rahman is the founder of Guba Publishing. After a decade of working in the corporate world\, she now partners with other authors\, illustrators and non-profit organizations to publish diverse and multicultural children’s stories and learning resources. Raya lives in Oakland\, California with her husband and their two spirited daughters\, who were her main inspiration for starting a children’s publishing house. \nAbout the Illustrator\nInshra Russell is the founder of a boutique creative services agency called Studio Inku\, that works in partnership with Guba Publishing to create high quality picture books for children. Inshra is a multi-platform content creator with a portfolio of projects that includes short films\, photography\, illustrations\, graphic design and video production. She lives in London\, U.K. with her husband and their son\, Ruben. Find her on www.studioinku.com. \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/childrens-book-reading-the-unexpected-friend/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:CWC Speaker Series: Sage Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, February 21\, 1-3pm Pacific time \nWhen you don’t know what matters most in your writing life\, it’s hard to focus-and finish. In this live 60-minute workshop\, you will identify your top priority writing project. Then\, you’ll create a simple strategic plan for achieving it. 10 key productivity strategies will help you work smarter\, accomplish more\, and cross each finish line faster. \nYou’ll create your own productivity blueprint that prepares you to:\n1) Put the right (for you) attitudes\, habits\, and practices in place\n2) Leverage your strengths and sustain your momentum\n3) Overcome fear\, resistance\, and procrastination\n4) Gain confidence in your process and your work\n5) Fulfill your #1 writing goal \nSage Cohen helps writers live well\, write well\, and make a bigger impact. She is the author of Fierce on the Page\, The Productive Writer\, and Writing the Life Poetic\, all from Writer’s Digest Books\, and the poetry collection Like the Heart\, the World. Her Focus + Finish process has helped hundreds of writers around the globe clarify what matters – then make it happen. Since 1995\, Sage has been teaching writers at New York University\, at writing conferences throughout the US\, and online at Sage School. Sage holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s degree in poetry from New York University where she was awarded a full fellowship. \nLearn more at www.sagecohen.com. \n$10 For Non-Members; $5 For Members. \nPresented by California Writers Club – Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cwc-speaker-series-sage-cohen/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="California Writers Club - Berkeley":MAILTO:berkeley.cwc@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T183000
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SUMMARY:Evening Literary Seminar: 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
DESCRIPTION:THIS SESSION IS ONLINE\n4.50 from Paddington\, Agatha Christie \nAt long last! Join Kimberly to see why Agatha Christie is just so much fun to read. The most best-selling author of all time\, Christie will delight you not just with well-structured problems to solve\, but with clever\, well-drawn\, lovable characters\, charming description of British mid-century life\, quite a bit of social satire and much wry humor. \n 4.50 has the advantage of showcasing Christie’s wise and unassuming Miss Marple\, along with a cast of strong and unforgettable women. \n Whether you’re a long-time devotee\, or have never read Christie\, join the group for a delightful\, unique reading experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evening-literary-seminar-4-50-from-paddington-by-agatha-christie/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lauren Oyler and Anna Wiener
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, February 22nd at 6pm PT when Lauren Oyler is joined by Anna Weiner to discuss her debut novel\, Fake Accounts\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82633184310\n\nPraise for Fake Accounts\n“This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it.” —Zadie Smith\n\n“Oyler has written a startlingly lucid account of what it does to a person to live a life filled with lies\, why it’s so painful to be unable to trust anything or anyone\, including yourself…I laughed a lot while reading this\, even when—especially when—I very much saw myself as the joke. What Fake Accounts is ultimately asking\, then\, is a question we could all do well to pose to ourselves with some frequency: Who do you think you’re fooling?” ––Kristin Iversen\, Refinery29\, One of the Best New Books of the Year\n\n“Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts is such an ensorcelling blend of insight\, comedy and suspense\, you almost don’t notice yourself being filleted alive in these pages. A note to fellow readers of the twenty-first century: Anyone familiar with the allure of social media will adore this coolly observed novel. A note to fellow writers of the twenty-first century: Oh crap\, she did it.” —Sloane Crosley\, author of Look Alive Out There and I Was Told There’d Be Cake\n\nAbout Fake Accounts\nA woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “incisive” and “funny” debut novel that “brilliantly captures the claustrophobia of lives led online and personae tested in the real world” (Publishers Weekly\, starred review).\n\nOn the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration\, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling discovery: he’s an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist\, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery\, irony\, and outrage\, she’s not exactly shocked by the revelation. Actually\, she’s relieved—he was always a little distant—and she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a trip to the Women’s March in DC. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies.\n\nSuddenly left with no reason to stay in New York and increasingly alienated from her friends and colleagues\, our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin\, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life\, from dating apps to expat meetups\, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. She begins to think she can’t trust anyone—shouldn’t the feeling be mutual?\n\nNarrated with seductive confidence and subversive wit\, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community\, delusions and gaslighting\, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lauren-oyler-and-anna-wiener-2/
LOCATION:online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T200000
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SUMMARY:Bill Zarchy - Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Equal parts time travel tale\, thriller\, and baseball saga\, Bill Zarchy’s debut novel Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale is a gripping\, humorous\, and entertaining look at what happens when past and present collide in the 9th inning\, with the bases loaded and no one warming up in the bullpen. \nOn a freezing night in 1778\, General George Washington vanishes. Walking away from the Valley Forge encampment\, he takes a fall and is knocked unconscious\, only to reappear at a park near San Francisco—during the summer of 2014. Washington befriends two Berkeley twenty-somethings who help him cope with the astonishing—and often comical—surprises of the twenty-first century. \nWashington’s absence from Valley Forge\, however\, is not without serious consequences. As the world rapidly devolves around them—and their beloved Giants fight to salvage a disappointing season—George\, Tim\, and Matt are catapulted on a race across America to find a way to get George back to 1778. \n“I grew up fascinated by the presidents—and Washington in particular\,” recalls author Bill Zarchy. “George became my touchstone for trying to understand the alluring technology of my mid-century boyhood—aviation\, photography\, trains\, cars\, rockets\, satellites\, television\, movies: How would I explain this to George Washington\, if he were to come back to life right now?” Zarchy continues\, “I originally thought of this as a comic\, fish-out-of-water story\, but as I learned more about my subject\, so much emerged about George: A charismatic leader\, but a soft-spoken\, uninspiring orator. A courageous man\, who endured the burden of dental pain throughout his life. A powerful\, ambitious man\, but a kind\, gentle husband and stepfather. A 6’ 2” giant\, at a time when most men were much shorter. A skillful horseman\, a graceful dancer\, a man’s man who enjoyed the company of women. Perhaps most significantly\, like most of the Founding Fathers\, he was a slave owner\, though history establishes that Washington\, privately\, had at least a dawning awareness that slavery was evil and immoral.” \nBill Zarchy filmed projects on six continents during his 40 years as a cinematographer\, captured in his first book\, Showdown at Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil. Now he writes novels\, takes photos\, and talks of many things. His career includes filming three former presidents for the Emmy-winning West Wing Documentary Special\, the Grammy-winning Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em\, feature films Conceiving Ada and Read You Like A Book\, PBS science series Closer to Truth\, musical performances as diverse as the Grateful Dead\, Weird Al Yankovic\, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle\, and countless high-end projects for technology and medical companies. His tales from the road\, personal essays\, and technical articles have appeared in Travelers’ Tales and Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies\, the San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers\, and American Cinematographer\, Emmy\, and other trade magazines. Bill has a BA in Government from Dartmouth and an MA in Film from Stanford. He taught Advanced Cinematography at San Francisco State for twelve years. He is a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of the EPIC Storytelling Program at Stagebridge in Oakland. This is his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-zarchy-finding-george-washington-a-time-travel-tale-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lauren Oyler and Anna Wiener
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, FEBRUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN LAUREN OYLER IS JOINED BY ANNA WIENER TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, FAKE ACCOUNTS\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82633184310\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82633184310#  or +12532158782\,\,82633184310#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd9BjI5wzd \nPraise for Fake Accounts \n“This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it.” —Zadie Smith \n“Oyler has written a startlingly lucid account of what it does to a person to live a life filled with lies\, why it’s so painful to be unable to trust anything or anyone\, including yourself…I laughed a lot while reading this\, even when—especially when—I very much saw myself as the joke. What Fake Accounts is ultimately asking\, then\, is a question we could all do well to pose to ourselves with some frequency: Who do you think you’re fooling?” ––Kristin Iversen\, Refinery29\, One of the Best New Books of the Year \n“Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts is such an ensorcelling blend of insight\, comedy and suspense\, you almost don’t notice yourself being filleted alive in these pages. A note to fellow readers of the twenty-first century: Anyone familiar with the allure of social media will adore this coolly observed novel. A note to fellow writers of the twenty-first century: Oh crap\, she did it.” —Sloane Crosley\, author of Look Alive Out There and I Was Told There’d Be Cake \nAbout Fake Accounts \nA woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “incisive” and “funny” debut novel that “brilliantly captures the claustrophobia of lives led online and personae tested in the real world” (Publishers Weekly\, starred review). \nOn the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration\, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling discovery: he’s an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist\, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery\, irony\, and outrage\, she’s not exactly shocked by the revelation. Actually\, she’s relieved—he was always a little distant—and she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a trip to the Women’s March in DC. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies. \nSuddenly left with no reason to stay in New York and increasingly alienated from her friends and colleagues\, our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin\, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life\, from dating apps to expat meetups\, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. She begins to think she can’t trust anyone—shouldn’t the feeling be mutual? \nNarrated with seductive confidence and subversive wit\, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community\, delusions and gaslighting\, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lauren-oyler-and-anna-wiener/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T200000
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SUMMARY:Tanya Selvaratnam - Assume Nothing (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In Assume Nothing\, award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman\, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America. \nWhen Tanya Selvaratnam met then New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the Democratic National Convention in July 2016\, they seemed like the perfect match. Both were Harvard alumni; both studied Chinese; both were interested in spirituality and meditation\, both were well-connected rising stars in their professions—Selvaratnam in entertainment and the art world; Schneiderman in law and politics. \nBehind closed doors\, however\, Tanya’s life was anything but ideal. Schneiderman became controlling\, mean\, and manipulative. He drank heavily and used sedatives. Sex turned violent\, and he called Tanya—who was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Southern California—his “brown slave.” He isolated and manipulated her\, even threatening to kill her if she tried to leave. \nTwenty-five percent of women in America are victims of domestic abuse. Tanya never thought she would be a part of this statistic. Growing up\, she witnessed her father physically and emotionally abuse her mother. Tanya knew the patterns and signs of domestic violence\, and did not see herself as remotely vulnerable. Yet what seemed impossible was suddenly a terrifying reality: she was trapped in a violent relationship with one of the most powerful men in New York. \nSensitive and nuanced\, written with the gripping power of a dark psychological thriller\, Assume Nothing details how Tanya’s relationship devolved into abuse\, how she found the strength to leave—risking her career\, reputation\, and life—and how she reclaimed her freedom and her voice. In sharing her story\, Tanya analyzes the insidious way women from all walks of life learn to accept abuse\, and redefines what it means to be a victim of intimate violence. \nTanya Selvaratnam is the author of The Big Lie: Motherhood\, Feminism\, and the Reality of the Biological Clock. Her essays have been published in the New York Times\, Vogue\, The Art Newspaper\, SheKnows\, Glamour\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, and on CNN\, and she has been a fellow at Yaddo and Blue Mountain Center. She is an Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning Filmmaker\, and she has been a producer for Aubin Pictures\, For Freedoms\, Glamour Women of the Year\, the Meteor\, Planned Parenthood\, and the Vision & Justice Project. \nTiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker\, founder of the Webby Awards\, and author of the national bestselling book 24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time\, Creativity\, and Connection\, winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. Her spoken cinema performance Dear Human premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Find more at tiffanyshlain.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tanya-selvaratnam-assume-nothing-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents the launch for Dr. Euan Angus Ashley / The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with Dr. Euan Angus Ashley for his new book The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The Genome Odyssey here. We’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nSince the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003\, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate. It’s as if the price of a Ferrari went from $350\,000 to a mere forty cents. Through breakthroughs made by Dr. Ashley’s team at Stanford and other dedicated groups around the world\, analyzing the human genome has decreased from a heroic multibillion dollar effort to a single clinical test costing less than $1\,000. \nFor the first time we have within our grasp the ability to predict our genetic future\, to diagnose and prevent disease before it begins\, and to decode what it really means to be human. \nIn The Genome Odyssey\, Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome sequencing with clarity and accessibility. More than that\, with passion for his subject and compassion for his patients\, he introduces readers to the dynamic group of researchers and doctor detectives who hunt for answers\, and to the pioneering patients who open up their lives to the medical community during their search for diagnoses and cures. \nHe describes how he led the team that was the first to analyze and interpret a complete human genome\, how they broke genome speed records to diagnose and treat a newborn baby girl whose heart stopped five times on the first day of her life\, and how they found a boy with tumors growing inside his heart and traced the cause to a missing piece of his genome. \nThese patients inspire Dr. Ashley and his team as they work to expand the boundaries of our medical capabilities and to envision a future where genome sequencing is available for all\, where medicine can be tailored to treat specific diseases and to decode pathogens like viruses at the genomic level\, and where our medical system as we know it has been completely revolutionized. \nAbout the author\nEuan Ashley is a Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University. He was born in Scotland and graduated from the University of Glasgow. He attended Oxford University\, completing a PhD there before moving to Stanford University where he trained in Cardiology. He joined the Stanford faculty\, where he led the team that carried out the first medical interpretation of a human genome. Ashley has received awards from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association. He was recognized by the Obama White House and received the Medal of Honor from the American Heart Association. \nHis articles have appeared in the many journals\, including Lancet\, the New England Journal of Medicine\, the Journal of the American Medical Association\, Nature and Cell. He appears regularly on local and national radio and TV. He is the founder of three companies and advisor to several Silicon Valley companies. With three young children\, he spends his spare time trying to understand American football\, play the saxophone\, and conduct research on the health benefits of single malt Scotch whisky. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-berkeley-arts-letters-presents-the-launch-for-dr-euan-angus-ashley-the-genome-odyssey-medical-mysteries-and-the-incredible-quest-to-solve-them/
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