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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Wallace Baine & Steve Kettmann
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for a reading featuring Wallace Baine and Steve Kettmann. The Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links\, including for this event\, will be emailed to you. \nThis event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post\, and presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-wallace-baine-steve-kettmann/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T130000
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SUMMARY:Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #2
DESCRIPTION:Struggling to process and confront anti-Black and anti-Asian racism within your social networks? Explore the healing power of creative writing! \nThe July 25th workshop focuses on “Stand Together – Creativity and Social Justice” \nEth-Noh-Tec storytellers Robert Kikuchi Yngojo and Nancy Wang\, poet Jennifer Hasegawa\, poet/KFPFA journalist Dennis J Bernstein\, poet/musician/KPFA & POO DJ Avotcja discuss how social justice informs their art. \nParticipants will be invited to engage in creative writing exercises around questions like: What arts do you resonate with and why? What are your creative outlets? If I could\, this is the story I’d tell. \nParticipants will be invited to engage in creative writing exercises around questions like: What are you thinking and feeling right now? How were you personally impacted by George Floyd’s murder and subsequent events. Have you personally experienced or witnessed anti-black or anti-Asian racism? What was your response? How would you respond differently today? How do you respond to stress? What are you doing for self-care? How to deal with parents and peer pressure? \nNOTE: The workshop will be hosted on Zoom and YouTube Live with a sliding scale fee of $5~$15 to help support our presenters\, organizers\, tech and labor costs. If you are interested in participating but are unable to afford the lowest ticketing tier\, please email programs@oacc.cc and we would be happy to work with you on making this event accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/healing-around-race-creative-writing-workshop-2/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T150000
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind’s (virtual) Book Club! \nIn light of recent events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement\, our July Book Club selection is Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal. \nNew to the Movement? Fear not! Whether you’ve had many conversations about Black Lives Matter or this will be your first one\, we welcome you all to join us as we learn and grow together. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Saturday\, July 25 at 3pm. Register to receive the meeting link. \nJoin our Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub \nBook Club members can use coupon code BOOKCLUB2020 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD). \n~ \nAbout the Book:\nIn December 1981\, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed\, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness. \nIn Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?\, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse\, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America\, with its origins in the white slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country’s black population. Applying a personal\, historical\, and political lens\, Mumia provides a righteously angry and calmly principled radical black perspective on how racist violence is tearing our country apart and what must be done to turn things around. \nAbout the author:\nMumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of two best-selling books\, Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms\, which address prison life from a critical and spiritual perspective. In 1981 he was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists (Philadelphia chapter). That year he was arrested for allegedly killing a white police officer in Philadelphia. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982. In 2011\, after spending more than 28 years on death row\, his death sentence was vacated when the Supreme Court allowed to stand the decisions of four federal judges who had earlier declared his death sentence unconstitutional. He is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In spite of his three-decade-long imprisonment\, Abu-Jamal has relentlessly fought for his freedom and for his profession. From prison he has written seven books and thousands of radio commentaries. He holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University\, Dominguez Hills.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-have-black-lives-ever-mattered/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T190000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: (em)Power(ment)
DESCRIPTION:POWER. EMPOWER. EMPOWERMENT. Take your pick. This month SNS explores all kinds of power. From self-empowerment\, to empowering others\, to the powers that be\, to historical power. Personal\, political\, righteous\, economic\, systemic\, authoritarian\, power for good or ill. You can go big or small. The power to pick up the pen\, speak out\, make art\, make dinner\, change and grow\, the power to vote\, the power to choose. Choose what moves you. Share what empowers you. Or what has disempowered you. Write something new. Or don’t. I’m not the boss of you. \nShare your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nJULY FEATURES: Thea Matthews & Cassandra Dallett \nSATURDAY\, JULY 25\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm\nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on July 18. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. \nTo sign up\, put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max. \nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, RSVP on FB\, and use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to host\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. \nWe will be using the Waiting Room feature and only letting in people we can verify. \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 969 9282 4045\nPassword: 838791 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/96992824045?pwd=N215UTFaTUFaUUV5VUhadUc2Q1ZOUT09\nPassword: 838791 \nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,96992824045# \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nBorn and raised in San Francisco\, California\, Thea Matthews is a queer Black Indigenous Mexican poet\, black feminist\, educator\, and activist. She writes on the complexities of humanity\, grief\, and resiliency. Her debut poetry collection Unearth [The Flowers] was published by Red Light Lit Press in 2020; and she has work published in Atlanta Review\, Foglifter Journal\, The Rumpus\, and others. Currently\, she is an MFA candidate for Poetry at New York University; and is the poetry editor for For Women Who Roar™. More info at www.theamatthews.com \nCassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published in over a hundred anthologies and journals. \nCassandra reads often around the Bay Area\, hosts the monthly writing workshop On Two Six\, is a facilitator at MOWW\, (Mills Oakland Writers Workshop) hosts The Badass Bookworm Podcast\, (iTunes\, Spotify\, Soundcloud\, Stitcher\, YouTube) and co-hosts and co-curates the quarterly reading series MoonDrop Productions with Kelechi Ubozoh\, as well as her own monthly Oakland based reading series\, The Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft. \nAfter three self-published chapbooks Cassandra Dallett’s first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless(Manic D Press) was released in 2014. In 2015\, she authored five chapbooks\, one of them\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a California Book Award\, 2018 brought the release of another full-length collection\, Collapse\, also on Nomadic Press\, also nominated for a CA Book Award. Her most recent book\, A Pretty Little Wilderness has just been released from Be About It Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-empowerment/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Dan Pfeiffer\, Un-Trumping America
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Dan Pfeiffer—White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013)\, Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015)\, and co-host of Pod Save America—for an online discussion with Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend about his book\, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again. This ticketed\, online event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and is cosponsored by Santa Cruz Indivisible. It will take place on the Crowdcast platform. \nPLEASE NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for March\, but was postponed due to Covid-19. If you already purchased tickets for the original event\, you are entitled to entry to this virtual event. If you purchased your tickets online\, please check your inbox for an email from Bookshop with information or click here. If you purchased your tickets in the store\,  please fill out the form linked here to register for the new online event. \nTickets for this virtual event are available for purchase on Eventbrite—click here! \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author\, cohost of Pod Save America\, and one of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors: a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump\, McConnell\, Fox News\, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics. \nThere is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020\, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: First\, Trump is not an aberration\, but rather the logical extension of the modern Republican Party; second\, how Democrats can defeat Trump in 2020; and third\, preventing the likes of Trump from ever happening again with a plan to fix democracy. \nDan Pfeiffer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and a cohost on Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors\, he was White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013) and Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015). He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife\, Howli\, and their daughter\, Kyla.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dan-pfeiffer-un-trumping-america/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200726T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Lindsay Ellis\, Axiom's End
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Hugo-nominated video essayist Lindsay Ellis\, who will discuss her debut novel\, Axiom’s End—an alternate history first contact adventure set in the early 2000’s\, pitched as Stranger Things meets Arrival. This will be a ticketed virtual event. Details to come. \nRegister for this ticketed Crowdcast soon!\nBy the fall of 2007\, one well-timed leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in first contact has sent the country into turmoil\, and it is all Cora Sabino can do to avoid the whole mess. The force driving this controversy is Cora’s whistleblower father\, and even though she hasn’t spoken to him in years\, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press\, the Internet\, the paparazzi\, and the government–and redirected it to her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father’s leaks are a hoax\, and wants nothing to do with him–until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up\, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades. \nTo save her own life\, she offers her services as an interpreter to a monster\, and the monster accepts. \nLearning the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to\, she sets out to gather as much information as she can\, and finds that the best way for her to find the truth is not as a whistleblower\, but as an intermediary. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter\, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication. But in becoming an interpreter\, she begins to realize that she has become the voice for a being she cannot ever truly know or understand\, and starts to question who she’s speaking for–and what future she’s setting up for all of humanity. \nLINDSAY ELLIS is an author and video essayist who creates humorous educational online content about media\, narrative\, and film theory\, and also co-writes and co-hosts the fiction-focused web series “It’s Lit!” for PBS Digital Studios. After earning her bachelor’s in Cinema Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, she earned her MFA in Film and Television Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts with a focus in documentary and screenwriting. She lives in Long Beach\, CA. \n“Axiom’s End is somehow deeply aware of not just what it is to be human\, but what it is to be any intelligent species. It’s as real as any first-contact story I have ever read. Wonderfully plotted and paced\, the adventure never lets up\, and neither does the insight.” —Hank Green\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lindsay-ellis-axioms-end/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200727T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200727T143000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Anne Applebaum / Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Anne Applebaum for her new book\, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. Please note our early start time of 12pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: If you’d like to support the store while we are otherwise closed in the interest of public health\, you can do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy a gift certificate\, which never expires.\n> Make a donation. \nA Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains\, with electrifying clarity\, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults\, nationalist movements\, or one-party states. \nAcross the world today\, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond\, liberal democracy is under siege while different forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy\, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum argues that we should not be surprised by this change: There is an inherent appeal to political systems with radically simple beliefs\, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. \nPeople are not just ideological\, she contends in this captivating extended essay; they are also practical\, pragmatic\, opportunist. The authoritarian and nationalist parties that have arisen within modern democracies offer new paths to wealth or power for their adherents. Describing politicians\, journalists\, intellectuals\, and others who have abandoned democratic ideals in the UK\, U.S.\, Spain\, Poland\, and Hungary\, Applebaum reveals the patterns that link the new advocates of illiberalism and charts how they use conspiracy theory\, political polarization\, social media\, and nostalgia to change their societies. \n\nAnne Applebaum was one of the first journalists to raise the alarm about Russian interference in U.S. elections and antidemocratic trends in Europe. Her 2018 Atlantic article\, “A Warning from Europe\,” inspired this book and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. After seventeen years as a columnist at The Washington Post\, she became a staff writer at The Atlantic in January 2020. She is the author of three critically acclaimed and award-winning histories of the Soviet Union: Red Famine\, Iron Curtain\, and Gulag\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-anne-applebaum-twilight-of-democracy-the-seductive-lure-of-authoritarianism/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200727T190000
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SUMMARY:Laurie Halse Anderson and Leila del Duca
DESCRIPTION:From an unstoppable warrior to a struggling teenage refugee\, get ready to see Wonder Woman in a new light. \n\n\n\n\nThis is an Online Event. \nNew York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak\, Shout) and artist Leila del Duca have reimagined Wonder Woman’s origins in this timely story about the refugee experience\, teenage activism\, and finding the love and strength to create change. \nPrincess Diana of Themyscira believes that her 16th birthday will be one of new beginnings⁠— namely\, acceptance into the warrior tribe of the Amazons. But her birthday celebrations are cut short when rafts carrying refugees break through the barrier that separates her island home from the outside world. When Diana defies the Amazons to try to bring the outsiders to safety\, she finds herself swept away by the stormy sea. Cut off from everything she’s ever known\, Diana herself becomes a refugee in an unfamiliar land. Now Diana must survive in the world beyond Themyscira for the first time–a world that is filled with danger and injustice unlike anything she’s ever experienced. With new battles to be fought and new friends to be made\, she must redefine what it means to belong\, to be an Amazon\, and to make a difference. in a story about growing into one’s strength\, fighting for justice\, and finding home. \nWonder Woman: Tempest Tossed is more than a reboot of Wonder Woman’s origin story\, weaving in real-world issues like refugee crises and child trafficking. \n\n\n\n\nLaurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times-bestselling author known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity. Two of her books\, Speak and Chains\, were National Book Award finalists\, and Chains was also short-listed for the UK’s Carnegie medal. She was selected by the American Library Association for the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her significant contribution to young adult literature. Laurie has also been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. She is a member of RAINN’s National Leadership Council and frequently speaks about sexual violence. \nLeila del Duca is a comic book artist and writer who draws Sleepless\, Shutter and writes Afar at Image Comics. Leila has drawn for titles such as The Wicked + The Divine\, Scarlet Witch\, American Vampire\, and The Pantheon Project. In 2015 and 2016\, Leila was nominated for the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award for her work on Shutter. \nJoin us as we discuss all things Wonder Woman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-halse-anderson-and-leila-del-duca/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200728T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Marie Mutsuki Mockett and Ethan Nosowsky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 28 at 5pm PDT when Marie Mutsuki Mockett discusses her new book\, American Harvest: God\, Country\, and Farming in the Heartland\, with Ethan Nosowsky on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82971702082 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82971702082#  or +12532158782\,\,82971702082#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 829 7170 2082\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcpi8FxVYp\n \nPraise for American Harvest \n“Books enable readers to broaden their lives\, and this one—in which Marie Mutsuki Mockett joins a crew harvesting wheat—is a doozy\, as Studs Terkel’s were. . . . I never knew a person on a wheat-harvesting crew\, and now I do\, thanks to Mockett’s vivid and true account.”—Annie Dillard \n“An extraordinary feat of empathy set against a land of reds\, whites\, and blues\, American Harvest doesn’t just speak to the great divide—it dares to bridge it.”—Marlon James \n“Mockett\, writing with a gentle self-consciousness\, offers a compassionate portrait of conservative evangelicals\, along with lucid musings on agricultural science\, Native American history\, and the quiet majesty of the Great Plains.”—The New Yorker \nAbout American Harvest \nAn epic story of the American wheat harvest\, the politics of food\, and the culture of the Great Plains \nFor over one hundred years\, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska\, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett\, who grew up in bohemian Carmel\, California\, with her father and her Japanese mother\, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. \nIn American Harvest\, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth\, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho\, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide\,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields\, attends church\, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life\, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white\,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. \nAmerican Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs\, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity\, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-marie-mutsuki-mockett-and-ethan-nosowsky/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200728T180000
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SUMMARY:Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors\, Jon Sack\, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) \ncelebrating his new graphic novel \nWindows on the World \nCo-authored with Zack Anderson \nIllustrations by Jon Sack \npublished by Fantagraphics Books \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———— \n(Click Here) to make reservations.\nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———— \nThe book for this event may be purchased at this link : \n>Purchase WINDOWS ON THE WORLD here< \n————- \nSet in a New York City in mourning\, this poignant graphic novel explores the push-and-pull between love and obligation. \nOn the morning of September 11\, 2001\, an undocumented worker named Balthazar busses tables at New York City’s famous Windows on the World restaurant. Back in Mexico\, his family watches their TV screen in horror as the Twin Towers collapse. Refusing to give up hope that Balthazar is alive\, his son Fernando embarks on a treacherous journey across the border to New York to find him. Along the way\, Fernando learns what it means to be undocumented in America — encountering at turns an indifferent bureaucracy and a supportive group of fellow immigrants who help guide him through his quixotic mission to bring his family back together. \nNow a major motion picture! \nRobert Mailer Anderson is a San Francisco Library Laureate as well as a novelist\, screenwriter\, producer\, and activist. He is the author of the novel Boonville. \nJon Sack is a US and UK based artist and writer whose comic books include La Lucha and Iraqi Oil For Beginners. \nJacqueline Obradors is an actor and has appeared in numerous feature film that include Six Days\, Seven Nights (1998)\,  Deuce Bigalow:Male Gigolo (1999)\, Tortilla Soup (2001)\, A Man Apart(2003) and Unstoppable (2004). She has also appeared on the television crime drama NYPD Blue (2001–2005.) She is currently featured on the TV series Bosch and will be starring in the forthcoming film “Palm Springs.” \nJay Walsh play Vocals\, Guitars\, and Piano for the musical combo DOUGLAS FIR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-mailer-anderson-friends-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOKS & BREWS: Colin Dickey\, The Unidentified
DESCRIPTION:Our popular Books + Brews summer event series returns in a modified form this season. For the first of two events\, we are teaming up with Discretion Brewing to host an online event with Colin Dickey\, author of The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters\, Alien Encounters\, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained. Tune into our Crowdcast event from the comfort of home while you enjoy one of Discretion’s tasty beverages—they suggest their Book Club Pale Ale will pair beautifully with the book that Publishers Weekly calls\, “A thought-provoking and deliciously unsettling guide into the stranger corners of American culture.” (Shipping and book/beer pick up options to come.)\n\n\nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here. \nAmerica’s favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country’s most persistent “unexplained” phenomena… \nIn a world where rational\, scientific explanations are more available than ever\, belief in the unprovable and irrational—in fringe—is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens\, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster\, it seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in\, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey\, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics\, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America’s wildest fringe beliefs—from the famed Mount Shasta where the ancient race (or extra-terrestrials\, or possibly both\, depending on who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam\, to the museum containing the last remaining “evidence” of the great Kentucky Meat Shower—investigating how these theories come about\, why they take hold\, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best: curious\, wry\, brilliant in his analysis\, yet eminently readable. \nColin Dickey is a writer\, speaker\, and academic\, and has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He’s a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham’s Quarterly\, and is the co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death\, a collective of artists\, writers\, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world’s relationship with mortality. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California\, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-books-brews-colin-dickey-the-unidentified/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich discusses his latest book\, The Desert Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Ben Ehrenreich visits Point Reyes to discuss his new book\, Desert Notebooks (Counterpoint). \nPresented in conjunction with Mesa Refuge. \nAbout Desert Notebooks\nNational Magazine Award winner and The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich layers climate science\, mythologies\, nature writing\, and personal experiences into a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. \nDesert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene\, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time–the pasts we have erased and paved over\, this anxious present\, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. \nIn the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse\, Ehrenreich finds beauty\, and even hope\, surging up in the most unlikely places\, from the most barren rocks\, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present–unflinching\, urgent–and yet timeless and profound. \n“Ehrenreich’s Mojave is both eternal and despoiled\, a measuring rod for the apocalypse\, and proof that nature abides. Progress\, he explains to us\, is like one of those strange paved streets in the desert running through phantom\, unbuilt subdivisions. The pavement ends abruptly\, and we find ourselves lost in the furnace-hot badlands of the Present where time and meaning are twisted into enigmatic and terrifying forms that recall the end-time visions of cultures vanquished by ‘civilization.’ This haunting meditation on terminal capitalism and its unthinkable future clearly establishes its author as one of our greatest essayists\, wholly contemporary with these strange times.” —Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz \nAbout Ben Ehrenreich\nBen Ehrenreich writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, and The Los Angeles Times. He has reported from Afghanistan\, Haiti\, Cambodia\, El Salvador\, and Mexico. In 2011\, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. He is the author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine\, one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ben-ehrenreich-writer-discusses-his-latest-book-the-desert-notebooks/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Beach Read by Emily Henry | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, July 28\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Emily Henry’s new novel\, BEACH READ. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89360940741. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPBeachRead\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/GGPBeachReadAB. \nJune 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“What do you get when you cross a disillusioned romance author with a Hemingway wannabe? A compulsively readable book where you kind of hope for your train to be delayed so you can spend a few more minutes with January and Gus. These two\, saddled with writer’s block\, make a pact to write the other’s genre. Literary snobbery is (rightfully) called out\, and the two begin to navigate a friendship outside of writing as they explore the other’s process. Reader\, I loved it.”\n— Audrey Huang\, Belmont Books\, Belmont\, MA \nDescription\n\nTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! \n“Original\, sparkling bright\, and layered with feeling…”—Sally Thorne\, author of The Hating Game \nA romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. \nAugustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after\, he kills off his entire cast. \nThey’re polar opposites. \nIn fact\, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months\, they’re living in neighboring beach houses\, broke\, and bogged down with writer’s block. \nUntil\, one hazy evening\, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy\, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage\, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really. \nAbout the Author\n\nEmily Henry writes stories about love and family for both teens and adults. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the New York Center for Art & Media Studies\, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites. \nPraise For…\n\n“Once I started Beach Read I legit did not put it down.”—Betches \nOne of… \nThe New York Times Book Review’s Summer Romance Reads\nEntertainment Weekly’s Hottest Summer Reads of 2020\nOprah Magazine’s Best Beach Reads of Summer 2020\nBetches’ 20 Books to Read in 2020\nSheReads’ Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020\nGoodreads’ Big Books of Spring\nPopsugar’s 25 Exciting New Books Coming Out in May\nBustle’s Most Anticipated May Titles\nShondaland’s Five Books to Read in May\nTheSkimm’s 11 Buzzy Books for Your Imaginary Beach Bag\nGood Morning America’s 25 Novels You’ll Want to Read this Summer\nThe New York Post’s Required Reading\nGood Housekeeping’s 25 Best Beach Reads\nHuffington Post’s Best Books to Read during Quarantine\nCNN’s Perfect Summer Reads\nLitHub’s Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List\nBookRiot’s 6 Captivating New Books \n“Reader\, I swooned!  Beach Read is a breath of fresh air. My heart ached for January\, and Gus is to die for – a steamy\, smart and perceptive romance. I was engrossed!”—Josie Silver\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beach-read-by-emily-henry-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gene Luen Yang--virtually!
DESCRIPTION:discussing Dragon Hoops\, his latest graphic novel\, in which he turns the spotlight on his life\, his family\, and Bishop O’Dowd High School\, where he taught for 17 years. Mrs. Dalloway’s is delighted to partner with Bishop O’Dowd for this event. See below for registration instructions and how to order your copy of Dragon Hoops. See you on the court! \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, July 29\, 2020 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nDragon Hoops centers on a legendary season of Dragon basketball\, and carries important messages about belonging\, character\, and how relationships and shared identity define heroism as a team sport. It’s also the story of sports victory in the Dragon basketball team’s long quest to win the California State Championship. \nSponsored by Bishop O’Dowd\, Yang will be in conversation with Coach Lou Richie (’89)\, also a character in the novel\, and art teacher Thien Pham\, a fellow graphic novelist and friend of Yang. The characters include members of the 2015-2016 Men’s and Women’s basketball teams\, some of whom may make guest appearances during the discussion! \nJoin online for an afternoon of hoops and comics as Yang shares the experience of creating a graphic novel rooted in his love for O’Dowd\, basketball\, and the relationships that make a community\, team\, and victory. Registration is free\, but required. A link to the event will be emailed after you complete your registration: \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsIhB6LJF_NMoBg_LknhhDZPghwtL3Kxmt34eI3DYz0L0GBA/viewform
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gene-luen-yang-virtually/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200729T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200729T200000
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SUMMARY:Eric Utne
DESCRIPTION:celebrating his new book \nFar Out Man: Tales of Life in the Counterculture \npublished by Random House \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———– \nFar Out Man is the story of a life-long seeker who was occasionally a finder as well. In 1984\, Eric Utne founded Utne Reader\, a digest of new ideas and fresh perspectives percolating in the arts\, culture\, politics\, business\, and spirituality. With the tag line “The Best of the Alternative Press\,” the magazine was twice a finalist for a National Magazine Award and grew to more than 300\,000 paid circulation. In the nineties\, the magazine promoted the Neighborhood Salon Association to revive the endangered art of conversation and start a revolution in people’s living rooms. More than 18\,000 people joined\, comprising nearly 500 salons across North America. Utne devoted the magazine to bringing people together to help make the world a “little greener and a little kinder.” \nFar Out Man serves as a chronicle of both an individual life and a generation\, covering the conflicts of the Vietnam era\, the hopes and excesses of the sexual revolution and the Me Decade\, the idealism and depredations of the entrepreneurial eighties and nineties\, and the promise and perils of the digital age. Ultimately\, Far Out Man is the story of Eric Utne’s lifelong search for hope\, how he lost it\, and what he found on the other side that sustains him in his darkest moments. It is a book dedicated to helping all seekers become finders. \n\n\n\nEric Utne\, founder of the eponymous Utne Reader\, is a journalist\, publisher\, and social entrepreneur. His name has been a New York Times crossword puzzle answer more than seventy times since 1994. Prior to starting Utne Reader\, Utne managed a natural foods store\, studied acupuncture and Chinese medicine\, and was a literary agent and small business consultant. After leaving the magazine in 2000\, he became the seventh-grade class teacher in an inner-city Waldorf school. In 2006\, he was elected to the executive committee of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. He is a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing\, where he co-authored a series of courses on the social and environmental dimensions of health and well-being. Utne earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental design from the University of Minnesota. He is the father of four and grandfather of five\, and makes his home in St. Paul\, Minnesota. \n\n\nWhat has been said about Far Out Man: \n“What a fascinating book—Eric Utne has been the Zelig of the counterculture\, arriving early again and again at the place where the non-mainstream is flowing. He tells the story with verve and command; it’s a remarkable piece of social history.”—Bill McKibben\, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? \n“Far Out Man will take you on a journey\, not just through one man’s life\, but through a pivotal time in American and world history. Always honest\, often funny\, sometimes profound\, Eric Utne’s life story shows us how we got here and even where we might go next. His journey will resonate with people from his generation and beyond.”—Paul Kingsnorth\, author of The Wake and Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist \n“In this ardent memoir\, Utne\, founder of the Utne Reader\, frames his life as an American archetype: the young man seeking happiness\, community\, and meaning. Utne details his explorations in a conversational tone\, with evocative stories. . . . The narrative is generally riveting thanks to its insight into multiple alternative cultural movements of the past half century. . . . Utne’s earnestness and honesty are charming. Readers will find this an entertaining personal testament.”—Publishers Weekly \n“A memoir of tenderness and truth\, honesty and humor\, but far more than this: It is a rare gift to the reader\, a how-to manual on the art of living. . . . I absolutely love it.”—Jay Griffiths\, author of Savage Grace: A Journey in Wildness \n“No better guide to the past half-century could be found than Eric Utne. His journey\, like that of the magazine he founded\, touches on everything important in those turbulent times.”—Kirkpatrick Sale\, author of The Collapse of 2020
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-utne/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Esther Kinsky and Claire-Louise Bennett Two writers discuss Grove: A Field Novel
DESCRIPTION:Esther Kinsky and Claire-Louise Bennett join us via Zoom to discuss Grove: A Field Novel (Transit Books). \nThis event is presented in partnership with Brookline Booksmith’s Transnational Literature Series and the Goethe Institute. \nRegistration required. Visit Eventbrite to reserve your spot. \nAbout Grove\nAn unnamed narrator\, recently bereaved\, travels to a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter\, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery\, she embarks on walks and outings\, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. Seeing\, describing\, naming the world around her is her way of redefining her place within it. In Kinsky’s Grove\, winner of the 2018 Leipzig Book Prize\, grief must bear the weight of the world and full of grief the narrator becomes one with the brittle manifestations of the Italian winter. \n“Grove is a story of an existence stilled by loss\, but the promise of life\, and with it renewal and hope\, pulses gently but steadily at its heart.”—Lucy Scholes\, Financial Times \nAbout the authors\nEsther Kinsky grew up by the River Rhine and lived in London for twelve years. She is the author of three volumes of poetry and four novels\, including River\, and has translated many notable English (John Clare\, Henry David Thoreau\, Iain Sinclair) and Polish (Joanna Bator\, Miron Białoszewski\, Magdalena Tulli) authors into German. Grove won the Leipzig Book Prize and the Düsseldorf Book Prize. \nClaire-Louise Bennett was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and went on to complete her debut book\, Pond\, which was published by The Stinging Fly (Ireland) and Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) in 2015\, and by Riverhead (US) in 2016. Pond was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esther-kinsky-and-claire-louise-bennett-two-writers-discuss-grove-a-field-novel/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Peter Orner and Maggie Brown & Others
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful and virtuosic collection of 44 interlocking stories\, each one “a marvel of concision and compassion” (Washington Post)\, Peter Orner chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points\, gripping us with a series of defining moments. Whether it’s a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar\, or a family’s memories of the painful mystery surrounding a neglected uncle’s demise\, Orner reveals how our fleeting decisions between kindness and abandonment chase us across time. These stories are anchored by a poignant novella that delivers not only the joys and travails of a 40-year marriage\, but an entire era in a working-class New England city. “A master of his form” —The New York Times. Peter Orner reads from and discusses his work\, with bestselling illustrator Paul Madonna. Registration via Eventbrite required to access Zoom. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Zoom and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nPaul Madonna\nPaul Madonna is an award-winning artist and writer. He is the creator of three series\, All Over Coffee (San Francisco Chronicle 2004-2016)\, Small Potatoes (Universal Press Syndicate)\, and Quotable City (Nob Hill Gazette 2018-present)\, and the author of four books\, All Over Coffee… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nPeter Orner\nPeter Orner\, a two-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize\, is the author of five previous books\, including the novel Love and Shame and Love and the collection Esther Stories\, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His memoir Am I Alone Here? was a finalist for the National Book Critics… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-peter-orner-and-maggie-brown-others/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aimee Bender\, The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) for an online reading and discussion of her first novel in ten years\, The Butterfly Lampshade. “[An] astounding meditation on time\, space\, mental illness\, and family. . . Bender’s masterpiece is one to savor.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nOn the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode\, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter\, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she’s sleeping\, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes\, Francie spies a dead butterfly\, exactly matching the ones on the lamp\, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. \nTwenty years later\, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment\, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper\, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact – she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty\, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her\, and what they say about her own place in the world. \nAs Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum\, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie’s past glow with the intensity of childhood perception\, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is\, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? \nAIMEE BENDER is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller—and An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt\, Willful Creatures\, and The Color Master. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aimee-bender-the-butterfly-lampshade-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200801T190000
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Packs a Wallop' Livestream - 8/1
DESCRIPTION:Live. Virtual. Now\, Bawdy is available wherever *you* are! \nHappening on Zoom on Saturday\, August 1st at 7 PM PST/9 PM CST/10 PM EST \nWanna know what time that is for You? \nhttps://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis evening of Stories\, Songs & B*ttplugs includes: \n• Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n• ‘Edge Play’ author Jane Boon \n• Erotic Activist Victor Warring \n• Second Gen Sex-Positive Revolutionary Jessica Cohen \n• FemDom audio dramatist Ms Natasha Strange \n• Clever songs by musical genius Shirley Gnome \n• Join the #ButtplugClub – our EXHIBITIONIST ticket sales end Monday\, July 27th (because shipping) \n• Try our new VOYEUR ticket for behind the scenes access\, enhanced chat & more (available till showtime) \n• Sponsored by the best lube out there: Uberlube! \n• Prizes include Quarantine Fashion from Dirty Masks \n• Sexy Bath Prizes from Hip Modern Soap Co. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nForbes Magazine calls Bawdy Storytelling the Best: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyForbes \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nSPECIAL: \nExhibitionists\, Join the #ButtplugClub by this Sunday night (July 27th) & you’ll receive: a hefty custom Bawdy buttplug\, black velvet Buttplug cozy\, Bawdy button\, our new sticker\, a FULL SIZE bottle of Uberlube – and you’ll be part of the show as a Panelist! #Exhibitionist \nor \nBuy the Voyeur ticket at get behind-the-scenes access & enhanced chat capabilities (to slide into those DMs) Every Exhibitionist needs a Voyeur! \nHave you always wished that you could be there for a live Bawdy Storytelling? Well\, now you can. Announcing the new Bawdy 2.0! The Online version of our Bawdy Storytelling live show. Finally\, an upside to this whole Global Pandemic thing: you can be part of Bawdy Storytelling LIVE\, as it happens\, and since a Livestream participant can be anywhere\, we’ll feature storytellers from all over the world telling their story. Maybe one of ‘em will be You! \nHow it works: Dixie will host 4 Infamous Adventurers as they share their true tales of Sex\, Kink or Gender – plus\, this time we’ll have original – & Bawdy! – music by the talented Shirley Gnome. \nWe’re hosting this show via Zoom.us and the webinar room has a limited capacity. Our first Livestream’ed Bawdy Storytelling Sold Out really fast\, so make sure you grab your tickets right away – cause we want you there! Finally\, where you live is irrelevant! I’ve often dreamed that every city could have a Bawdy\, and now the whole WORLD can tell their story (and you can hear it\, too). \nWe’re offering tiered ticket pricing for this online event: \n• The Pandemic Price Ticket \n• The General/Solo Ticket \n• The Household/Group Ticket \n• The Voyeur Ticket \n• The Exhibitionist Ticket \nPlease spread the word to all your friends around the world who might want to come\, and tell em Bawdy is now a Livestream! It’s virtual\, which means that you can be part of Bawdy\, no matter where you are! Post the info on social media\, & email this link to friends. We need your help to get the word out about this new version of Bawdy! \nPerformer Bios: \n• Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. Dixie has recently been a featured storyteller for the National Storytelling Conference\, and in addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, she coaches individuals for events such as TEDx\, Women in Technology\, and hosts and coaches events for Classrooms\, Kink Conferences and Public Libraries. \nThis Bawdy Storytelling live stage series is 13 years strong\, the Bawdy Storytelling podcast has over 450 5 star reviews – plus it’s been labeled a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Women’s Health\, Bustle\, Cosmo and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nUltimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Dixie has also been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com Remember\, Stories help you find your people! \n• Jane Boon lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her husband\, Norm Pearlstine. She studied technology and policy at MIT and later received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. Jane has written for publications like The Wall Street Journal\, Bloomberg Businessweek\, Time.com\, McSweeneys.net\, and TravelandLeisure.com. Jane enjoys improv and playing dress up\, including the time she wore a corset\, garters and thigh-high stockings as a dominatrix in the Fox TV series\, Gotham. EDGE PLAY is her first novel. \nLinks to where EDGE PLAY is sold: \nhttps://www.amazon.com/Edge-Play-Jane-Boon-ebook/dp/B088FY7YRB/. & \nhttps://bookshop.org/books/edge-play/9781682451328 \n• Natasha Strange has been a professional dominatrix for 25 years\, specializing in creative sadistic escapism. Offering sessions in a wide variety of disciplines\, she has cultivated a deep understanding of what draws people to kink. She believes that most people who indulge in kink and BDSM are searching to fulfill emotional needs. As a dominant she uses those emotional goals as a guide when addressing physical desires. \nWhen not tormenting her adoring submissives\, she is a BDSM coach and kink educator helping destigmatize non-standard sexual desires. She is the author of a BDSM primer for adults who are curious about kink called Kinky Sex Tips for Curious Girls: A BDSM Activity Book for Beginners. It’s full of color pages\, geeky puns\, fun activities\, puzzles and solid information about kink\, consent and communication. \nShe is also the co-owner of Sub Rosa\, a boutique BDSM play and education space located in Portland Oregon. \n• Victor Warring is a Somatic Sexuality Educator\, a Sexuality & Relationship Coach and an Erotic Activist. He is also an antiracism/racial equity community educator. He has a background in somatic psychotherapy\, cultural anthropology\, theatre and movement improvisation including Playback Theatre\, improvisational storytelling. \nVictor values the power of storytelling as a leveler of human experience. It is our primary form of community gathering and ritual connection since the days of our hunter gatherer forebears sitting around yellow fire light deep into the night. \nVictor currently lives and practices in Ashland\, OR. \n• Jessica Cohen says: Growing up in the Bay Area\, I’ve had plenty of opportunity to hear and tell some stories. Along the way I got a BA in Art. I’ve had a wide range of jobs in my time\, Nanny\, Salesperson\, Barista\, Fortuneteller\, Comic Con Celebrity Wrangler\, currently I am working as a Freelance Illustrator. I’m an avid reader\, gamer and a frequent writer. I am a collector of stories and a weaver of lore for my Wasteland and D&D communities. I have performed for Bawdy Storytelling 3 times and I once had the honor of being nominated for Best of Bawdy. \nArt: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BurningGroundGraphix \nTarot: http://www.tarotofthewaste.com/ \nWebsite: http://www.jessicatcohen.com/ \n• From the west coast of Canada comes the multi-award winning cabaret musician\, Shirley Gnome\, whose all-original\, uncensored music about human nature is hilarious\, honest\, subversive\, smart\, empowering\, taboo and not for the faint of heart. Her cleverly carnal lyrics go down smooth with her inappropriately gorgeous vocals\, and her charm will disarm you through even the most provocative topics. Her outlandish cover songs transform top 40 hits into dark social satire. \nAfter a surprise win of Patrick Maliha’s The People’s Champ of Comedy in 2012\, Gnome began working her charms in comedy clubs\, music venues\, and burlesque festivals across Canada. Gnome’s underground cult status got an international upgrade when she hit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013\, receiving rave reviews. She continued this success by touring internationally\, wowing audiences and critics alike with sell out shows across Canada\, the US\, Australia\, and New Zealand. She closed out the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s all-woman showcase UpFront in 2017. Her party anthem The Glitter Song went viral that same year\, stacking up over half a million views. \nShe signed with 604 Records\, and her 4th album Taking It Up The Notch debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts in Canada when it debuted in 2017. In 2020\, her follow up release with 604 Records (Comedy Here Often?)\, Decoxification\, also went to number #1. She has released five full-length albums since her debut in 2009\, which you can hear frequently on SiriusXM stations all over North America. You may have also heard her on Dan Savage’s chart topping podcast The Savage Lovecast. \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \nOn Twitter: @Bawdy \nOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ \nOn Facebook at www.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \nSupport us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy \nWatch us on YouTube at http://bit.ly/BawdyTV \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage” – Playgirl \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nForbes Magazine calls Bawdy Storytelling the Best: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyForbes \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyBestOfEsquire (for 2018\, 2019 – & 2020!) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n1 of GQ Magazine’s Best Sex Podcasts (to make you Better in Bed): \nhttps://www.gq.com/story/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n#1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nBuzzfeed says Bawdy Storytelling is a Sex & Relationship podcast you should be listening to: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyBuzzfeed \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nHustler Magazine says “Dixie De La Tour is elevating \ndirty talk to an art form…” ow.ly/Laab50wC0KH \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nBustle says Bawdy Storytelling is a “Sexy Date Idea for a Long Term Relationship” \nhttps://www.bustle.com/p/9-sexy-date-ideas-for-long-term-relationships-8624566 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of Best Storytelling Show (SFist.com)\, Best Storytelling Show (SF Weekly)\, Best Storytelling Show (LA Weekly) & 2-Time Best Literary Event (SF Bay Guardian) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-packs-a-wallop-livestream-8-1/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Caitlin Myer / Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Caitlin Myer for the launch of her debut\, Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy. Please join us! \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\nAt thirty-six years old\, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after … when her body betrays her. In a single week\, she suffers the twin losses of a hysterectomy and the death of her mother\, and she is jolted into a terrible awakening that forces her to reckon with her past—and future. \nThis is the story of one woman’s lifelong combat with a culture—her “escape” from religion at age twenty\, only to find herself similarly entrapped in the gender conventions of the secular culture at large\, conventions that teach girls and women to shape themselves to please men\, to become good wives and mothers. The biblical characters Yael and Judith\, wives who became assassins\, become her totems as she evolves from wifely submission to warrior independence. \nAn electric debut that loudly redefines our notions of womanhood\, Wiving grapples with the intersections of religion and sex\, trauma and love\, sickness and mental illness\, and a woman’s harrowing enlightenment. Building on the literary tradition of difficult women who struggle to be heard\, Wiving introduces an urgent\, striking voice to the scene of contemporary women’s writing at a time when we must explode old myths and build new stories in their place. \n \n\nCaitlin Myer is the daughter of a poet and a visual artist\, and she grew up in a large\, chaotic Mormon family in Provo\, Utah. Her short stories\, poetry\, and essays have appeared in No Tokens\, Electric Literature \, The Butter\, Cultural Weekly\, and Joyland\, among others\, and she was a 2012 MacDowell Colony Fellow. In 2010\, Myer founded the San Francisco–based literary reading series\, Portuguese Artists Colony (PAC)\, which has extended its reach beyond the US to performances in Portugal. For seven years she traveled the world\, and she has recently settled in Guimarães\, Portugal. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-caitlin-myer-wiving-a-memoir-of-loving-then-leaving-the-patriarchy/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Laurie R. King (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Laurie R. King‘s Riviera Gold brings back Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes—this time to the Riviera\, where they’re challenged to crack their most captivating case yet. \nIn her Russell & Holmes stories\, Laurie explores ideas—the roots of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan; feminism and early Christianity; patriotism and individual responsibility—while also having a rousing good time. Five of Laurie’s novels concern San Francisco homicide inspector Kate Martinelli\, Kate’s SFPD partner Al Hawkin\, and her life partner Lee Cooper. Her stand-alone suspense novels include A Darker Place\, Folly\, and Keeping Watch. She has also collaborated on nonfiction works including Crime & Thriller Writing and The Grand Game\, and on several short story anthologies. \nLaurie is the third generation in her family native to the San Francisco area. She spent her childhood reading her way through libraries up and down the West Coast; her middle years raising children\, renovating houses\, traveling the world\, and doing a BA and MA in theology. (Her long autobiography goes into detail about how she uses these interests.) She now lives a genteel life of crime\, on California’s central coast. \nCara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 19 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series\, which is set in Paris. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation\, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal\, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. With more than 400\,000 books in print\, the Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-laurie-r-king-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues\, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This first event in the series features A. Naomi Paik discussing her book Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\n\nDays after taking the White House\, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban\, the border wall\, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here\, Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty-fifth president’s xenophobic\, racist\, ableist\, patriarchal ascendancy is no aberration\, but the consequence of two centuries of U.S. political\, economic\, and social culture. She deftly demonstrates that attacks against migrants are tightly bound to assaults against women\, people of color\, workers\, ill and disabled people\, and queer and gender nonconforming people. Against this history of barriers and assaults\, Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary mounts a rallying cry for a broad-based\, abolitionist sanctuary movement for all. \n\nA. Naomi Paik is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at University of Illinois and the author of Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II. \n\nUC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith \n\n\n\n\n\n8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century\n8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies\n8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration\n8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment\n8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\n9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary sent to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-a-naomi-paik-bans-walls-raids-sanctuary-understanding-u-s-immigration-for-the-twenty-first-century/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Healing Fire - Fire Thieves 11
DESCRIPTION:THE HEALING FIRE is the 11th edition of The Fire Thieves Poetry Series. On Monday August 3rd\, please help us welcome features Maw Shein Win\, Jennifer Barone\, Genevieve Yuen\, Norma Smith\, Anastasia Rutledge and more TBA. \nThe Fire Thieves is an inter-sectional & inter-generational poetry series produced by San Francisco poet laureate Kim Shuck every month with 2 established poets\, 2 mid-career poets and 2 younger poets. \nVisual Design: May Kodama \nThis event made possible by the Academy of American Poets with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-healing-fire-fire-thieves-11/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Congressman Eric Swalwell\, Endgame
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online discussion with Congressman Eric Swalwell\, who will be in conversation with Steve Kettman about his new book\, Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump. In Endgame\, Swalwell offer his account of his path to office and how he and his colleagues resisted\, investigated\, and impeached a corrupt president. Congressman Swalwell grew up in the East Bay and now represents the 15th district. He serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and on the House Judiciary Committe. \nThis will be a ticketed event on the Crowdcast platform. Details to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-congressman-eric-swalwell-endgame/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Lysley Tenorio & Sameer Pandya
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Lysley Tenorio (The Son of Good Fortune) & Sameer Pandya (Members Only). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy The Son of Good Fortune and/or Members Only and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nThe Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorio \nExcel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (occasionally in one of their town’s seventeen cemeteries)\, he carefully avoids the spotlight. \nBut Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother\, Maxima\, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather\, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago\, on Excel’s tenth birthday\, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever. “We are ‘TNT’—tago ng tago\,” she told him\, “hiding and hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life. \nCasting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood\, Excel takes a leap\, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City. Populated by drifters\, old hippies\, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible\, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider? \nThrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful\, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other. \nLysley Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune and the story collection Monstress\, named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, a Whiting Award\, a Stegner fellowship\, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, and Ploughshares\, and have been adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Ma-Yi Theater in New York City. He is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nMembers Only by Sameer Pandya \nFirst the white members of Raj Bhatt’s posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way\, he wonders: where does he\, a brown man\, belong in America? \nRaj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child\, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged\, he lives mostly happily in California\, with a job at a university. Still\, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times\, especially at their tennis club\, a place he’s cautiously come to love. \nBut it’s there that\, in one week\, his life unravels. It begins at a meeting for potential new members: Raj thrills to find an African American couple on the list; he dreams of a more diverse club. But in an effort to connect\, he makes a racist joke. The committee turns on him\, no matter the years of prejudice he’s put up with. And worse still\, he soon finds his job is in jeopardy after a group of students report him as a reverse racist\, thanks to his alleged “anti-Western bias.” \nHeartfelt\, humorous\, and hard-hitting\, Members Only explores what membership and belonging mean\, as Raj navigates the complicated space between black and white America. \nSameer Pandya is the author of the story collection The Blind Writer\, which was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. His fiction\, commentary\, and cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications\, including the Atlantic\, Salon\, Sports Illustrated\, ESPN\, and Narrative Magazine. He teaches creative writing and South Asian and Asian American literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Members Only is his first novel. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:No Fascist USA! Discussion Series\, Talk #1 - Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley in the first of four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, with Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley. \nEvent co-sponsored by Burning Books (Buffalo\, NY) and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) – Buffalo. \n———–– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———— \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(Click Here) to register\n————- \nCity Lights LIVE presents four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, hosted by Hilary Moore and James Tracy\, author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements. \nTalk #1\, happening on Tuesday\, August 4th at 1PM PST / 4PM EST is a conversation with Shane Burley. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Burning Books in Buffalo\, NY. Please consider supporting Burning Books by purchasing a copy of No Fascist USA! from them: (buy link here). \nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS \nHilary Moore is an anti-racist political educator and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice\, and is the co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights\, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press\, 2011). Her newest book is Burning Earth\, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Brussels\, 2020). \nJames Tracy is an author\, organizer\, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. \nShane Burley is a filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin\, In These Times\, Salon\, Truthout\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-fascist-usa-discussion-series-talk-1-hilary-moore-james-tracy-and-shane-burley/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:David Sheff Local writer discusses his new book\, The Buddhist on Death Row
DESCRIPTION:David Sheff\, author of Beautiful Boy\, joins us for a virtual event for his new book\, The Buddhist on Death Row. \nThis event will be held on Crowdcast. Register here. \n“This book shows vividly how\, even in the face of the greatest adversity\, compassion and a warm-hearted concern for others bring peace and inner strength.” — His Holiness the Dalai Lama \n“I’m a friend of Jarvis Masters\, so I know the truth of this book\, but I want to hail its power. I believe it will encourage many people to examine their own lives and their unrealized potential for awareness\, generosity\, commitment\, and courage.” —Rebecca Solnit\, author of Men Explain Things to Me \nAbout The Buddhist on Death Row\nJarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach\, California\, his house was filled with crack\, alcohol\, physical abuse\, and men who paid his mother for sex. He and his siblings were split up and sent to foster care when he was five\, and he progressed quickly to juvenile detention\, car theft\, armed robbery\, and ultimately San Quentin. While in prison\, he was set up for the murder of a guard—a conviction which landed him on death row\, where he’s been since 1990. \nAt the time of his murder trial\, he was held in solitary confinement\, torn by rage and anxiety\, felled by headaches\, seizures\, and panic attacks. A criminal investigator repeatedly offered to teach him breathing exercises which he repeatedly refused. Until desperation moved him to ask her how to do “that meditation shit.” With uncanny clarity\, David Sheff describes Masters’s gradual but profound transformation from a man dedicated to hurting others to one who has prevented violence on the prison yard\, counseled high school kids by mail\, and helped prisoners—and even guards—find meaning in their lives. \nAlong the way\, Masters becomes drawn to the principles that Buddhism espouses—compassion\, sacrifice\, and living in the moment—and he gains the admiration of Buddhists worldwide\, including many of the faith’s most renowned practitioners. And while he is still in San Quentin and still on death row\, he is a renowned Buddhist thinker who shows us how to ease our everyday suffering\, relish the light that surrounds us\, and endure the tragedies that befall us all. \nAbout David Sheff\nDavid Sheff is the author of multiple books including the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Beautiful Boy\, which was recently turned into a movie starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, Outside\, Rolling Stone\, Wired\, Fortune\, and elsewhere. His piece for The New York Times\, “My Addicted Son\,” received an award from the American Psychological Association for Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of Addictions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-sheff-local-writer-discusses-his-new-book-the-buddhist-on-death-row/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Jordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 5th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT \nJordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh \n Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \nJordan Blashek and Christopher Haugh’s just-released book\, Union: A Democrat\, a Republican\, and a Search for Common Ground\, is the story of the two friends’ three-year journey across America. One a Republican and one a Democrat\, they traveled together through 44 states and along 20\,000 miles of road to find out exactly where the American experiment stands at the close of the second decade of the 21st Century. \nJordan is a military veteran and businessman from Los Angeles. After college\, he spent five years in the US Marine Corps as an infantry officer\, serving two combat tours overseas\, in Afghanistan and the Middle East. He holds degrees from Yale Law School\, Stanford Graduate School of Business\, and Princeton University. He is based in New York\, where he invests in entrepreneurial efforts to grow the American middle class as part of Schmidt Futures\, a new philanthropic venture created by Eric and Wendy Schmidt. \nChristopher is a speechwriter and journalist from the Bay Area. He attended UC Berkeley and Oxford University and started speechwriting as an intern in the Obama White House. He went on to join the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff where he served as a speechwriter to the Secretary. In 2018\, he graduated from Yale Law School where he was a Yale Journalism Scholar. Chris is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Colin Dickey
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 5 at 5:00pm PDT as Colin Dickey discusses his new book\, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters\, Alien Encounters\, and Our Obsession with The Unexplained on Zoom. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85998503448 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,85998503448#  or +12532158782\,\,85998503448#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 859 9850 3448\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcvSfo0QxC\n \nAbout The Unidentified \nAmerica’s favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country’s most persistent “unexplained” phenomena \nIn a world where rational\, scientific explanations are more available than ever\, belief in the unprovable and irrational—in fringe—is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens\, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster\, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in\, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. \nEnter Colin Dickey\, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics\, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common\, explaining that today’s Illuminati is yesterday’s Flat Earth: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America’s wildest fringe beliefs—from the famed Mount Shasta where the ancient race (or extra-terrestrials\, or possibly both\, depending on who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam\, to the museum containing the last remaining “evidence” of the great Kentucky Meat Shower—investigating how these theories come about\, why they take hold\, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best: curious\, wry\, brilliant in his analysis\, yet eminently readable. \n\nAbout the Author \nColin Dickey is a writer\, speaker\, and academic\, and has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He’s a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham’s Quarterly\, and is the co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death\, a collective of artists\, writers\, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world’s relationship with mortality. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California\, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National University.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Aimee Bender in conversation with Ploi Pirapokin / The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host a virtual event with Aimee Bender for her new novel\, The Butterfly Lampshade\, her first since New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake came out in 2010. She’ll be in conversation with Ploi Pirapokin. Please join us! \nPlease note: \n> This is a ticketed event – tickets can be purchased in advance here. Tickets are only $5 and can be applied toward the purchase of The Butterfly Lampshade; if you purchase the book from us\, there’s no need to buy a ticket (but if you decide during the event you want a copy of the book we’ll be happy to refund your $5 ticket). We will send connection information to ticket/book holders the day before the event. \n\n\nOn the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode\, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter\, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she’s sleeping\, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes\, Francie spies a dead butterfly\, exactly matching the ones on the lamp\, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. \nTwenty years later\, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment\, and two other incidents — her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper\, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact — she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty\, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her\, and what they say about her own place in the world. \nAs Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum\, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie’s past glow with the intensity of childhood perception\, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is\, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? \nTold in the lush\, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language\,” The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world\, and a broken love between mother and child. \n\n\nAimee Bender is the author of the novels The Color Master\, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller\, An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into 16 languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Author photo by Mark Miller. \nPloi Pirapokin is the Nonfiction Editor at Newfound Journal and the co-editor of The Greenest Gecko: An Anthology of New Asian Fantasy forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2021. Her work is featured in Tor.com\, Apogee Journal\, The Offing\, The Bellingham Review\, Fiction International\, and more. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-aimee-bender-the-butterfly-lampshade/
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