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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jenny Bitner
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, JUNE 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN JENNY BITNER DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, HERE IS A GAME WE COULD PLAY\, ON ZOOM!\nBROADCAST LIVE FROM GREEN APPLE BOOKS\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84868544257\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84868544257#  or +13462487799\,\,84868544257#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kii5v4tjd \nPraise for Here is a Game We Could Play\n“Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person\, in its absence as much as its presence\, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection\, it is a ‘terrible and beautiful thing.'”—Foreword Reviews\, starred review \n“Tender\, yearning\, and dangerously imagined. . .  A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild.”—Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying \n“Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut.”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \nAbout Here is a Game We Could Play\nThis original\, funny\, and moving novel follows Claudia\, a loner with an active fantasy life\, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships. \nA dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia\, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in—a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium\, loneliness\, and her obsessive fear of poisoning\, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover\, to whom she addresses letters about her life\, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios. \n​In each fantasy\, her lover takes a different form\, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden\, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms’ fairy tale\, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia\, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity—building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library\, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job\, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose\, the town’s new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose\, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past—the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed. \nFunny\, dark\, inventive\, and moving\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender\, Angela Carter\, Rebecca Brown\, and Margaret Atwood. \nAbout Jenny Bitner\nJenny Bitner‘s stories\, essays\, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, PANK\, Fence\, Mississippi Review\, The Fabulist\, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jenny Bitner
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, JUNE 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN JENNY BITNER DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, HERE IS A GAME WE COULD PLAY\, ON ZOOM!\nBROADCAST LIVE FROM GREEN APPLE BOOKS\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84868544257\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84868544257#  or +13462487799\,\,84868544257#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kii5v4tjd \nPraise for Here is a Game We Could Play\n“Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person\, in its absence as much as its presence\, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection\, it is a ‘terrible and beautiful thing.'”—Foreword Reviews\, starred review \n“Tender\, yearning\, and dangerously imagined. . .  A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild.”—Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying \n“Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut.”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \nAbout Here is a Game We Could Play\nThis original\, funny\, and moving novel follows Claudia\, a loner with an active fantasy life\, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships. \nA dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia\, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in—a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium\, loneliness\, and her obsessive fear of poisoning\, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover\, to whom she addresses letters about her life\, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios. \n​In each fantasy\, her lover takes a different form\, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden\, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms’ fairy tale\, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia\, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity—building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library\, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job\, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose\, the town’s new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose\, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past—the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed. \nFunny\, dark\, inventive\, and moving\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender\, Angela Carter\, Rebecca Brown\, and Margaret Atwood. \nAbout Jenny Bitner\nJenny Bitner‘s stories\, essays\, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, PANK\, Fence\, Mississippi Review\, The Fabulist\, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jenny-bitner-2/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Youssef Alaoui\, Jason Bayani\, Genny Lim & Michael Warr
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response\, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to the social/ political/ racial/ justice narratives of four murals on Clarion Alley. \nCurated by CAMP artist and organizer Megan Wilson (wall) and poet Maw Shein Win (response)\, the fourth and final event in the series features Youssef Alaoui\, Jason Bayani\, Genny Lim and Michael Warr responding to the mural The Will To Live (2018)by Art Forces\, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)\, and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO). \nThe Will To Live (2018)by Art Forces\, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)\, and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO) celebrates and honors the lives of six Arab leaders: Rasmea Odeh\, Mehdi Ben Barka\, Naji Diafullah\, Leila Khaled\, Basel Al Araj\, and Yasser Mortaja. The mural manifests and expresses the resilience and resistance of the Bay Area community to attacks on freedom and liberties of Arab\, Muslim\, people of color\, immigrants and refugees. The Will To Live is one of five murals on Clarion Alley with messaging in support of Palestine and in solidarity to call an end to Israel’s apartheid and settler colonial state. The five murals have been hit with hate crime vandalism 21 times in the past two years\, between September 2018 – September 2020. CAMP and its artists continue to repair the works as an act of resilience and in support of the global movement for the Palestinian right of return. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n– ABOUT THE PROJECT – \nWall + Response was originally conceived to culminate in four quarterly public events to be presented on Clarion Alley. However\, due to the pandemic the poets will instead be filmed by videographer Mahima Kotian reading their work in front of the murals on Clarion Alley. Kotian will be creating videos for each series that will be presented as part of live online events (of which this is the first). All the events are free and open to the public. \nThe poets are creating new poems in response to the murals\, and will be reading those and other selected works at the events. The specific dates for each event will be announced in the month prior to the event. \nWall + Response is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Art Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. \n– ABOUT THE AUTHORS – \nYoussef Alaoui is a Moroccan Colombian American. His family and heritage are an endless source of inspiration for his varied\, dark\, spiritual and carnal writings. He has an MFA in Poetics from New College of California. His work has appeared in Exquisite Corpse\, Big Bridge\, 580 Split\, Dusie Press\, RIVET Journal\, Paris Lit Up\, The Opiate\, and nominated for a Pushcart at Full of Crow. His short story collection “Fiercer Monsters” was published by Nomadic Press of Oakland\, CA. His poetry collection “Critics of Mystery Marvel” was published by 2Leaf Press of NYC. www.youssefalaoui.info \nJason Bayani is the author ofLocus (Omnidawn Publishing 2019) and Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing 2013). He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop\, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country. His publishing credits include World Literature Today\, Muzzle Magazine\, Lantern Review\, and other publications. Jason performs regularly around the country and debuted his solo theater show “Locus of Control” in 2016 with theatrical runs in San Francisco\, New York\, and Austin. \nGenny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. Her most recent poetry-music collaboration\, Don’t Shoot! Requiem in Black\, dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, premiered at SF Jazz Center in April 2018 with Marshall Trammell\, Francis Wong\, and Equipto. Lim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play that aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the U.S.\, Canada and China. She is author of five poetry collections\, Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo\, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, winner of the American Book Award and the forthcoming anthology of Senior Asian American memoirs\, Window: Glimpses of Our Storied Past. \nSan Francisco poet Michael Warr is the 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. He is a San Francisco Library Laureate and recipient of a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His poetry is translated into Chinese as part of “Two Languages / One Community” a collaborative project with poet and translator Chun Yu. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \n \n– OTHER PARTICIPATING AUTHORS + EVENTS –  \nFebruary 26. 2021: Karla Brundage\, Jennifer Hasegawa\, Tureeda Mikell\, and Kim Shuck responding to the mural We Want Respect\, Freedom\, Land\, Housing\, Justice\, Peace\, Bread by Emory Douglas/Black Panther Party / Remix by CUBA\, D8\, MACE \nApril 30\, 2021: Celeste Chan\, MK Chavez\, Paul Corman-Roberts and Tim Xonnelly responding to the mural Affordable Housing/Vivienda Asequible by the SF Print Collective working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) \n– ABOUT THE CURATORS –  \nMegan Wilson is a visual artist\, writer\, and activist based in San Francisco. Wilson has been a core organizer of Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) since 2001. In 2018 she co-directed and co-organized (with Christopher Statton and Nano Warsono) CAMP’s second international exchange and residency project\, Bangkit /Arise between artists from Yogyakarta\, Indonesia and San Francisco/Bay Area in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The second phase of the project will take place 2021-22. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito\, California (2016 – 2018)\, and her poetry collection Storage Unit for the Spirit Housewill be published by Omnidawn in October 2020. \n\n \n\nYou can read more about CAMP and Wall + Response here. \n— \nThis virtual event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Heino Falcke and Kate Greene
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, JUNE 26 AT 12PM PT WHEN HEINO FALCKE IS JOINED BY KATE GREENE TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK\, LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS: BLACK HOLES\, THE UNIVERSE\, AND US\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87957350367\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87957350367#  or +13462487799\,\,87957350367#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd8jY8diBt \nAbout Light in the Darkness\nA fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the nature of black holes—a blend of the spiritual\, the philosophical\, and the scientific—from the premier German astrophysicist who made history in 2018\, capturing the first one on film. \nA Light in the Darkness is the story of one of the greatest astronomical achievements of all time: the first photographic evidence of black holes in April 2018\, and its significance for humanity\, told by the scientist who accomplished it. A man of faith ordained in the Protestant tradition\, Heino Falcke wrestles with the ways in which black holes force us to confront the boundary where human life ends and the celestial begins. He also ponders why black holes are difficult for most of us to understand—comparing it to our inability to envisage our own inevitable death. \nBlack holes develop in outer space when a massive star dies\, and its matter is condensed. That extreme amount of mass contained in a small space generates a gigantic amount of gravitational force\, allowing the black hole to suck up everything that comes near\, including light. These astronomical wonders are the subject of our greatest scientific and philosophical theorizing—the journey to a black hole would be the journey to the end of time itself. In this way\, Falcke regards them as the most exquisite representations of fear\, death . . . and\, surprisingly\, the divine. \nEmpirical and profound\, A Light in the Darkness is the first work to examine both the physical nature and spiritual meaning of black holes\, those astrophysical mysteries Falcke\, calls “the epitome of merciless destruction.” \nAbout Heino Falcke\nHeino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize. His main field of study is black holes. He lives in Berlin.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Heino Falcke and Kate Greene
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, JUNE 26 AT 12PM PT WHEN HEINO FALCKE IS JOINED BY KATE GREENE TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK\, LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS: BLACK HOLES\, THE UNIVERSE\, AND US\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87957350367\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87957350367#  or +13462487799\,\,87957350367#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd8jY8diBt \nAbout Light in the Darkness\nA fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the nature of black holes—a blend of the spiritual\, the philosophical\, and the scientific—from the premier German astrophysicist who made history in 2018\, capturing the first one on film. \nA Light in the Darkness is the story of one of the greatest astronomical achievements of all time: the first photographic evidence of black holes in April 2018\, and its significance for humanity\, told by the scientist who accomplished it. A man of faith ordained in the Protestant tradition\, Heino Falcke wrestles with the ways in which black holes force us to confront the boundary where human life ends and the celestial begins. He also ponders why black holes are difficult for most of us to understand—comparing it to our inability to envisage our own inevitable death. \nBlack holes develop in outer space when a massive star dies\, and its matter is condensed. That extreme amount of mass contained in a small space generates a gigantic amount of gravitational force\, allowing the black hole to suck up everything that comes near\, including light. These astronomical wonders are the subject of our greatest scientific and philosophical theorizing—the journey to a black hole would be the journey to the end of time itself. In this way\, Falcke regards them as the most exquisite representations of fear\, death . . . and\, surprisingly\, the divine. \nEmpirical and profound\, A Light in the Darkness is the first work to examine both the physical nature and spiritual meaning of black holes\, those astrophysical mysteries Falcke\, calls “the epitome of merciless destruction.” \nAbout Heino Falcke\nHeino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize. His main field of study is black holes. He lives in Berlin.
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of the Pioneering Legacy of Sasha and Ann Shulgin
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Transform Press and Synergetic Press present \nA Celebration Of The Pioneering Legacy of Sasha and Ann Shulgin \n   \nBold explorers of the frontiers of neurochemistry\, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin\, master psychopharmacologist\, along with his wife Ann\, during their lifetimes\, helped usher into being a major paradigm shift in the way we view the exploration of human consciousness. In June 2021\, Synergetic Press and Transform Press will publish The Nature of Drugs: History\, Pharmacology\, and Social Impact. This will be the first book by Sasha since 2011. Together\, Transform and Synergetic have scheduled an exceptional new series of books for release over the next two years celebrating Professor Shulgin’s life and work. \nTo coincide with this auspicious occasion\, a consortium including his publishers and numerous supporters of his work present a weekend Virtual symposium (June 26 & 27\, 2021) exploring the many aspects of Alexander Shulgin’s life and legacy. Through a series of sessions comprising lectures and panel discussions\, we will pay tribute to a man known to many as one of the great pioneers of the exploration of human consciousness. \nThe two-day online event is free. A brief outline of the program follows. Confirmed participants include Ann Shulgin\, Michael Pollan\, Wendy Tucker\, Mariavittoria Mangini\, David Nichols\, David Presti\, Bridgette and Stanislav Groff\, Bob Jesse\, Hamilton Morris\, Janis Phelps\, Kile Ortigo\, Mike Margolies\, Leonard Pickard\, Paul Daley and many others. \nSpecial thanks goes out to California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)\, Erowid Center\, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)\, and the Usona Institute for their support of this event. \n  \nEvents are free but require registration. Click the provided links to reserve a placement. \n  \nSaturday\, June 26\, 2021 \n12pm – 2pm Pacific / Session 1: The Shulgin’s Pioneering Psychedelic Research \nHost: Peter Maravelis\, introduction to event and reflections on City Lights relationship to consciousness studies\nModerator: Bob Jesse – researcher\, engineer\, convener of the Council on Spiritual Practices (CSP.org)\nBrigitte and Stanislav Grof – Stan Groff is the world’s leading researcher in psychedelic therapy\, breathwork\, and the exploration of non-ordinary states of consciousness\, with wife and psychotherapist\, Brigitte\nDavid Nichols – co-founder Heffter Institute\, Chair in Pharmacology at the Purdue University College of Pharmacy\nPaul Daley – Chief Science Officer and Chemist\, Alexander Shulgin Research Institute\nAnn Shulgin\nWendy Tucker – Publisher\, Transform Press\, daughter of Ann Shulgin\nConnie Littlefield –  filmmaker\, producer “Better Living Through Chemistry\,” documentary\nEarth and Fire Erowid – cofounders of the non-profit Erowid Center\, largest and most visited collection of information about psychoactives on the web \n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n——– \n3pm – 5pm Pacific / Session 2: Stories from the Edge: Trailblazers in Psychopharmacology \nModerator: Dr. Mariavittoria Mangini – family nurse midwife for 25 years\, author of numerous papers on historiography and social impacts of psychedelics\nGeorge Greer – psychotherapist\, cofounder Heffter Research Institute\, and Requa Greer\, nurse practitioner\, pioneers in MDMA medical research\nDennis McKenna – ethnobotanist\, author\, founder of the McKenna Academy of Naturalist Philosophy\nKeeper Trout – ethnobotanist\, conservationsist\, curator the Shulgin Archive Project \n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n—————————————————————- \n  \nSunday\, June 27\, 2021 \n12:00pm – 2:00pm Pacific / Session 3: Currents in Psychedelic Research & Regulation \nModerator: Hamilton Morris – chemist\, filmmaker\, and science journalist\nDr. Rick Doblin – cofounder\, CEO\, MAPS and John Gilmore\, Chairman\, MAPS\, cofounder Electronic Frontier Foundation\nAmanda and Cosmo Feilding – Founder and Executive Director of the Beckley Foundation and Cosmo Feilding\, CEO\, Beckley Psytech\, Limited\nLeonard Pickard –  chemist\, author\, former research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School\, and Deputy Director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at UCLA\nDr. Paul Daley – CEO\, Chemist\, Alexander Shulgin Research Institute and Dr. Nick Cozzi – professor of pharmacology\, research scientist\n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n———- \n3:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific / Session 4:    Psychedelic Psychotherapy & Social Impact \nModerator: Janis Phelps – Dean of Faculty at CIIS for the graduate departments in the School of Humanities and Social Science; founder and director of the CIIS Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research\nDr. David Presti – director of UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics\, neurobiologist\, psychologist\, and cognitive scientist\nKile Ortigo – clinical psychologist and founder of the Center for Existential Exploration\, author of Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide For Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration\nBill Richards –  psychologist in the Psychiatry Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine\, consultant/trainer at sites of psychedelic research internationally\nAnnie Oak – Managing Editor\, Lucid News\, journalist\, long-time public health activist\, developed risk reduction strategies for event organizers; cofounder of Woman’s Visionary Council \n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n———– \n6:00pm – 8:00pm Pacific / Session 5: Towards a Sane and Healthy Future \nModerator: Mike Margolies – psychedelic community catalyst and conversation creator; Founder of Psychedelic Seminars (psychsems.com)\nBob Jesse – researcher\, engineer\, convener of the Council on Spiritual Practices (CSP.org)\nMichael Pollan – NYTimes bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind\, cofounder UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics\nAnn Shulgin author\, collaborator with Sasha Shulgin\, with her daughter\, Wendy Tucker – Publisher\, Transform Press\nDr. Julie Holland – psychiatrist specializing in psychopharmacology\, author of numerous books\, most recent Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection\, From Soul to Psychedelics \nClosing statements with Paul Daley\, Ann & Wendy & Trout – and the work of the Shulgin Foundation and forthcoming publications \n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n————– \nClick the following links to purchase: \nThe Nature of Drugs (Link to be posted soon!) \nAlso available: \nPihkal (Link to be posted soon!) \nTihkal (Link to be posted soon!)
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SUMMARY:Nobuko Miyamoto Book Launch Celebration: Not Yo' Butterfly
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this celebration of a mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity\, political activism\, community\, and purpose by Nobuko Miyamoto. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, J-SEI\, and UC Berkeley’s Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Department. The event will also be live-streamed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eastwindbooksberkeley \n[Purchase a copy of Not Yo’ Butterfly here] On Special $27 with Nobuko Miyamoto’s autographed book plate \nNot Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist\, activist\, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II\, Miyamoto leads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and also foregrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories\, identities\, and power through activism and art. \nMiyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sand—considered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs\, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an Afro-Asian son\, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities\, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 Rodney King riots—and how she used art to create interracial solidarity and https://j-sei.org/about/conciliation. \nThrough it all\, Miyamoto has embraced her identity as an Asian American woman to create an antiracist body of work and a blueprint for empathy and praxis through community art. Her sometimes barbed\, often provocative\, and always steadfast story is now told. \nAnnouncing Author Nobuko Miyamoto’s New Album\, 120\,000 Stories. Smithsonian Folkways has just announced artist and activist Nobuko Miyamoto’s new album\, 120\,000 Stories. The album released January 29th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nobuko-miyamoto-book-launch-celebration-not-yo-butterfly/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Tara Brach\, Trusting the Gold
DESCRIPTION:ara Brach will join us for an online event to share Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness\, her beautifully illustrated gift book to help us uncover and trust the innate goodness in ourselves and others. This event is cosponsored by Insight Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nWe receive so many messages from our culture meant to divide us from one another or turn us against ourselves. Yet when we stop judging\, stop avoiding\, stop trying to resist that which makes us afraid or ashamed\, we open to our true nature―a boundless fi eld of awareness that is innately fearless and loving. \nThis recognition of our essential human goodness may be the most radical act of healing we can take. “The gold of our true nature can never be tarnished\,” says Tara Brach. “In the moments of remembering and trusting this basic goodness of our Being\, we open to happiness\, peace\, and freedom.” \nIn TRUSTING THE GOLD: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness\, Tara draws from more than four decades of experience as a meditation teacher and psychologist to share her most valuable practices for reconnecting with the beauty of our humanity―from timeless Buddhist wisdom to techniques adapted to the specific challenges of our modern age. Here you’ll explore three pathways of remembering and living from your full aliveness:\n• Opening to the Truth of the present moment\n• Turning toward Love in any situation\n• Resting in the Freedom of our natural\, radiant awareness \nBrach offers insights and practices for bringing these qualities into everyday life―including the particular challenges of our time such as fear for the future\, anger at authority fi gures\, and grief over injustice. “Even in the midst of our deepest emotional suffering\, self-compassion is the pathway that will carry us home\,” Dr. Brach writes. “What a joy to pause and behold our basic goodness\, and to see how it shines through each of us. Seeing that secret beauty\, we fall in love with all of life.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-tara-brach-trusting-the-gold/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Senator Mazie Hirono with Jan Yanehiro
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT.  \nNew leaders are driving some of the biggest political shifts in our nation’s history as we speak. But do you know their stories? \nOnline this summer\, Kepler’s is excited to host a powerhouse in the Senate whose autobiography embodies a nation in transformation. On June 29\, Hawaiian Senator Mazie Hirono joins in conversation with acclaimed Bay Area journalist Jan Yanehiro for her memoir\, Heart of Fire. \nHeart of Fire marks Hirono’s journey from soft-spoken immigrant daughter to one of the leading voices for progressive causes today. This powerful memoir\, among the most anticipated of 2021\, finds the threads of Hirono’s determination in the strength and example of the Senator’s late mother. Laura Hirono was born in Waipahu\, Hawaii\, and immigrated to Japan. There she gave birth to three children\, and after years of struggle she chose despite incredible hurdles to leave an abusive marriage— returning to Hawaii to give her three children a better life\, all when Senator Hirono was just 7 years old. Mazie\, then called Keiko\, was raised in paradise and in relative poverty by a woman whose love was the shining example of courage. \nBehind the incredible voice that has garnered headlines for her work in immigration\, poverty\, racial equality and justice\, here is the captivating story of what makes the political personal for one transformative leader. \nFrom Waipahu to her role as the first Asian American woman and first immigrant woman on the Senate Floor\, Senator Hirono’s story rings with uniquely American beauty. It is a memoir that will inspire and move you\, no matter your politics. \nHear the Senator in person and set your heart on fire with Kepler’s this summer. \nWebinar space is limited\, so register early! Please consider joining with a book to support programs like this one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/senator-mazie-hirono-with-jan-yanehiro/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: Doctors\, Diseases\, and Deities
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exploration of the art\, science\, and archaeology of medicine in Ancient Rome. This conversation examines a remarkable discovery in Rimini\, Italy that has given us an extraordinary amount of information concerning medicine and medical technology in ancient Rome. The “Domus del Chirurgo\,” (“House of the Surgeon”) is a treasure trove of artifacts that tell us a great deal about the practice of medicine almost 2000 years ago. We will then go on to discuss the Antonine Plague of the 2nd century\, one of the most severe pandemic events the Roman world ever confronted.\n\n\n\nThrough a combination of primary sources\, archaeological discoveries\, and modern science\, Sarah will examine the pathology of the plague as well as its impact on the economic\, political\, and religious life of the Roman Empire. What exactly was the “Antonine Plague?” Was it a factor in the destabilization of the Empire in the 3rd century? And most importantly\, what lessons can we learn about how to react to population-impacting medical crises today? \nSarah Yeomans is an archaeologist specializing in the Imperial period of the Roman Empire with a particular emphasis on ancient science and religion. Currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Southern California\, she is adjunct faculty at both St. Mary’s College of Maryland and West Virginia University. A native Californian\, Sarah holds an M.A. in Archaeology from the University of Sheffield\, England\, and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Southern California. Her current research involves ancient Roman medicine and the impact of pandemic events on Roman society. She is generally happiest when covered in dirt\, roaming archaeological sites somewhere in the Mediterranean region but particularly in Rome\, where she lived for six years. \nTuesday\, June 29\nDOCTORS\, DISEASES\, AND DEITIES: ILLNESS AND INJURY IN ANCIENT ROME WITH SARAH YEOMANS\nOnline\, via Zoom\nThis is part one of our four part collaboration with Context Travel\, as a special Members & Fellows series. These private events are included for free for all current Odd Salon Members\, Fellows. To join us: New members may join by purchasing either the four part series pass for $125\, or purchase tickets here to join the membership and reserve a spot for this seminar only for our standard annual membership cost of $100. \n\nABOUT CONTEXT TRAVEL: Context Learning is a cultural education provider\, connecting global scholars with lifelong learners. Founded in Rome in 2003\, Context started as a tour operator for travelers seeking off-the-beaten-path experiences in the world’s cultural capitals\, growing quickly to 20\,000 tours a year across 70+ destinations. After COVID-19 halted travel operations\, Context continued to expand\, launching live\, scholar-led seminars and courses presented online. What emerged was a thriving community of experts and learners keen to continue exploring\, growing\, and philosophizing\, regardless of their location. To date we’ve covered thousands of topics ranging from Tuscany to Timbuktu\, Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo\, Ancient Rome to Brexit. Context strives to be the cultural center for lifelong learning\, at-home\, on the ground\, and everywhere in between.   \nIf you are not already familiar with the many wonders of Context Travel\, we’d heartily encourage you to go forth and explore their virtual and real-world exploration offerings \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-context-travel-doctors-diseases-and-deities/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Camille Roy in conversation with Eileen Myles
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the book release of Camille Roy’s new short fiction collection \nHoney Mine \npublished by Nightboat Books \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. Links to be posted soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Links to be posted soon. \n———– \nHoney Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp\, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting\, unsparing\, and exhilarating encounters with sex\, gender\, and distinctly American realities of race and class. From childhood in Chicago’s South Side to youth in the lesbian underground\, Roy’s politics find joyful and transgressive expression in the liberatory potential of subculture. In these new\, uncollected\, and out-of-print fictions by a master of New Narrative\, find a record of survival and thriving under conditions of danger. \nCamille Roy’s most recent book is ​Sherwood Forest​\, from Futurepoem. Other books include ​Cheap Speech​\, a play from Leroy Chapbooks\, and ​Craquer​\, a fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books\, as well as ​Swarm​ (fiction\, from Black Star Series). She co-edited ​Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative​ (Coach House 2005\, re-issued 2010). Earlier books include ​The Rosy Medallions​ (poetry and prose\, from Kelsey St. Press) and ​Cold Heaven​ (plays\, from Leslie Scalapino’s O Books). Recent work has been published in Amerarcana and Open Space (SFMoma blog). \nEileen Myles is an acclaimed poet and writer who has published over twenty works of fiction\, poetry\, nonfiction\, and libretto. Their prizes and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Warhol/Creative Capital grant\, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. \nAdvance Praise for Honey Mine \n\n“It’s poetry stretched over mountains of prose\, mythic and dirty like a genius’s sex diary told outta the side of their mouth in a torn bathrobe with a topical map on the back that includes genitals\, wisdom & lore. It’s held together by love – lost & known. And the healing power of silence. Honey Mine is one hell of a unique book. It’s a study. It disrupts the category\, be it literature\, fiction\, the essay or the lesbian. It says: whatever you have the nerve to do\, I will also do. Honey Mine is an inspirational work.” -Eileen Myles \n\n\n“This is a huge book; it belongs in the canon of the best queer writers. To read Honey Mine is to be inhabited by the largesse of the word ‘lesbian\,’ body\, sex\, sexuality. And by a lesbian aesthetic of human relations\, bookended by the author’s magnificent enduring love with her late partner Angie. These fictions\, in resisting…before the theorems arrive… teleological primness\, parade language nimble enough to absorb class\, cities\, memory\, grief\, shame\, without sacrificing a cornucopia of pleasures. Like a tarte tatin\, Honey Mine spills over with deliciousness. My tactic vis a vis narrative\, says Camille Roy\, is really just to bring abandonment into the relationship. She succeeds marvelously.” -Gail Scott \n\n\n“From Camille Roy’s work\, I have learned literal worlds; frog-kicked through summers in musty\, abandoned cabins\, tread the concrete divisions of Chicago’s South Side. In this expansive\, formally promiscuous collection\, ‘stories don’t work.’ Fiction and fantasy function not as creative effacements of the brute facts of queer life\, but as the very means by which that life innovates itself—as relational\, as fickle\, as an ongoing ‘survival of self.’ Gauntlet of girlhood ideology\, love letter peeled open like a garlic clove. Honey Mine takes apart the toolbox of narrative mechanisms; the aberrant languages and intimacies we use to scrape\, mould and manipulate one another. Never bowing to romanticism and yet unmistakable in its communion\, this is a book that has\, in many ways\, seeded and re-made me. I am so grateful for it.” \n-Trisha Low
URL:https://litseen.com/event/camille-roy-in-conversation-with-eileen-myles/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rivka Galchen and Paul La Farge
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, JUNE 29 AT 6PM PT WHEN RIVKA GALCHEN IS JOINED BY PAUL LA FARGE TO DISCUSS HER LATEST NOVEL\, EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR MOTHER IS A WITCH\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87992045770\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87992045770#  or +12532158782\,\,87992045770#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcGethSO7d \nPraise for Rivka Galchen\n“Skillful\, imaginative\, often funny . . . In that grand tradition of American innovators\, perhaps Ms. Galchen’s greatest artistic creation is herself.” — Adam Langer\, The New York Times Book Review \n“To read Rivka Galchen is to enter a wonderland where the bizarre and the mundane march in unlikely lockstep.” —Michael Lindgren\, The Washington Post \nAbout Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch\nThe startling\, witty\, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances \nThe story begins in 1618\, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years’ War has begun\, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg\, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch. \nKatharina is an illiterate widow\, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children\, including her eldest\, Johannes\, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It’s enough to make anyone jealous\, and Katharina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone’s business. So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her\, the Werewolf) accuses Katherina of offering her a bitter\, witchy drink that has made her ill\, Katharina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin\, torture\, and even execution\, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon\, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets. \nDrawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination\, sly humor\, and intellectual fire for which Rivka Galchen is known\, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain. The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. Galchen’s bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition\, the state\, and the mortal convulsions of history.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rivka-galchen-and-paul-la-farge/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kate Zambreno in conversation with T Fleischmann
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nTo Write as if Already Dead \npublished by Columbia University Press \nTo Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic\, transgressive work\, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death\, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault. \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———– \nThe first half of To Write as if Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story\, searching after the mysterious disappearance of an online friendship after an intense dialogue on anonymity\, names\, language\, and connection. The second half\, a notebook documenting the doubled history of two bodies amid another historical plague\, continues the meditation on friendship\, solitude\, time\, mortality\, precarity\, art\, and literature. \nThroughout this rigorous\, mischievous\, thrilling not-quite study\, Guibert lingers as a ghost companion. Zambreno\, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade\, investigates his methods by adopting them\, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of Guibert’s work\, an ode to his slippery\, scarcely classifiable genre. The book asks\, as Foucault once did\, “What is an author?” Zambreno infuses this question with new urgency\, exploring it through the anxieties of the internet age\, the ethics of friendship\, and “the facts of the body”: illness\, pregnancy\, and death. \n  \nKate Zambreno is the author of many acclaimed books\, including Drifts (2020)\, Appendix Project (2019)\, Screen Tests (2019)\, Book of Mutter (2017)\, and Heroines (2012). Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. She teaches in the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. \nT Fleischmann is the author of Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through and Syzygy\, Beauty. \n  \n  \n  \nPRAISE FOR TO WRITE AS IF ALREADY DEAD:\n\n“Zambreno’s most urgent and charged work since Heroines.”\n —Brian Blanchfield\, author of Proxies: Essays Near Knowing\n\n“Here\, as ever\, Zambreno proves herself a brilliantly generous and ambitious reader\, one capable of engaging a text so acutely that the line between self and art blurs. To Write As If Already Dead is gossipy and smart\, angry and agile\, doubling and doubled—and a serious pleasure to read.”\n—Danielle Dutton\, author of Margaret the First\n\n“This book is a tour de force. I was completely awestruck by the way Zambreno enacts the concept of the title\, and by the way she writes the body\, hers and Guibert’s.”\n—Moyra Davey\, author of Index Cards: Selected Essays\n\n“Kate Zambreno stylizes a thrilling form of reading as writing and writing as reading\, one that speaks to the overlapping crises of our contemporary moment. No one thinks better and more carefully about the embodied practice of writing. She is the only person who could have written this book.”\n—Amy Hollywood\, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays\n\n “Guibert’s voice is restored to the present through an act of transportation that left me slightly afraid of Zambreno’s power. But then that’s why you read her\, and him: for a new awe of life.”\n—Andrew Durbin\, author of Skyland\n\n\nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-zambreno-in-conversation-with-t-fleischmann/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Courtney Cook with Mara Altman / The Way She Feels
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host a virtual event with Courtney Cook for her debut\, the graphic memoir The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces.. She’ll be in conversation with the one and only Mara Altman\, who we are delighted to welcome back. Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The Way She Feels here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nOrder Gross Anatomy by Mara Altman here. \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nWhat does it feel like to fall in love too hard and too fast\, to hate yourself in equal and opposite measure? To live in such fear of rejection that you drive friends and lovers away? Welcome to my world. I’m Courtney\, and I have borderline personality disorder (BPD)\, along with over four million other people in the United States. Though I’ve shown every classic symptom of the disorder since childhood\, I wasn’t properly diagnosed until nearly a decade later\, because the prevailing theory is that most people simply “grow out of it.” Not me. \nIn my illustrated memoir\, The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces\, I share what it’s been like to live and love with this disorder. Not just the hospitalizations\, treatments\, and residential therapy\, but the moments I found comfort in cereal\, the color pink\, or mini corndogs; the days I couldn’t style my hair because I thought the blow-dryer was going to hurt me; the peace I found when someone I love held me. This is a book about vulnerability\, honesty\, acceptance\, and how to speak openly—not only with doctors\, co-patients\, friends\, family\, or partners\, but also with ourselves. \n“The Way She Feels is a lifeline to anyone who’s ever felt alone.”– Piper Weiss\, author of You All Grow Up and Leave Me \n“Audaciously human and raw. The Way She Feels is a rainbow during the rain.” – Mara Altman \nAbout the authors\nCourtney Cook is a writer\, illustrator\, teacher\, and lover of naps. Courtney received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of California\, Riverside. She grew up in Winnetka\, Illinois\, and now resides in Chicago with her cat\, Bertie. Author photo by Caity Krone. \nMara Altman enjoys writing about issues that embarrass her (e.g.\, chin hair)\, because she has found that putting shame on the page defuses the stigma\, leaving her with a sense of empowerment and freedom. Her first book\, Thanks for Coming\, an investigation into love and orgasm\, was translated into three languages. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Salon\, and New York magazine\, among other publications. Before going freelance\, Altman worked as a staff writer for The Village Voice and daily newspapers in India and Thailand. An alumna of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism\, she lives in San Diego with quite a few other hairy beings. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-courtney-cook-with-mara-altman-the-way-she-feels/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gillian Osborne Celebrating the release of Green Green Green
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Osborne reads from Green Green Green (Nightboat Books)\, a collection of hybrid essays that engage the intersection of habitats\, horticulture\, and histories both poetic and personal. \n“Gillian Osborne writes prose lithely and thinks with quickness and imagination. I think I learned something or saw something freshly on almost every page of her Green Green Green.” — Robert Hass \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Green Green Green\nFor earlier writers like Emily Dickinson and William Blake\, the green world was a space of haunted opposites: life and death\, innocence and experience\, and the sensitivities of plants. In these essays\, letters\, repetitions\, and experiments\, Gillian Osborne draws on a poetic and scientific archive spanning from the late eighteenth century to the present to explore contemporary meanings of green as both/and: environment as ailing and vital\, global and close to home. This is nature writing as reading\, and homemaking\, in vicinity with others. \nAbout Gillian Osborne\nGillian Osborne is a writer\, educator\, and aspirational gardener living in California. She is the co-editor of a collection of critical essays on modern and contemporary ecopoetics\, and teaches for the Harvard Extension School and the Bard College Language & Thinking Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gillian-osborne-celebrating-the-release-of-green-green-green/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Emily Henry Discussing PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION in a GGP Online Author Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, June 30\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION with author Emily Henry. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81360287172\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION at http://bit.ly/ggpPeopleWeMeet\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/PeopleWeMeetAB. \nDescription\n\nNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ and more! \nTwo best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.  \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read\, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm\, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. \nPoppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow\, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago\, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City\, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer\, for a decade\, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. \nUntil two years ago\, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. \nPoppy has everything she should want\, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy\, she knows\, without a doubt\, it was on that ill-fated\, final trip with Alex. And so\, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table\, make it all right. Miraculously\, he agrees. \nNow she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong? \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-emily-henry-discussing-people-we-meet-on-vacation-in-a-ggp-online-author-chat/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Molly Ostertag\, The Girl from the Sea
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Molly Ostertag\, author of The Witch Boy trilogy\, will share The Girl from the Sea\, her new graphic novel about family\, romance\, and first love\, which School Library Journal calls an “adorable and authentic coming-out story.” This event is cosponsored by Prism Comics. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nFifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can’t wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She’s desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom\, her volatile little brother\, and worst of all\, her great group of friends…who don’t understand Morgan at all. Because really\, Morgan’s biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets\, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl. Then one night\, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn’t seem so stifling anymore. But Keltie has some secrets of her own. And as the girls start to fall in love\, everything they’re each trying to hide will find its way to the surface…whether Morgan is ready or not. \n“This endearing and often funny graphic novel cohesively combines queer teen romance\, realism\, and fantasy.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nMolly Knox Ostertag is the author and illustrator of the acclaimed graphic novels The Witch Boy and The Hidden Witch and the illustrator of several projects for older readers\, including the webcomic Strong Female Protagonist and Shattered Warrior by Sharon Shinn. She grew up in the forests of upstate New York and graduated in 2014 from the School of Visual Arts\, where she studied cartooning and illustration. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her girlfriend and several pets. Visit her online at mollyostertag.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-molly-ostertag-the-girl-from-the-sea/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210702T180000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #65
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-65/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210705T190000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning / Better Ancestors: Valentina De Roca Fuerte\, Lourdes Figueroa\, Kelechi Ubozoh\, ASHA & Teju Adisa-Farrar
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents the third Better Ancestors\, featuring readings and performance by Valentina De Roca Fuerte\, Lourdes Figueroa\, Kelechi Ubozoh\, ASHA and Teju Adisa-Farrar. \nABOUT THE SERIES\nOne of Quiet Lightning’s efforts to diversify and move toward racial equity\, Better Ancestors is a new quarterly showcase of writers of color. Developed in partnership with Michael Warr\, the series features 5 authors reading or performing whatever they choose. Each author selects one performer for the following show\, so the series – and community – is self-generating. All authors are paid and published in an end of the year anthology. \nWhy Better Ancestors? As one of our initiatives to diversify from a board that has historically been mostly white\, this showcase aims to provide a long-term\, forward-thinking goal. As a society\, we are suffering the consequences of pervasive systemic injustice against people of color\, queer and trans people\, the poor\, disabled\, and otherwise disadvantaged. But we are all ancestors of the future. If the planet is to remain inhabitable; if the function of humanity is not to sort and oppress our descendants based on their skin color\, accent\, or material property\, we must be better ancestors. This begins by listening to one another\, and by giving each other space to be heard. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS (pictured above\, clockwise from top left)\nValentina De Roca Fuerte is a performing poet\, awakening visual artist\, workshop facilitator\, and creative wellness educator. Born in Bogotá Colombia\, raised in the DMV & Washington state\, to now living in Harlem; she carries all these places with her. Her words are motivated by the urgency to write through brown immigrant women’s pain & power. She recently graduated with a Masters in Art Politics from NYU Tisch & is now teaching brilliant middle-schoolers in Brooklyn. \nKelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate who blends the reality of trauma\, race\, and mental health into her writing. Kelechi co-hosts the Bay Area submission-based reading series MoonDrop Productions with Cassandra Dallett. She has performed at the Berkeley Poetry Festival (2019)\, Oakland’s Beast Crawl (2016-2017) and San Francisco’s Litquake (2018-2019). For the past three years she has performed at Litcrawl with Cocoa Fly\, an all-Black women troupe. Her work is published in Endangered Species\, Enduring Values edited by Shizue Seigel. In 2019\, she published her anthology with L.D. Green\, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health. She is currently working on a collection of poetry through memoir. \nASHA is an Artist\, Educator\, and Revolutionary. Originally from LA\, ASHA has been a public school teacher for the last 10 years in the bay area. She is an international poet\, striving to use art to create radical change. ASHA has been featured on the cover of Content Magazine\, KQED Arts\, and many of the prominent poetry events in the Bay Area\, as well as been an active speaker\, emcee\, and performer at numerous rallies and marches for civil and human rights. Her Tedx tells her diasporic journey of identity through poetry\, and her latest book release\, Not Your Masi’s Generation tackles mental health and healing from generational trauma. Her dream is to establish her own K-12 school rooted in restorative practices\, art and social justice based standards. ASHA consistently uses her platform to voice out against injustice and to speak up for those who have been marginalized and silenced for centuries. \nTeju Adisa-Farrar is a Jamaican-American writer\, poet and geographer from Oakland. Her writing explores experiences of exclusion\, coloniality\, geographies of Blackness\, urban culture\, environmental equity\, and systemic change. Teju has performed poetry and conducted workshops all over the world including in Austria\, Denmark\, Portugal\, Botswana and the United States. She has been published on several digital sites and magazines\, as well as has an e-book of poetry entitled searching to find home (2014) and a poetry chapbook entitled to belong. (2017) based on her travels throughout Israel and Palestine. Teju is interested in documenting and mapping Black (read: alternative) futures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLourdes Figueroa was born in Yuba City\, California\, during a trip her parents made from Mexico to the USA when they worked in the campo tilling the soil. Her work is rooted in migration\, what her family lived when they moved to this country. In 2009 and 2011 she attended VONA. In 2012 she completed an MFA with a focus in poetry at USF. Her work has been published in Jack Hirschman’s Poets 11 2008 & 2010\, Generations\, Eleven Eleven\, Something Worth Revising and BACKWORDS Press. She currently works and lives in San Francisco with her wife. yolotl was her first chapbook\, published by Spooky Actions. Her chapbook Ruidos=To Learn Speak\, written during her Alley Cat Residency\, is forthcoming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT MICHAEL WARR (pictured above\, right)\nMichael Warr’s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin\, edited by Michael Warr (W.W. Norton)\, and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. In 2017 he was named a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other poetry honors include a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and has extensive experience in community-based arts. He became a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library in 2018. In 2020\, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n\nABOUT QUIET LIGHTNING\nNow in its 12th year\, Quiet Lightning is a literary movement to create and foster community around the written and spoken word. QL aims to democratize public space by offering performances\, curation opportunities\, and programming with no barriers to entry\, providing a launchpad for new and emerging artists\, a reliable platform for professional writers\, and an inclusive\, accessible gathering place for the public. QL is committed to care-taking and progressing the rich threads of literary culture that exist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recognized by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as one of the 100 “people\, organizations\, and movements who are shaping the future of culture”\, Quiet Lightning’s flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a blind selection process and different curators for each show. The shows\, which are free to attend\, are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people\, and all participating artists are paid. QL has now produced 137 shows featuring 1\,673 readings by 879 local authors in 91 venues\, ranging from dive bars and art galleries to state parks and national landmarks\, and has published 115 books and produced two films\, all selected by 74 different curators. In 2019\, Quiet Lightning pioneered an application process for limited-term board-membership\, called Disruptors\, to regularly bring new ideas and energy into the organization. QL maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nMAKE A ONE-TIME DONATION OR SUPPORT US ON PATREON\nEvery tax deductible donation helps Quiet Lightning invest in a sustainable\, ethical arts ecosystem\, with the goal of building that culture into the fabric of our lives. You can donate by Venmo or PayPal or pledge a recurring donation by becoming one of our supporters on Patreon\, which comes with a few additional perks and helps us expand on the work that we do. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-better-ancestors-valentina-de-roca-fuerte-lourdes-figueroa-kelechi-ubozoh-asha-teju-adisa-farrar/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Michael Pollan / This Is Your Mind On Plants
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to present Michael Pollan again for his new book\, This Is Your Mind On Plants\, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind. \nPlease note: \n\nEach ticket includes admission for one to this exclusive event\, 1 **signed** copy of This Is Your Mind On Plants (while supplies last)\, and domestic shipping.\nEvent link will be sent to everyone who gets tickets.\nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.\nAny questions? Contact us at events@booksmith.com.\n\n\nAbout the book\nOf all the things humans rely on plants for–sustenance\, beauty\, medicine\, fragrance\, flavor\, fiber–surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm\, fiddle with or completely alter\, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug\, or our daily use as an addiction\, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So\, then\, what is a “drug”? And why\, for example\, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable\, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? \nIn This Is Your Mind on Plants\, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs–opium\, caffeine\, and mescaline–and throws the fundamental strangeness\, and arbitrariness\, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or\, in the case of caffeine\, trying not to consume) them\, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness\, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? \nIn this unique blend of history\, science\, and memoir\, as well as participatory journalism\, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts\, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively–as a drug\, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants\, Pollan shows\, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds\, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay published almost twenty-five years ago\, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants\, and our attraction to them through time\, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations\, the operations of our minds\, and our entanglement with the natural world. \nAbout the author\nMichael Pollan is the author of eight books\, including How to Change Your Mind\, Cooked\, Food Rules\, In Defense of Food\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma\, and The Botany of Desire\, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine\, Pollan teaches writing at Harvard University and the University of California\, Berkeley. In 2010\, Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed\, all-ages event. Each ticket includes a copy of This Is Your Mind On Plants – no exceptions. If you already have a copy\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted this title to all of your friends\, please write events@booksmith.com and we’ll work things out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-michael-pollan-this-is-your-mind-on-plants/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: Michael Pollan\, This Is Your Mind on Plants
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan for a discussion of his new book\, This Is Your Mind on Plants\, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs\, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos. \nTickets for this special event will go on sale soon. \nPlease note: This Is Your Mind on Plants will publish on July 6th\, 2021\, the date of the event. Books will not be available for pickup/shipping prior to publication date. \nOf all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance\, beauty\, medicine\, fragrance\, flavor\, fiber–surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm\, fiddle with or completely alter\, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug\, or our daily use as an addiction\, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So\, then\, what is a “drug”? And why\, for example\, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable\, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? \nIn This Is Your Mind on Plants\, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs–opium\, caffeine\, and mescaline–and throws the fundamental strangeness\, and arbitrariness\, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or\, in the case of caffeine\, trying not to consume) them\, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness\, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? \nIn this unique blend of history\, science\, and memoir\, as well as participatory journalism\, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts\, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively–as a drug\, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants\, Pollan shows\, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds\, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay published almost twenty-five years ago\, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants\, and our attraction to them through time\, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations\, the operations of our minds\, and our entanglement with the natural world. \n“Building on his lysergically drenched book How to Change Your Mind (2018)\, Pollan looks at three plant-based drugs and the mental effects they can produce. . . . A lucid (in the sky with diamonds) look at the hows\, whys\, and occasional demerits of altering one’s mind.” —Kirkus (starred review) \nMichael Pollan is the author of eight books\, including How to Change Your Mind\, Cooked\, Food Rules\, In Defense of Food\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma\, and The Botany of Desire\, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. He is also the author of the audiobook Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Made the Modern World. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine\, Pollan teaches writing at Harvard University and the University of California\, Berkeley. In 2010\, Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ticketed-event-michael-pollan-this-is-your-mind-on-plants/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Michelle Richmond with Katie Crouch / The Wonder Test
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to present the virtual launch event for Michelle Richmond and her new novel The Wonder Test. She’ll be in conversation with the one and only Katie Crouch! Join us for what is sure to be a wonderful evening. \nPlease note: \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers.\nYou can order the authors’ books below:\nThe Wonder Test by Michelle Richmond; check out her other books\nKatie Crouch’s new novel Embassy Wife comes out a little over a week after this event\, and is now available for pre-order. You can order Katie’s other books here.\nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com.\n\n\nAbout the book\nEscaping New York City and the espionage case that made her question everything\, recently widowed FBI agent Lina Connerly returns home to sell the house she has inherited in tony Greenfield\, California. With her teenage son Rory\, Lina hopes to reassemble her life\, reevaluate her career\, and find a clear way forward. Adrift and battling insomnia\, she discovers that her father’s sleepy hometown has been transformed into a Silicon Valley suburb on steroids\, obsessed with an annual exam called The Wonder Test. \nWhen students at her son’s high school go missing\, reappearing under mysterious circumstances on abandoned beaches\, Lina must summon her strength and her investigative instincts\, pushing her own ethical boundaries to the limits in order to solve the crimes. Meanwhile\, an old espionage case called Red Vine keeps calling her back into the fold. While Lina struggles to balance her new role as a single mother and the complex counterintelligence puzzles she is so adept at solving\, Greenfield’s shadowy dangers creep closer to her own home. \nA searing view of a culture that puts the wellbeing of children at risk for advancement and prestige\, and a captivating story of the lengths a mother will go for her son. \nAbout the authors\nMichelle Richmond is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels and story collections\, including The Marriage Pact\, Golden State\, The Year of Fog\, and Hum. She received the Truman Capote Prize for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Short Story. Her books have been published in thirty languages. She lives with her husband and son in Northern California. Author photo by Nick Elliott. \nKatie Crouch is the New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks\, Men and Dogs\, and Abroad. Her new novel\, Embassy Wife\, was optioned and is currently in development with 20th Television. She has also written essays for The New York Times\, Slate\, Salon\, and Tin House. A former resident of San Francisco\, Katie now lives in Vermont with her family and teaches creative writing at Dartmouth College. Author photo by Liniers. \nPlease note: This is a free event but registration is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-michelle-richmond-with-katie-crouch-the-wonder-test/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - Real Life Pat Holt's monthly book discussion group
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Holt\, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, continues her popular book group\, “Contemporary Classics.” \nA book should stand the test of time before becoming a classic\, but very often\, critics and literary judges leap to praise books as “instant classics” soon after publication. These are the titles Pat’s group will hold up to scrutiny—in fact\, the chewier\, more literary\, more dense\, and “hard to read” the better. One needn’t have read widely\, studied literature\, or learned about literary criticism to join. Just drop in or join us for the whole series\, and let the developing wisdom of the group be your only guide. \nEmail Pat to register and to receive a Zoom link for the meeting. You can write to her at p.holt12@comcast.net. \nSpring dates: \nMarch 3: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu \nApril 7: This Mournable Body by Tsitsi  Dangarembga \nMay 5: Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble \nJune 2: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart \nJuly 7: Real Life by Brandon Taylor \n\nAbout Patricia Holt\nPat was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has been writing reviews and book industry commentary at Holt Uncensored since 1998. She has facilitated book groups for the past 15 years and also joins the Marin West Review’s editors\,  Myn Adess and Doris Ober\, on Radio Bookmobile\, a lively discussion on West Marin Community Radio KWMR\, usually the first Thursday of every month at 10-11 a.m.\, about the most beautiful passages and stirring controversies they can find on the current book scene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-classics-real-life-pat-holts-monthly-book-discussion-group/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Dana Spiotta
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nWayward \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA moving\, funny\, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters\, and one woman’s midlife reckoning\, from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document \n———- \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———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nOn the heels of the election of 2016\, Samantha Raymond’s life begins to come apart: her mother is ill\, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote\, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into “the Mids”–that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood\, mortality\, and\, in this case\, the state of our unraveling nation. \n\nWhen she falls in love with a beautiful\, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse\, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life–and her family–as she grapples with how to be a wife\, a mother\, and a daughter\, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. \nDana Spiotta’s Wayward is a stunning novel about aging\, about the female body\, and about female difficulty–female complexity–in the age of Trump. Probing and provocative\, brainy and sensual\, it is a testament to our weird\, off-kilter America\, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes\, and to the beauty of ruins. Tremendous new work from one of the most gifted writers of her generation. \n\nDana Spiotta is the author of Innocents and Others\, which won the St. Francis College Literary Prize and was short-listed for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Stone Arabia\, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Eat the Document\, which was a National Book Award finalist; and Lightning Field. Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow\, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow\, and she won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. In 2017\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the John Updike Prize in Literature. Spiotta lives in Syracuse and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program. \nPraise for the work of Dana Spiotta \n“An urgent\, deeply moving\, wholly original novel by one of the most wildly talented writers in America. This is Spiotta’s best book yet\, rich with all the joyful immersion-in-culture that characterized her earlier work\, and of which she is a master\, but with\, it seems to me\, more heart\, hope\, and urgency. There’s not a smarter\, more engaging\, more celebratory writer working today than Dana Spiotta\, and here she shows us to ourselves with stunning\, sometimes lacerating\, honesty\, but also with a feeling of genuine hope for us\, i.e.\, with kindness. I finished the book last night and woke this morning both fonder of\, and more terrified for\, America.”\n—George Saunders \n“A dazzling lightning bolt of a novel which illuminates the sometimes exhilarating\, sometimes heartbreaking moments of connection and disconnection in our lives. What begins as a vertiginous leap into hilarious rabbit holes ends as a brilliant meditation on mortality and time. How does she do it? Only Dana Spiotta knows. I’m just happy to see her work her magic.”\n—Jenny Offill \n“What a thrilling experience to take a wayward journey along with Dana Spiotta’s heroine\, in the social landscape of America when America is probing its future\, in a woman’s complex internal landscape as she forges forward. Wayward is a fiercely funny and deliciously subversive novel.”\n—Yiyun Li \n“Wayward is a strikingly human and affecting story… gloriously cool\, deftly assembled\, brimming with mood… a hymn to iconoclasm\, a piercing novel about what we lose and gain by when we step out of life’s deepest worn grooves.”\n—Vogue‘s “Best Books to Read in 2021” \n\nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-spiotta/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210708T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210708T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jessica Hopper
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, JULY 8 AT 6PM PT WHEN JESSICA HOPPER JOINS US TO DISCUSS THE SPECIAL REISSUE OF HER BOOK\, THE FIRST COLLECTION OF CRITICISM BY A LIVING FEMALE ROCK CRITIC\, ON CROWDCAST!\nPROUDLY PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR FRIENDS AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS\nRegistration Information to Come \nThis is a special\, dual presentation for both Northern and Southern California readers.\nWe humbly request that Northern Californians purchase their copies of Hopper’s book from us here at Green Apple Books\,\nand our Southern California viewers purchase their copy from Skylight Books.\n \nAbout The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic\nAn acclaimed career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic\, reissued with new material \nThroughout her career\, spanning more than two decades\, Jessica Hopper\, a revered and pioneering music critic\, has examined women recording and producing music\, in all genres\, through an intersectional feminist lens. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic features oral histories of bands such as Hole and Sleater Kinney\, interviews with the women editors of 1970s-era Rolling Stone\, and intimate conversations with iconic musicians such as Björk\, Robyn\, and Lido Pimienta. Hopper journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl’s empowering insurgence; decamps to Gary\, Indiana\, on the eve of Michael Jackson’s death; explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love; and examines the rise of emo. The collection also includes profiles and reviews of some of the most-loved\, and most-loathed\, women artists making music today: Fiona Apple\, Kacey Musgraves\, M.I.A.\, Miley Cyrus\, Lana Del Rey. \nIn order for the music industry to change\, Hopper writes\, we need “the continual presence of radicalized women . . . being encouraged and given reasons to stay\, rather than diminished by the music that glues our communities together.” The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic—published to acclaim in 2015\, and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irby—is a rallying cry for women-centered history and storytelling\, and a groundbreaking\, obsessive\, razor-sharp panorama of music writing crafted by one of the most influential critics of her generation. \nAbout Jessica Hopper\nJessica Hopper is the author of the books The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic and Night Moves. Her writing has appeared in GQ\, Rolling Stone\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Guardian\, Elle\, and Bookforum\, among other outlets. A longtime contributor to the Chicago Reader\, she has been a columnist for The Village Voice and the Chicago Tribune\, the music consultant for This American Life\, the editorial director for MTV News\, and a senior editor at Pitchfork and Rookie. Her essays have appeared in several editions of Best Music Writing\, and she currently serves as series editor of the American Music Series at the University of Texas Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jessica-hopper/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210708T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210708T210000
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CREATED:20210528T163451Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Vanessa Veselka\, The Great Offshore Grounds
DESCRIPTION:The Great Offshore Grounds (in paperback June 29th)\, by Vanessa Veselka\, was longlisted for the National Book Award and is loved by our staff. It is a wildly original\, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies—national\, individual\, and collective—that drive and define us. “A magnificent beast of a novel. Utterly engrossing. Original. One of the rare novels that understands the realities of American poverty. Epic.” — Roxane Gay \nRegister for this free virtual event by clicking here! \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n  \nOn the day of their estranged father’s wedding\, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle\, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats\, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs. Except\, instead of money\, what their father gives them is information–a name–which both reveals a stunning family secret and compels them to come to grips with it. In the face of their new reality\, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another\, as well as their definitions of freedom. \nMoving from Seattle’s underground to the docks of the Far North\, from the hideaways of the southern swamps to the storied reaches of the Great Offshore Grounds\, Vanessa Veselka spins a tale with boundless verve\, linguistic vitality\, and undeniable tenderness. \nVANESSA VESELKA is the author of the novel Zazen\, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA\, and her nonfiction in GQ\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, The Atavist\, and was included in Best American Essays and the anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism. She has been\, at various times\, a teenage runaway\, a sex worker\, a musician\, an independent record label owner\, a train hopper\, a waitress\, and a mother. She lives in Portland\, OR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-vanessa-veselka-the-great-offshore-grounds/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210711T120000
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SUMMARY:Wales to Bay VII
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Kobrinsky and Caroline Goodwin host a virtual reading with two Bay Area poets and two poets based in Wales\, UK. \nSusan Cohen returned to poetry\, her first love\, after a long career as a newspaper reporter\, magazine writer\, and professor of journalism in the Bay Area. She earned an MFA from Pacific University in 2013\, and is the author of two chapbooks and two full-length collections. Her second collection\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, won the 2015 David Martinson—Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press and was a runner-up for the Philip Levine Prize. Her recent poems won the Terrain.org Annual Poetry Award and second place in Cutthroat Journal’s Joy Harjo Prize competition\, and also have appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader\, Los Angeles Review\, PANK\, Prairie Schooner\, Southern Humanities Review\, Southern Review\, and 32 Poems\, along with several anthologies\, including: Why To These Rocks\, Fifty Years of Poems from the Community of Writers. She lives in Berkeley and has been to Wales once—too many years ago to count. \nPeter Hughes lives on the northern margins of Snowdonia where he runs Oystercatcher Press. He also teaches\, and has been Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. Shearsman published Peter’s Selected Poems alongside a volume entitled ‘An intuition of the particular’: some essays on the poetry of Peter Hughes. His other poetry publications include distinctive versions of Petrarch\, Cavalcanti and Leopardi. His most recent book is A Berlin Entrainment (Shearsman). \nDonna de la Perrière is the author of five collections of poetry: three books — Works of Love & Terror (2019)\, Saint Erasure (2010)\, and True Crime (2009)\, all from Talisman House —  as well as two chapbooks\, Night Calendar (Omerta\, 2018) and First Love (The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange Collection\, 2013). \nHer work has appeared in journals such as American Letters and Commentary\, Brooklyn Rail\, Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Five Fingers Review\, Interim\, Mantis\, New American Writing\, and Volt\, as well as anthologies such as  Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems\, Plays\, Stories\, and Songs for Children (2013)\, No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (2009)\, and Bay Poetics (2006). \nThe recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry Award and a 2016 Creative Work Grant from Intersection for the Arts\, she founded and curated the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series (2004 – 2019) in San Francisco. She teaches in the graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs at San Francisco State University and lives in Oakland\, CA with the poet Joseph Lease and cats Whitman and Dickinson. \nDavid Annwn’s most recent book of poetry is Resonance Field (2021) and his work features in The Edge of Necessary\, Welsh Innovative Poetry and Blackbox Manifold 25 (2021). His poetry collaborations with master-calligrapher\, Thomas Ingmire were the subject of an exhibition at California Book Club\, San Francisco in 2016. \nHe has read at Caffe Trieste with Jack Hirschman and Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and has delivered filmed readings at the Hepworth Gallery\, Yorkshire UK and in settings throughout Europe.  His poetry is featured in eight films by San Francisco film-maker\, Howard Munson\, including ‘Jeu de Marseilles’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Oj565sBH4 ). He is a recipient of a Cardiff International Poetry Award. \nJohn Goodby writes: ‘Annwn has a mastery of different genres and modes  (concrete / typographical\, discursive\, lyrical\, neomodernist paratactic) and the ability to switch between them in the course of a single poem.’ \nBilly Mills has written of Resonance Field: The whole book is alive with this sense of interlocking collaboration\, with Annwn creating a resonance field in which multiple voices interweave to create a work of singular interest in which\, as the final line says\, ‘it is time to recover’. To recover ourselves and our shared heritage.’
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wales-to-bay-vii/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210712T170000
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SUMMARY:Online Intensive Literary Seminar Series - Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
DESCRIPTION:Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea\nSure\, you maybe read Jane Eyre in college but you won’t believe the ways this thoroughly adult novel will wow you. Published in 1847\, Jane was one of the first novels told from the first person. The book revolutionized prose by revealing so much of the speaker’s interiority and is often considered a precursor to Proust and Faulkner. It has spawned reams of scholarship on class\, sexuality and feminism. Most importantly\, though\, Jane Eyre is just such an absorbing\, suspenseful\, sensual and meaningful book. \nAs if the Brontë masterpiece weren’t enough\, we will read Jane alongside the insanely great modern prequel (1966) by Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea takes us to Rhys’s Caribbean to explore the background of the “madwoman in the attic\,” the shocking character who is both invisible and at the heart of Jane. This slim novel is an important post-colonial response that will enrich your appreciation of Brontë. Either of these novels would make for a rich seminar; together\, they’ll allow for excellent literary insights. Join us! \nJoin Kimberly Ford\, for this two-part seminar series on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. We will be hosting this series on the following dates: \nMonday\, July 12 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nMonday\, July 19 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nThere are several ticket options that include books with purchase\, books shipped to home\, books picked up at Kepler’s Books or seminar only.  Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all shipping costs will be waived for the literary seminars. The books should be read prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-intensive-literary-seminar-series-jane-eyre-and-wide-sargasso-sea/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210712T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210712T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Violet Kupersmith and Rachel Khong
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, JULY 12 AT 6PM PT WHEN VIOLET KUPERSMITH JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER LATEST NOVEL\, BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY\, WITH RACHEL KHONG ON ZOOM!\nPRESENTED IN PROUD PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RUBY\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88071786486\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88071786486#  or +12532158782\,\,88071786486#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kelCQTV21m \nPraise for Build Your House Around My Body\n“A heady\, gothic\, spellbinder of a book.”—Kelly Link\, author of Get in Trouble \n“This impressively constructed weave of stories\, haunted by the ghosts of history and family\, is gorgeous\, completely original\, and quite disturbing—usually all at the same time. Beware! This book might swallow you up.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \n“A rich and dazzling spectacle…that peels back the layers of a haunted Vietnam.”—Kirkus Reviews \nAbout Build Your House Around My Body\nPart puzzle\, part revenge tale\, part ghost story\, this kaleidoscopic novel set in Vietnam spins half a century of history and folklore into the story of a missing woman. \nIn 1986\, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. \nIn 2009\, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover\, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. \nAnd in 2011\, a young\, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend disappears without a trace. \nOver the course of the novel\, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Along the way\, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the métis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945; two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co.\, called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together. \nWritten with wit\, ambition\, and playfulness\, this book takes us from sweaty nightclubs to ramshackle zoos\, colonial mansions to ex-pat flats\, sizzling back-alley street carts to the noisy seats of motorbikes. Spanning over fifty years and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion\, this is a fever dream about possessed bodies and possessed lands\, a time-traveling\, heart-pounding\, border-crossing marvel of a novel. \nAbout Violet Kupersmith\nViolet Kupersmith is the author of the short story collection The Frangipani Hotel. She previously taught English with the Fulbright Program in the Mekong Delta and was a creative writing fellow at the University of East Anglia. She has lived in Da Lat and Saigon\, Vietnam\, and currently resides in the U.S.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-violet-kupersmith-and-rachel-khong/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Adam Serwer\, The Cruelty Is the Point
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Adam Serwer\, award-winning journalist at The Atlantic\, will discuss The Cruelty Is the Point—his searing collection of essays which make a damning case that cruelty is not merely an unfortunate byproduct of the Trump administration but its main objective and the central theme of the American project. This event is cosponsored by Marcus Books. \n“No writer better demonstrates how American dreams are so often sabotaged by American history. Adam Serwer is essential.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nTrump summoned the most treacherous forces in American history and conducted them with the ease of a grand maestro. \nLike many of us\, Adam Serwer didn’t know that Donald Trump would win the 2016 election. But over the four years that followed\, the Atlantic staff writer became one of our most astute analysts of the Trump presidency and the volatile powers it harnessed. The shock that greeted Trump’s victory\, and the subsequent cruelty of his presidency\, represented a failure to confront elements of the American past long thought vanquished. \nIn this searing collection\, Serwer chronicles the Trump administration not as an aberration but as an outgrowth of the inequalities the United States was founded on. Serwer is less interested in the presidential spectacle than in the ideological and structural currents behind Trump’s rise—including a media that was often blindsided by the ugly realities of what the administration represented and how it came to be. \nWhile deeply engaged with the moment\, Serwer’s writing is also haunted by ghosts of an unresolved American past\, a past that torments the present. In bracing new essays and previously published works\, he explores white nationalism\, myths about migration\, the political power of police unions\, and the many faces of anti-Semitism. For all the dynamics he examines\, cruelty is the glue\, the binding agent of a movement fueled by fear and exclusion. Serwer argues that rather than pretending these four years didn’t happen or dismissing them as a brief moment of madness\, we must face what made them possible. Without acknowledging and confronting these toxic legacies\, the fragile dream of American multiracial democracy will remain vulnerable to another ambitious demagogue. \n“Serwer’s powerful truth-telling grabs us\, shakes us\, and warns us that as long as we wishfully forget the history of American cruelty\, we will fail to see it coming for all that we hold dear.” —Heather McGhee\, author of The Sum of Us \nAdam Serwer has written for The Atlantic since 2016\, focusing on contemporary politics while often viewing it through the lens of history. Serwer was a Spring Fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as well as the Ira Lipman Fellow at the Columbia University School of Journalism. He is the recipient of the 2019 Hillman Prize for opinion journalism. He lives in San Antonio\, Texas\, with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-adam-serwer-the-cruelty-is-the-point/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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