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SUMMARY:W. Thomas Boyce OFFSITE
DESCRIPTION:A celebration and reading from his new book The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive.  \n“The Orchid and the Dandelion is based on groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children–and the adults who love them.”–Susan Cain\, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, April 5\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom one of the world’s foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health–a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents\, teachers\, psychologists\, psychiatrists\, and child development experts coping with “difficult” children\, fully exploring the author’s revolutionary discovery about childhood development\, parenting\, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success. \nW. Thomas Boyce\, M.D.\, is the Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health and chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine at UCSF. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine and codirector of the Child and Brain Development Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He lives with his wife in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2407 Dana St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94720
URL:https://litseen.com/event/w-thomas-boyce-offsite/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:After Hours: Poetry World Series\nFriday\, April 5th · 7:00pm \nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nThis unlikely pairing of baseball and poetry showcases the poetry\, wit\, and smarts of Bay Area poets who are judged on their ability to make their poems fit subjects “pitched” by the audience. \nMaster of Quips and Ceremonies Daniel Handler ensures fun and irreverence. Popcorn\, beer. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens March 19th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, April 5\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \n  \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \n  \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \n  \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Occult Features of Anarchism: Erica Lagalisse in Conversation with Andrej Grubačić
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 5\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nErica Lagalisse presents her new book\, Occult Features of Anarchism (PM Press\, 2019). In conversation with anarchist dissident and historian\, Andrej Grubačić. \n  \n  \nAbout the Book: \nIn the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution\, but in the current century various “conspiracy theories” suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself. The Illuminati were a network of intellectuals who argued for self-government and against private property\, yet the public is now often told that they were (and are) the very group that controls governments and defends private property around the world. Intervening in such misinformation\, Lagalisse works with primary and secondary sources in multiple languages to set straight the history of the Left and illustrate the actual relationship between revolutionism\, pantheistic occult philosophy\, and the clandestine fraternity. \nExploring hidden correspondences between anarchism\, Renaissance magic\, and New Age movements\, Lagalisse also advances critical scholarship regarding leftist attachments to secular politics. Inspired by anthropological fieldwork within today’s anarchist movements\, her essay challenges anarchist atheism insofar as it poses practical challenges for coalition politics in today’s world. \nStudying anarchism as a historical object\, Occult Features of Anarchism also shows how the development of leftist theory and practice within clandestine masculine public spheres continues to inform contemporary anarchist understandings of the “political\,” in which men’s oppression by the state becomes the prototype for power in general. Readers behold how gender and religion become privatized in radical counterculture\, a historical process intimately linked to the privatization of gender and religion by the modern nation-state. \nPraise: \n“This is surely the most creative and exciting\, and possibly the most important\, work to come out on either anarchism or occultism in many a year. It should give rise to a whole new field of intellectual study.”\n—David Graeber\, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, author of Debt: The First 5\,000 Years \n“A tour de force. Any self-respecting radical should know this history\, right down to the dirty history of the ‘A for anarchism’ sign from its location within Freemasonry and magic. Ripping apart with historical detail our contemporary common sense we learn the tactics of how elite radicals claim power through difference. The significance of this history for the politics of now should not be underestimated and most certainly more widely known. Essential reading.”\n—Beverley Skeggs\, director of the Atlantic Fellows programme at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, author of Class\, Self\, Culture \n“Lagalisse excavates the theological\, spiritual roots of anarchism to identify some of the contemporary shortcomings of left activism. Engrossing\, enlightening\, and often surprising\, the book delights and dazzles as it ruminates on a stunning array of topics from gender and intersectionality to secret societies\, the occult\, and conspiracy.”\n—Gabriella Coleman\, professor of anthropology at McGill University\, author of Hacker\, Hoaxer\, Whistleblower\, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous \nErica Lagalisse is an anthropologist and writer. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, where she is conducting a research project on dynamics surrounding the “conspiracy theory” in social movement spaces. \nAndrej Grubačić is an anarchist dissident and historian and chair of the Anthropology and Social Change department at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His books include Don’t Mourn\, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia\, Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism\, Marxism and Radical History\, and Living at the Edges of Capitalism Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid.  \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, April 5\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/occult-features-of-anarchism-erica-lagalisse-in-conversation-with-andrej-grubacic/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:The FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB will discuss The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg.  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, April 6\, 2019 – 10:00am\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-first-saturday-book-club-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Chris Van Dusen
DESCRIPTION:A new book by Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen is a cause for celebration. And we WILL be celebrating when Chris Van Dusen\, one of our favorite picture book author/illustrators\, visits Kepler’s on April 6. \nEvery porcine wonder was once a piglet – discover Mercy Watson’s delightful origin story in A Piglet Named Mercy. an endearing picture-book prequel to the beloved New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Van Dusen is the author-illustrator of many books for young readers\, including The Circus Ship\, If I Built a House\, If I Built a Car\, Down to the Sea with Mr Magee and Hattie & Hudson\, and the illustrator of the Mercy Watson and Deckawoo Drive series. \nMr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes their lives feel a bit too ordinary. Sometimes they wish something different would happen. And one day it does\, when someone unpredictable finds her way to their front door. In a delightful origin story for the star of the Mercy Watson series\, a tiny piglet brings love (and chaos) to Deckawoo Drive — and the Watsons’ lives will never be the same. \nJoin us and celebrate the joy of a new arrival by a longtime favorite author.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-chris-van-dusen/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-5/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph-2/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Managing California: Governor Newsom's Chief of Staff Ann O'Leary
DESCRIPTION:Ann O’Leary is Governor Gavin Newsom’s Chief of Staff. In that role\, she is charged with helping to manage the 5th largest economy in the world. She is one of most important political figures in California and she is the one is the room. How is she thinking about her role? How will she help the Governor prioritize and strategize? What are her goals? Who is this incredible woman? \nCome join the discussion and meet Ann! \nMore about Ann below: \nAnn O’Leary is Chief of Staff to the Governor of California\, Gavin Newsom. Prior to joining the Governor’s office\, O’Leary was a law partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP where she focused her practice on representing tech companies\, philanthropies and non-profit organizations\, and led numerous pro bono efforts. O’Leary brings decades of experience in government\, politics\, social policy\, and non-profit leadership. She served as Senior Policy Advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Co-Executive Director of the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project. She co-founded the national non-profit organization\, the Opportunity Institute\, as a continuation of her work as Senior Vice President of Next Generation– where she launched a national early childhood education initiative “Too Small to Fail” in collaboration with the Clinton Foundation. \nEarlier in her career\, she was a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco; Executive Director of UC Berkeley Law’s Center on Health\, Economic and Family Security; the legislative director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton; and a policy advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council under President William Jefferson Clinton. O’Leary has served on numerous non-profit boards\, including KQED\, the San Francisco Bay Area’s NPR and PBS affiliate; the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings\, which works in key communities across the South to equip incarcerated young people with the academic\, workforce and social emotional skills they need to be successful; and\, the East Bay Community Law Center\, which provides free legal services to low-income community members. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College\, a M.A. in Education Policy from Stanford University\, and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law. Ann is the proud mother of a 6th grader and 3rd grader\, and is the first Chief of Staff to a California Governor to hold the job while parenting school age children (and she is a very grateful co-equal coparent with Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court Goodwin Liu).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/managing-california-governor-newsoms-chief-of-staff-ann-oleary/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Random Poetics
DESCRIPTION:What is poetry? What is the poet’s role? Is there a future for this ancient art? Does poetry constitute An ideology Poet Neeli Cherkovski will talk on these and other issues\, In a provocative evening in Glen Park
URL:https://litseen.com/event/random-poetics/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 7\n3:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, April 7th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by poets from Sixteen Rivers: Maya Khosla\, Barbara Swift Brauer\, and Camille Norton. \nMore Details to Come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 7\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph-3/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RACHEL CUSK In Conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:RACHEL CUSK\nIn Conversation with Steven Winn\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 9:00 am\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRachel Cusk is a writer of considerable range and depth. She is the author of nine novels including David Agnes\, The Lucky Ones\, and The Bradshaw Variations\, three nonfiction books including A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother and the memoir The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy\, a play\, and numerous essays. Her most recent trilogy —  Outline\, Transit\, and Kudos — embodies a new\, and distinctive style for Cusk. The books take the form of a succession of monologues delivered not by the protagonist\, but by the people she encounters. Little is revealed about a central character who serves principally as a conduit for others’ experiences and reflections\, but the themes and questions that arise from those stories are weighty\, as is Cusk’s choice to subvert traditional positions and form. Cusk’s new collection\, Coventry\, encompasses memoir\, cultural criticism\, and writing about literature\, with pieces on family life\, gender\, and politics\, and on D. H. Lawrence\, and Elena Ferrante.       \nPlease note: this event is at 9AM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-cusk-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gallery Chat and Book Signing: Eddy Portnoy
DESCRIPTION:Eddy Portnoy\, best-selling author of “Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press\,” returns with more stories about Jews behaving badly in early twentieth-century New York. Book sales and signing to follow. \nPresented in conjunction with Lew the “Jew and His Circle: Origins of American Tattoo\,” an exhibition that examines the work of “Lew the Jew” Alberts (born Albert Morton Kurzman\, 1880-1954)\, one of America’s most influential tattoo artists at the beginning of the twentieth century. \nAn expert on Jewish popular culture\, Eddy Portnoy has an MA in Yiddish from Columbia and a PhD in Jewish history from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He currently serves as Academic Advisor for the Max Weinreich Center and Exhibition Curator at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. \nFREE with regular admission as follows: General Admission\, $14; Students with a valid ID and Seniors\, $12; Members and Youth 18 and under\, free. \nPresented by Contemporary Jewish Museum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gallery-chat-and-book-signing-eddy-portnoy/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Non-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later\, near the Canadian border\, one of his favorite generals\, Benedict Arnold\, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war. Four years later\, as the book ends\, Washington has vanquished his demons and Arnold has fled to the enemy after a foiled attempt to surrender the American fortress at West Point to the British. After four years of war\, America is forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within. \nValiant Ambition is a complex\, controversial\, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. The focus is on loyalty and personal integrity\, evoking a Shakespearean tragedy that unfolds in the key relationship of Washington and Arnold\, who is an impulsive but sympathetic hero whose misfortunes at the hands of self-serving politicians fatally destroy his faith in the legitimacy of the rebellion. As a country wary of tyrants suddenly must figure out how it should be led\, Washington’s unmatched ability to rise above the petty politics of his time enables him to win the war that really matters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/non-fiction-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190408T200000
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SUMMARY:Natalie Devora at Alameda Authors Series 3
DESCRIPTION:For the third year\, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby\, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our April author Natalie Devora will discuss her memoir Black Girl\, White Skin\,  and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nNatalie Devora is a writer and activist. Living as a Black woman with albinism affords her a unique lens through which she navigates the world. She has been featured on NPR’s Code Switch She currently serves as the National Coordinator for International Albinism Awareness Day with the National Association for Albinism and Hypopigmentation NOAH.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natalie-devora-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment \npublished by City Lights Books \n\n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate.”—Adam Hochschild\, The New York Review of Books \n“If . . . anyone at all really wants to ‘get to the root causes of gun violence in America\,’ they will need to start by coming to terms with even a fraction of what Loaded proposes.”—Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Her analysis\, erudite and unrelenting\, exposes blind spots not just among conservatives\, but\, crucially\, among liberals as well. . . . As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence\, Loaded is an indispensable book.”—The New Republic \nWith President Trump suggesting that teachers arm themselves\, with the NRA portrayed as a group of “patriots” helping to Make America Great Again\, with high school students across the country demanding a solution to the crisis\, everyone in America needs to engage in the discussion about our future with an informed\, historical perspective on the role of guns in our society. America is at a critical turning point. What is the future for our children? \nLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment\, is a deeply researched—and deeply disturbing—history of guns and gun laws in the United States\, from the original colonization of the country to the present. As historian and educator Dunbar-Ortiz explains\, in order to understand the current obstacles to gun control\, we must understand the history of U.S. guns\, from their role in the “settling of America” and the early formation of the new nation\, and continuing up to the present. \nPraise for Loaded: \n“Dunbar-Ortiz’s argument will be disturbing and unfamiliar to most readers\, but her evidence is significant and should not be ignored.”—Publishers Weekly \n” . . . gun love is as American as apple pie—and that those guns have often been in the hands of a powerful white majority to subjugate minority natives\, slaves\, or others who might stand in the way of the broadest definition of Manifest Destiny.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Trigger warning! This is a superb and subtle book\, not an intellectual safe space for confirming your preconceptions—whatever those might be—but rather a deeply necessary provocation.”—Christian Parenti\, author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis \n“Loaded recognizes the central truth about our ‘gun culture’: that the privileged place of guns in American law and society is the by-product of the racial and class violence that has marked our history from its beginnings.”—Richard Slotkin\, author of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America \n“From an eminent scholar comes this timely and urgent intervention on U.S. gun culture. Loaded is a high-impact assault on the idea that Second Amendment rights were ever intended for all Americans. A timely antidote to our national amnesia about the white supremacist and settler colonialist roots of the Second Amendment.”—Caroline Light\, author of Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense \n“Loaded unleashes a sweeping and unsettling history of gun laws in the United States\, beginning with anti-Native militias and anti-Black slave patrols. From the roots of white men armed to forge the settler state\, the Second Amendment evolved as a tool for protecting white\, male property owners. It’s a must read for anyone who wants to uncover the long fetch of contemporary Second Amendment battles.”—Kelly Lytle Hernandez\, City of Inmates: Conquest\, Rebellion\, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles\, 1771-1965 \n“Now\, in Loaded\, she widens her lens to propose that the addiction to violence characteristic of American domestic institutions also derives from the frontiersman’s belief in solving problems by killing. Whether expressed in individual cruelty like the collection of scalps or group barbarism by settler colonialists calling themselves ‘militias\,’ violence has become an ever-widening theme of life in the United States.”—Staughton Lynd\, author of Class Conflict\, Slavery\, and the United States Constitution \n“For anyone who believes we need more than ‘thoughts and prayers’ to address our national gun crisis\, Loaded is required reading. Beyond the Second Amendment\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz presents essential arguments missing from public debate. She forces readers to confront hard truths about the history of gun ownership\, linking it to ongoing structures of settler colonialism\, white supremacy\, and racial capitalism. These are the open secrets of North American history. It is our anxious denial as much as our public policies that perpetrate violence. Only by coming to peace with our history can we ever be at peace with ourselves. This\, for me\, is the great lesson of Loaded.”—Christina Heatherton\, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz’s Loaded argues U.S. history is quintessential gun history\, and gun history is a history of racial terror and genocide. In other words\, gun culture has never been about hunting. From crushing slave rebellions to Indigenous resistance\, arming individual white settler men has always been the strategy for maintaining racial and class rule and for taking Indigenous land from the founding of the settler nation to the present. With clarity and urgency\, Dunbar-Ortiz asks us not to think of our current moment as an exceptional era of mass-shootings. Instead\, the very essence of the Second Amendment and the very project of U.S. ‘settler democracy’ has required immense violence that began with Indigenous genocide and has expanded to endless war-making across the globe. This is a must read for any student of U.S. history.”—Nick Estes\, author of the forthcoming book Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and Native Liberation \n“With her usual unassailable rigor for detail and deep perspective\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has potentially changed the debate about gun control in the United States. She meticulously and convincingly argues that U.S. gun culture—and the domestic and global massacres that have flowed from it—must be linked to an understanding of the ideological\, historical\, and practical role of guns in seizing Native American lands\, black enslavement\, and global imperialism. This is an essential work for policy-makers\, street activists\, and educators who are concerned with Second Amendment debates\, #blacklivematters campaigns\, global peace\, and community-based security.”—Clarence Lusane\, Chairman and Professor of Political Science at Howard University and author of The Black History of the White House \n“Just what did the founding fathers intend the Second Amendment to do? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s answer to that question will unsettle liberal gun control advocates and open-carry aficionados alike. She follows the bloodstains of today’s mass shootings back to the slave patrols and Indian Wars. There are no easy answers here\, just the tough reckoning with history needed to navigate ourselves away from a future filled with more tragedies.“—James Tracy\, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times \n“Gun violence\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz compellingly shows\, is as U.S. American as apple pie. This important book peels back the painful and bloody layers of gun culture in the United States\, and exposes their deep roots in the killing and dispossession of Native peoples\, slavery and its aftermath\, and U.S. empire-making. They are roots with which all who are concerned with matters of justice\, basic decency\, and the enduring tragedy of the U.S. love affair with guns must grapple.”—Joseph Nevins\, author of Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid \n“Loaded is a masterful synthesis of the historical origins of violence and militarism in the US. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reminds us of what we’ve chosen to forget at our own peril: that from mass shootings to the routine deployment of violence against civilians by the US military\, American violence flows from the normalization of racialized violence in our country’s founding history.”—Johanna Fernández\, Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College of the City University\, and author of the forthcoming book\, When the World Was Their Stage: A History of the Young Lords Party\, 1968–1976 \n“More than a history of the Second Amendment\, this is a powerful history of the forging of white nationalism and empire through racist and naked violence. Explosively\, it also shows how even liberal—and some leftist—pop culture icons have been complicit in the myth-making that has shrouded this potent historical truth.”—Gerarld Horne\, author of The Counter Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has done an outstanding job of resituating the so-called gun debate into the context of race and settler colonialism. The result is that the discussion about individual gun ownership is no longer viewed as an abstract moral question and instead understood as standing at the very foundation of U.S. capitalism. My attention was captured from the first page.”—Bill Fletcher\, Jr.\, former president of TransAfrica Forum and syndicated writer \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz provides a brilliant decolonization of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. She describes how the ‘savage wars’ against Indigenous Peoples\, slave patrols (which policing in the U.S. originates from)\, today’s mass shootings\, and the rise in white Nationalism are connected to the Second Amendment. This is a critically important work for all social science disciplines.”—Michael Yellow Bird\, professor and director of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies at North Dakota State University \n“This explosive\, ground-breaking book dispels the confusion and shatters the sanctimony that surrounds the Second Amendment\, revealing the colonial\, racist core of the right to bear arms. You simply cannot understand the United States and its disastrous gun-mania without the brilliant Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz as a guide.”—Astra Taylor\, author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age \n“There is no more interesting historian of the United States than Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. And with Loaded she has done it again\, taking a topic about which so much has already been written\, distilling it down\, turning it inside out\, and allowing us to see American history anew.”—Walter Johnson\, author of River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Mississippi Valley’s Cotton Kingdom \n“Not only does it rank as one of the most insightful and brilliant books on the layered and deeply textured analysis of the second amendment\, gun culture\, racism\, and white supremacy\, among other issues\, that I have read in years\, but the writing is just lyrical and poetic. A model for combining social commitment\, theoretical rigorousness\, and accessibility. Certainly will be using in my classes.”—Henry Giroux\, author of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma\, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She is the author of many books\, including Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment\, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie\, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico\, and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. She is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the Lannan Foundation\, and she lives in San Francisco\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa See\, The Island of Sea Women
DESCRIPTION:MONDAY\, APRIL 8\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nA new novel from Lisa See\, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. \nMi-ja and Young-sook\, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju\, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough\, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective\, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers\, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger. \nDespite their love for each other\, Mi-ja and Young-sook’s differences are impossible to ignore. The Island of Sea Women is an epoch set over many decades\, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s\, followed by World War II\, the Korean War and its aftermath\, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time\, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator\, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing the closest of bonds\, forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. \nThis beautiful\, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down\, one where the women are in charge\, engaging in dangerous physical work\, and the men take care of the children. A classic Lisa See story–one of women’s friendships and the larger forces that shape them– The Island of Sea Women introduces readers to the fierce and unforgettable female divers of Jeju Island and the dramatic history that shaped their lives. \nLisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, Peony in Love\, Shanghai Girls\, China Dolls\, and Dreams of Joy\, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain\, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the History Maker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 6th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-see-the-island-of-sea-women/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Roz Chast & Patricia Marx on Mothers
DESCRIPTION:Much beloved\, utterly genius contributors to The New Yorker for decades\, the inimitable cartoonist Roz Chast and wry humorist Patricia Marx have now joined forces to gently roast our very favorite human beings: moms. \nJoin us as we welcome both creators for a celebration of motherhood with their new collection\, Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? \nAs a writer\, Marx has always had an eye for small\, domestic absurdities and almost minuscule sociological rebellions—and\, for years\, she has been noting her own mother’s most eccentric one-liners\, with great glee. She compiles them all here! Cartoonist Roz Chast\, whose own mother describes her artistic work as “a conspiracy of inanimate objects\,” highlights the peculiarity of each one-liner with her own wickedly sly sense of visual humor and deep love for how unique a parent’s outlook can truly be. In-conversation to share with us the best of their work\, join these two remarkable women just in time to get that book personalized for Mother’s Day. Don’t miss this chance to chance to celebrate the humor\, grace\, and sheer oddity of moms! \nROZ CHAST has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1978\, and is the only cartoonist we’ve heard of with multiple honorary doctorates\, in addition to several books and a boatload of awards under her belt. In 2012\, she was awarded the NYC Literary Honor in Humor. She has a knack for revealing the entire feeling of a situation in just one sentence\, as evidenced by her critically acclaimed 2014 memoir\, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? \nPATRICIA MARX was the first woman humorist ever elected to The Harvard Lampoon\, a writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats\, and a contributor of creative\, unusual ephemera to The New Yorker since 1989. She has authored multiple books\, taught at university\, given a TEDxTalk\, won some awards\, and only occasionally feared for her own wits. She was the recipient of the 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roz-chast-patricia-marx-on-mothers/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist\, and the co-founder of string field theory\, a branch of the theoretical framework of string theory. His work follows the directive of Einstein\, attempting to develop a Theory of Everything that unites the four fundamental forces of the universe. His books include The Future of the Mind\, Physics of the Future\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Parallel Worlds. His most recent\, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars\, Interstellar Travel\, Immortality\, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth considers the concrete\, scientific possibility of moving human civilization to outer space\, drawing upon astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology to make a case for the potentials of sustainable human life as it intersects with new technology. Dr. Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS: This Morning\, host of two weekly science radio programs\, Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science and a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/destiny-beyond-earth-interstellar-travel-immortality-with-dr-michio-kaku-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU
DESCRIPTION:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist\, and the co-founder of string field theory\, a branch of the theoretical framework of string theory. His work follows the directive of Einstein\, attempting to develop a Theory of Everything that unites the four fundamental forces of the universe. His books include The Future of the Mind\, Physics of the Future\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Parallel Worlds. His most recent\, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars\, Interstellar Travel\, Immortality\, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth considers the concrete\, scientific possibility of moving human civilization to outer space\, drawing upon astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology to make a case for the potentials of sustainable human life as it intersects with new technology. Dr. Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS: This Morning\, host of two weekly science radio programs\, Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science and a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/destiny-beyond-earth-interstellar-travel-immortality-with-dr-michio-kaku/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Cafe presents: RUTH REICHL
DESCRIPTION:Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous\, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now\, for the first time\, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet\, during which she spearheaded a revolution in the way we think about food. \nTonight San Francisco Chronicle’s new restaurant critic\, Soleil Ho joins Ruth to discuss her life\, career and most resent endeavor SAVE ME THE PLUMS: MY GOURMET MEMOIR \, a personal journey\, complete with recipes\, of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark\, following a passion and holding on to her dreams – even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be. \nJoin us for some great “foodie” conversation followed by audience Q & A\, book sales and signing. \n“Save Me the Plums sweeps the reader up in the intoxicating splendor of Gourmet in its glory days\, when the smart set was in it for the food\, the friendship\, and the big new ideas. This is the rare case of an amazing writer living an amazing life\, with a book that’s the party I never wanted to end.”-Ann Patchett\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth \nRUTH REICHL was Editor in Chief of Gourmet Magazine from 1999 to 2009. Before that she was the restaurant critic of both The New York Times (1993-1999) and the Los Angeles Times (1984-1993)\, where she was also named food editor. As co-owner of The Swallow Restaurant from 1974 to 1977\, she played a part in the culinary revolution that took place in Berkeley\, California. In the years that followed\, she served as restaurant critic for New West and California magazines. \nMs. Reichl has been honored with 6 James Beard Awards (one for magazine feature writing and one for multimedia food journalism in 2009; two for restaurant criticism\, in 1996 and 1998; one for journalism\, in 1994; and Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America\, 1984. \n$40-$55. \nPresented by Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts @ The Osher Marin JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-cafe-presents-ruth-reichl/
LOCATION:Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts\, 200 N. San Pedro Rd\, San Rafael\, 94903
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Claudia Castro Luna
DESCRIPTION:MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception\nTuesday April 9\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\nReception at 5:15 for newly admitted graduate students\, followed by readings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaudia Castro Luna is the 2018–2020 Washington State Poet Laureate. Her books include the Pushcart nominated Killing Maríasand This City. She served as Seattle’s Civic Poet from 2015 to 2017 and created the acclaimed Seattle Poetic Grid. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in Poetry Northwest\, La Bloga\, Dialogo\, and This Is The Place: Women Writing About Home. Claudia is currently working on a memoir\, Like Water to Drink\, about her experience escaping the civil war in El Salvador.\n\n  \n\n\nRenee Macalino Rutledge \n\nRenee Macalino Rutledge’s debut novel The Hour of Daydreams was a finalist for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices award\, a Foreword INDIES Gold Winner\, and 35 over 35 winner. Her work can be found in The Margins\, Mutha Magazine\, Women Writers Women’s Books\, Ford City Anthology\, Literary Hub\, Necessary Fiction\, Colorlines\, TAYO Literary Magazine\, and others. While at Mills\, Rutledge served as the fiction editor for 580 Split.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claudia-castro-luna/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:DISCOVERY
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Public Works SF for six stories of rigorous inquiry and accidental revelations\, seeking the unfamiliar and encountering the unknown\, and uncovering the uncharted\nODD SALON: DISCOVERY\n  \nTuesday\, April 9th 2019 \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \n*Discounted Early Bird Tickets are available only up to Midnight\, Monday Feb18.* \n  \nJoin our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more: Odd Salon Membership \nGET TICKETS>
URL:https://litseen.com/event/discovery/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Michael Brownstein an Julien Poirier
DESCRIPTION:Poet and novelist Michael Brownstein’s new book\, Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations\, includes provocative poems such as “After Patriarchy Collapses and Capitalism Crumbles\,” “The Jewish Poem\,” “Slipping the Leash” and the title poem — works transcending the political into a vision of what is possible on a global scale. \nJulien Poirier is the author of Out of Print (City Lights\, 2016) among other books. His poems have appeared in the New York Times\, Dispatches and elsewhere. He teaches poetry at San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-michael-brownstein-an-julien-poirier/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings
DESCRIPTION:Because everyone deserves a Happy Ending!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Michael Brownstein
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, Apr 09\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nPoet and novelist Michael Brownstein’s new book\, Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations\, includes provocative poems such as “After Patriarchy Collapses and Capitalism Crumbles\,” “The Jewish Poem\,” “Slipping the Leash” and the title poem — works transcending the political into a vision of what is possible on a global scale. \nThe poems in Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations urge us to abandon today’s ruthlessly competitive mindset that is running our future into the ground. They expose nationalism for what it is — a myth separating us from our common humanity. We have forgotten who profits from this separation: the corporate\, political\, and military leaders of phantom entities created in our name. \nLet’s Burn the Flags of All Nations is a handbook for change. It calls on us to free ourselves from the fictions fed to us since childhood about who we are\, asking if we have what it takes to work out a new life: \n“It’s time to risk everything\nOpen the gates\, tear down the fences\nRoam wherever we like along\nRivers and mountains without end\nBecause we ourselves\nAre those rivers and mountains…” \n“Bold and inspiring\, unyielding in their rigorous truth\, these poems work to transform habitual patterns of fear and greed into the sane and generous life we all deserve. Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations should be required reading for everyone.” (Lynne Twist\, author of The Soul of Money) \n“These tough\, uncompromising poems of witness\, rage\, and anarchic wit unmasks the dysfunction of the human realm as it presses its Anthropocene agenda on the rest of the universe. They call for the end of patriarchy.” (Anne Waldman\, author of Trickster Feminism) \n“Wonderful\, powerful poems that excite the heart and reveal truths behind the so-called patriotism that feeds into the hands of the 1%.” (John Perkins\, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man) \n“Michael Brownstein’s new collection sees through the spectral delusions of our age and points toward the potential for a planetary awakening into a state of unified consciousness and cooperative being.” (Daniel Pinchbeck\, author of How Soon Is Now?) \n“Both bardic and vatic – that is\, both poetic and prophetic – this book says truth with druidic intensity.” (Peter Lamborn Wilson\, author of Ec(o)logues) \n“These heartfelt poems express the pain and beauty of being alive in this most challenging of times.” (Starhawk\, author of The Earth Path) \n* * * \nMichael Brownstein grew up rural. His first glimpse of a collective human destiny – urban version – came while taking part in the events of May ’68 in Paris. (People pouring into the streets from out of nowhere without doubt or hesitation…) He is the author of three novels – Self-Reliance\, The Touch\, and Country Cousins – as well as ten poetry titles including World on Fire\, a book-length poem about corporate globalization and consciousness change. Michael taught at Naropa Institute during its formative years. He lives in the Catskill mountains.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-michael-brownstein/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:RUTH REICHL In Conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:RUTH REICHL\nIn Conversation with Steven Winn\nTuesday\, April 9\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRuth Reichl is the bestselling author of the memoirs Tender at the Bone\, Comfort Me With Apples\, Garlic and Sapphires\, andFor You\, Mom\, Finally; the novel Delicious!. She was editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years. Previously she was the restaurant critic for The New York Times and served as the food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards for her journalism\, magazine feature writing\, and criticism. Her forthcoming memoir\, Save Me the Plums\, will be published in April 2019. \n  \nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Good Housekeeping\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. He is the author of Come Back\, Como.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruth-reichl-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Howard Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Howard joins us to launch her new novel\, The Risk of Us. \n\nPraise for The Risk of Us \n“An emotionally complex and amazingly suspenseful novel about love and fear.”—Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“I’ve never read anything so beautiful about the intricacies of adoption—the process itself\, and the seldom-talked-about aftermath. The prose is elegant and compressed; I often had to stop reading to catch my breath. Anyone who has ever loved a child\, in any capacity\, should read this book.”— Jamie Quatro\, author of I Want to Show You More and Fire Sermon \n“Rachel Howard’s The Risk of Us (so accurately titled) is a novel of deep pain yet also laughs—lots of them. Nothing is easy in this book\, and that’s as it should be. With risk comes a kind of awesome grace. A wonderfully written and candid examination of what it means to be a family.”— Peter Orner\, author of Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge and Love and Shame and Love \n\nAbout The Risk of Us \nA poignant\, dazzling debut novel about a woman who longs to be a mother and the captivating yet troubled child she and her husband take in. \nWhat is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens\, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system\, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa—with inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon–comes into their lives\, their hearts fill with love. But her rages and troubles threaten to crack open their marriage. Over the course of a year\, as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place\, the couple must decide if they can be the parents this child needs\, and finalize the adoption—or\, almost unthinkably\, give her up. \nFor fans of Jenny Offill and Rachel Cusk\, The Risk of Us deftly explores the inevitable tests children bring to a marriage\, the uncertainties of family life\, and the ways true empathy obliterates our defenses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-howard-book-launch/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Freud's Bar - - details to come!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 10\n6:30pm\nAd Event \nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud’s Bar on Wednesday\, April 10th at 6:30pm. Presenter tbd. \nAre you interested in the world of psychology but afraid you may not understand all of the terms and jargon? Join us for monthly talks given by local Bay Area psychoanalysts. You don’t need to be a psychologist to check out Freud’s Bar. Just bring your interest and a friend! \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER \nmore to come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 10\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/freuds-bar-details-to-come/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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