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SUMMARY:Marquis Bey in conversation with Andrew Cutrone
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nAnarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism \npublished by AK Press \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) in the near future \n———— \n(PurchaseBook Here) link to be posted in the near future \n————- \nIn this bold and expansive treatise\, Marquis Bey seeks to define the shape of a Black anarchism—not\, he says\, by listing “all the Black people who are anarchists and the anarchists who are Black people\,” but though a fluid and generative encounter between anarchism and Blackness. \nClassical anarchism tended to avoid questions of race—specifically Blackness—as well as the intersections of race and gender. Skeptical of satisfying himself with the usual finger-pointing this lack invites\, Bey addresses it head on\, not by constructing a new cannon of Black anarchists but by outlining how anarchism and Blackness already share a certain subjective relationship to power\, a way of understanding and inhabiting the world. Through the lens of a Black feminist and transgender theory that unsettles and subverts social hierarchies\, he explores what we can learn by making the kinship of Blackness and anarchism explicit\, including how anarchism itself is transformed by the encounter. \nAs Bey frames it\, if the state is predicated on a racialized and gendered capitalism\, its undoing can only be imagined and undertaken by a political theory that takes race and gender seriously\, a theory of anarcho-Blackness. \nMarquis Bey is Assistant Professor of African American Literature and English at Northwestern University. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marquis-bey-in-conversation-with-andrew-cutrone/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200818T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200818T190000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #63 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! Even if you cannot make it\, please help support the show from afar by donating. \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-63-music-by-tba/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200818T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200818T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Alexandra Fuller\, Travel Light\, Move Fast
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online event with bestselling author Alexandra Fuller who will discuss her new memoir Travel Light\, Move Fast\, a beautifully written and deeply loving portrait of her father. “[Fuller’s] family remains endlessly fascinating and delightful companions for long-time readers and new ones alike. . . A gorgeously written tribute to a life well lived and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable loss and grief.” —Booklist\, starred review  \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nFrom the bestselling author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight\, a warm and candid memoir of grief\, a deeply-felt tribute to her father\, and a compulsively readable continuation of a brilliant series of books on her family. “[Fuller] sifted through a lifetime of memories in order to pen this celebration of the man whose profound influence helped shape her own worldview. [She]writes gracefully about embracing grief as an indelible part of the human experience. Another elegant memoir from a talented storyteller.”—Kirkus Reviews \nAlexander Fuller was born in England in 1969. In 1972\, she moved with her family to a farm in southern Africa. She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In 1994\, she moved to Wyoming. She is the author of several memoirs\, including Leaving Before the Rains Come\, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness\, and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-alexandra-fuller-travel-light-move-fast/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200819T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200819T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Darin Strauss (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 19th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT \nDarin Strauss \nin conversation with Kelly Corrigan \n\nConversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \n  \nDarin Strauss’ new novel\, The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story\, mixes fact and fiction\, memoir and novel\, to explore the conceit that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Hollywood’s Lucille Ball. \nDarin is the acclaimed author of the memoir Half a Life\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography\, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice\, an Entertainment Weekly “Must List” selection\, a Chicago Tribune Editor’s Pick\, and one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the renowned author of the novels Chang and Eng\, The Real McCoy\, and the international bestseller More Than It Hurts You. He is a compelling speaker whose experience includes universities\, libraries\, book festivals\, and corporations. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing\, Darin is a clinical associate professor at NYU’s creative writing program. \nKelly Corrigan‘s Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say is a wonderfully personal\, honest\, and hilarious examination of the essential phrases that make love and connection possible. She has been called “the voice of her generation” by O: The Oprah Magazine and “the poet laureate of the ordinary” by HuffPost. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Middle Place\, Lift\, and Glitter and Glue. Kelly is the host of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan premiering on PBS October 5 and the host of a new podcast coming from PRX\, also in October.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-darin-strauss-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200819T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200819T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Sara Campos
DESCRIPTION:Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses her new novel\, The New Americans\, with Sara Campos. \nSelect praise for Micheline Aharonian Marcom \n“The fierce beauty of her prose both confronts readers with many breathtaking cruelties and carries us past them.”The New York Times \n“Powerful…Marcom’s writing is intensely poetic.”Washington Post \n“Lyrical…Marcom is so talented.”Chicago Tribune \n“Dazzling and disquieting.”Los Angeles Times \n“Marcom’s seamless\, ethereal prose is suffused with raw emotion; there is heart-break on every page\, but also hope.”San Francisco Chronicle \nAbout The New American \nIn this timely and emotionally powerful novel\, award-winning author Micheline A. Marcom recounts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan-American college student\, a “dreamer\,” who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California. \nEmilio believes he is living the American Dream: his parents\, who emigrated from Guatemala to California\, sacrifice daily to ensure it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like most teenagers\, Emilio is determined to get his driver’s license—however\, his mother discourages it. When Emilio asks why\, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. \nEmilio adjusts to his new normal. He attends UC Berkeley. He falls in love. All is going well…until Emilio gets into a car accident and—without a driver’s license or any documentation—the policeman on the scene reports him to Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE]. \nEmilio is deported to Guatemala. But he is determined to get back to California\, the only home he has ever known. It is an epic journey that takes him across thousands of miles through remote towns\, lush jungles\, and eventually the Sonoran Desert of the US-Mexico border\, meeting thieves and corrupt law enforcement but also kind strangers and new friends. \nInspired in part by interviews with Central American refugees\, and told in lyrical prose\, Micheline A. Marcom weaves a heart-pounding and heartbreaking tale of adventure. The New American is an important and well-timed novel that asks us what we have in common—across cultures\, experiences\, and borders—and what makes us not only American\, but altogether human. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-micheline-aharonian-marcom-and-sara-campos/
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200819T200000
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SUMMARY:This is Now - Unbreaking Government
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nAmidst the political morass the US has become\, some are voicing the unthinkable: has American democracy’s long\, ambitious run come to an end? How much power do we have to mend our breaches\, fix our political system and our economy\, and lift those who’ve been left behind? \nWilliam G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy\, chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago\, director of the Center for Effective Government\, and co-host of the Not Another Politics podcast. Terry M. Moe is the William Bennett Munro Professor in Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. These two expert political minds are cautiously optimistic we can extract ourselves from the mess we’re in. But it won’t be an easy road. \nHowell & Moe’s new book Presidents\, Populism\, and the Crisis of Democracy tracks the troubling rise of Donald Trump to socio-economic forces—such as globalization\, technological change\, and immigration—that have generated widespread populist anger and will continue to do so long after he leaves office. In order to defuse the populist threat to democracy\, they say\, the nation needs to embrace programs and reforms that will ensure a more effective government for solving the complex and vexing problems of modernity.  At the center of this reform project is a recrafting of the presidency to take advantage of its great promise and to guard against its dangers. \nKepler’s Literary Foundation’s journalist in residence\, Angie Coiro\, brings us the latest in our This Is Now series focusing on culture and politics. Join Angie\, William Howell\, and Terry Moe for a nuanced discussion of what can truly improve the odds of our country’s survival. \n**Please consider joining with a donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited. **  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Refresh The Page\, This Is Now
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-unbreaking-government/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T190000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 20\, 7:00pm\nfeaturing Caroline Goodwin \nonline on Zoom\nregistration link to come \nbio to come \nUpcoming at Third Thursdays:\nSeptember: Peter Carroll
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-library-4/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Lloyd Kahn\, The Half-Acre Homestead
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with green architecture pioneer Lloyd Kahn for a presentation of his new book\, The Half-Acre Homestead: 46 Years of Building and Gardening. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\nLloyd\, the former shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog\, has published seven books on owner building\, showcasing hundreds of builders\, but this is his first book on his own work\, and that of his wife Lesley\, in building and house and creating a garden in the seaside town of Bolinas over a 46-year period. \nThe Half-Acre Homestead chronicles how Lloyd and Lesley started with a vacant half-acre piece of land\, built their own home\, created a garden with vegetables and fruit\, and raised chickens\, bees\, and goats. The book also covers cooking\, foraging\, fishing\, crafts\, birds\, butterflies\, and tools. All of their work was done by hand and they have never paid rent or had a mortgage. \nOver 500 photos illustrate all the above facets of their lives and provide clear explanations of building skylights\, maintaining a septic system\, building greenhouses and raised vegetable beds. There is a section on unique kitchen tools\, as well as advice on useful tools used in construction. The Half-Acre Homestead is filled with advice for anyone thinking of building a home these days. \nLloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early ’60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late ’60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building\, all of which are interrelated. The books\, “The Shelter Library Of Building Books\,” include Shelter\, Shelter II (1978)\, Home Work (2004)\, Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008)\, Tiny Homes (2012)\, and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from a Northern California studio built of recycled lumber\, set in the midst of a vegetable garden\, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. \nKahn lived in Santa Cruz in the ’50s. He was a surfer before wetsuits\, and was a beach lifeguard in 1955. He also lifeguarded at the Santa Cruz Plunge and taught swimming at The Plunge at Pleasure Point. He went into the insurance business in 1960\, and was Jack O’Neill’s first insurance broker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lloyd-kahn-the-half-acre-homestead/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T193000
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SUMMARY:[Virtual Ruby] AUTHORS OF COLOR BOOK CLUB: The Revisioners by Margaret
DESCRIPTION:[This is a Virtual Ruby* event\, taking place over Zoom. Nonmembers are welcome to join; please donate if you are able!] \nJean Rhys said that “reading makes immigrants of us all\,” that “it takes us away from home\, but more important\, it finds homes for us everywhere.” Now more than ever\, it’s vital—and heartening—to read\, and read widely. We’ll read thrilling\, mind-blowing\, intriguing\, heartbreaking\, comic\, strange\, and/or provocative books by women and nonbinary people of color—and\, each month\, we’ll gather to talk about what we’ve read! When possible\, we’ll also have the writer join us. \nThis August\, we’ll be reading THE REVISIONERS by local author and friend of The Ruby\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Margaret will be joining us for the discussion. \nAbout THE REVISIONERS \n“Sexton takes on [Toni Morrison’s artful invocation of the ghost] in her new novel The Revisioners. . . She writes with such a clear sense of place and time that each of these intermingled stories feels essential and dramatic in its own way.” —Ron Charles\, The Washington Post \n“A powerful tale of racial tensions across generations.” —People \nIn 1924\, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child\, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor\, a white woman named Charlotte\, seeks her company\, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan\, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine’s family. \nNearly one hundred years later\, Josephine’s descendant\, Ava\, is a single mother who has just lost her job. She moves in with her white grandmother\, Martha\, a wealthy but lonely woman who pays Ava to be her companion. But Martha’s behavior soon becomes erratic\, then threatening\, and Ava must escape before her story and Josephine’s converge. \nThe Revisioners explores the depths of women’s relationships—powerful women and marginalized women\, healers and survivors. It is a novel about the bonds between mothers and their children\, the dangers that upend those bonds. At its core\, The Revisioners ponders generational legacies\, the endurance of hope\, and the undying promise of freedom. \nAbout MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON \nMARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON\, born and raised in New Orleans\, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, was long-listed for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award\, won the Crook’s Corner Book Prize\, and was the recipient of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ruby-authors-of-color-book-club-the-revisioners-by-margaret-tickets-90537549247
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ruby-authors-of-color-book-club-the-revisioners-by-margaret/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T200000
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-9/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200821T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200821T170000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Chuck Palahniuk / The Invention of Sound
DESCRIPTION:​Berkeley Arts & Letters hosts Chuck Palahniuk for his new novel The Invention of Sound. Please save the date and join us! \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a ticketed virtual event. \n>  Each ticket includes admission for one person and 1 *signed* copy of The Invention of Sound. No exceptions. \n\nGates Foster lost his daughter\, Lucy\, seventeen years ago. He’s never stopped searching. Suddenly\, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade\, and he may finally be on the verge of discovering the awful truth. \nMeanwhile\, Mitzi Ives has carved out a space among the Foley artists creating the immersive sounds giving Hollywood films their authenticity. Using the same secret techniques as her father before her\, she’s become an industry-leading expert in the sound of violence and horror\, creating screams so bone-chilling\, they may as well be real. \nSoon Foster and Ives find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood’s glamorous façade. A grim and disturbing reflection on the commodification of suffering and the dangerous power of art\, The Invention of Sound is Chuck Palahniuk at the peak of his literary powers — his most suspenseful\, most daring\, and most genre-defying work yet. \n \nChuck Palahniuk has been a nationally bestselling author since his first novel\, 1996’s Fight Club\, was made into the acclaimed David Fincher film of the same name. Palahniuk’s work has sold millions of copies worldwide. He lives outside Portland\, Oregon. \n\nPlease note: \n\nThis is a ticketed\, virtual event.\nThis event is all-ages\, with mature themes.\nThe runtime of the show is subject to the author’s preference.\nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final.\nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of the book\, or if you’d like to order an additional signed copy\, order here or below.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-berkeley-arts-letters-presents-chuck-palahniuk-the-invention-of-sound/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200821T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200821T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Chuck Prophet and Stevie Simkin
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, August 21 at 12pm PDT for an afternoon with musician Chuck Prophet and Stevie Simkin\, author of What Makes the Monkey Dance: The Life and Music of Chuck Prophet and Green on Red on Zoom!\nModerated by Daniel Strickland. \nNOTE: This is a ticketed event.\nTickets are available here\, and include a copy of What Makes the Monkey Dance and exclusive access to the Zoom event.\nCopies of your book will be available for shipping or in-store pick up. \n\nAbout What Makes the Monkey Dance \n“How do you define success? If you let somebody else define what success is\, you’re a sucker. I’m no sucker.” \nChuck Prophet started out as a post-punk California kid who helped kick-start the alt-country genre when he joined Dan Stuart’s Green On Red\, then making a name for themselves as part of the so-called Paisley Underground alongside bands like The Dream Syndicate and The Bangles. While Green On Red established a reputation for self-destruction illuminated by flashes of brilliance in the studio and on festival stages around Europe in the late 1980s\, Prophet simultaneously immersed himself in roots music and forged a solo career via backroom and basement venues across his adopted home of San Francisco. He has emerged as one of the most respected musicians of his generation\, admired for his talents as a songwriter\, guitarist\, vocalist\, and live performer. He has worked with the likes of Tony Visconti and Warren Zevon\, and his songs have been performed by artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen and Solomon Burke. \nThose who know him through his social-media presence or his live shows are well aware that no one tells a story quite like Chuck Prophet; here\, his voice rings clearly from the first page to the last as he gives his perspective on writing\, recording\, and performing\, and talks candidly about his struggles and remarkable recovery from years of addiction. As Prophet’s official archivist\, author Stevie Simkin draws on over a hundred hours of interviews with his subject\, as well as contributions from fellow musicians\, producers\, friends\, and associates\, and unique access to unreleased songs and live recordings and scores of previously unseen photographs. Time and again\, Simkin puts the reader in the room with Chuck as he talks\, or in the studio as he plays\, and the live experience is captured from both sides of the stage monitors. \nAn exciting rock’n’roll odyssey\, What Makes The Monkey Dance is essential reading for every fan of this phenomenal artist\, but also for anyone with an interest in alternative music during a period seismic change\, offering a fascinating portrait of how a true artist has managed to carve out a career at the sharp end of a notoriously ruthless industry.” \n\nAbout the Author \nStevie Simkin (MA\, PhD) is Reader in Drama and Film at the University of Winchester\, England. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles and book chapters about theatre\, cinema\, and popular music. He is Chuck Prophet’s official archivist and is currently assisting with a reissue program due to begin in 2020. \n\nNOTE: This is a ticketed event.\nTickets are available here\, and include a copy of What Makes the Monkey Dance and exclusive access to the Zoom event.\nCopies of your book will be available for shipping or in-store pick up.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-chuck-prophet-and-stevie-simkin/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading
DESCRIPTION:SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center.  For a month QTIPOC writers work with SUYS Program Manager to virtually uncover archival content around a specific queer theme\, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month in a digital forum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-show-us-your-spines-resident-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200822T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200822T113000
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SUMMARY:Jack & Agyu: Children's Story Time with Justine Villanueva
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children’s story time featuring a live read-aloud of Filipino children’s book\, Jack and Agyu\, with author Justine Villanueva. \n​Jack & Agyu is written in English and includes a translation in Binukid\, one of the indigenous languages in Bukidnon\, a region in the south of the Philippines. The book also provides translations into Filipino\, the national language of the Philippines\, and Bisaya-Cebuano\, one of the major languages in the Philippines. Additionally\, the book features the Baybayin script\, a Tagalog based ancient script. \nAbout the book:\nJack & Agyu tells the story of an imaginative and adventurous young boy\, Jack\, who longs to find himself in the books that he reads. Crushed when he realizes he is different looking from all his favorite book characters\, he goes off to right what he feels is wrong. His path leads him to trouble but\, also\, to healing and empowerment as he reconnects with the stories of his ancestors from the Philippines. \nVibrantly illustrated by Lynnor Bontigao with characters based on Filipino mythology- the sirena (mermaid)\, syokoy (mermen)\, and diwata (fairies)\, to name a few- Jack & Agyu is sure to draw kids into an adventure that is exciting as much as it is self-affirming! \nJack and Agyu is the winner of the 2020 Gold Benjamin Franklin Award in the Children’s Picture Book (4-7 years) Category. \nAbout the Author:\nJustine Villanueva traces her ancestral roots to the Bukidnon tribe of Kalasungay\, Bukidnon. She is the third child of Julieta Li and Ernesto Villanueva\, a fifth child of Filemon Villanueva and Felipa Okit\, a descendant of Apu Mansaliwa. Justine’s creative work focuses on decolonization\, social justice\, and learning to reconnect with the living Earth. She lives in Davis\, California with her husband and two young boys. www.justinevillanueva.com \nAbout the Illustrator:\nLynnor Bontigao graduated from the University of the Philippines with a fine arts degree in visual communications. Her love of children’s books began when she joined Ilustrador ng Kabataan (InK\, a Philippines-based group of children’s books illustrators). In New York\, she worked as a programmer for 15 years but she never forgot her love of drawing. She now pursues her dream of making picture books that both kids and kids at heart will enjoy. Lynnor lives in New Jersey with her husband\, two kids\, and one tiny dog. www.lynnorbontigao.com \nAutographed copies of Jack & Agyu\, along with Villanueva’s first trilingual children’s book Mama\, Mama\, Do You Know What I Like?\, are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jack-agyu-childrens-story-time-with-justine-villanueva/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200823T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200823T130000
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SUMMARY:Meera Sriram VIRTUAL LAUNCH
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the publication of her picture book A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India.  \nTo register\, go to: \nhttps://www.crowdcast.io/e/book-launch-a-gift-for-amma/ \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, August 23\, 2020 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nA young girl explores the vibrant rainbow of items for sale in a southern Indian street market as she searches for a gift for her mother. Includes facts about the items mentioned and markets around the world\, as well as photographs taken by the author in her hometown of Chennai\, India. \nThis #OwnVoices book includes facts about the items mentioned and markets around the world\, as well as photographs taken by the author in her hometown. Endnotes explain all the items on sale and introduce readers to markets around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meera-sriram-virtual-launch/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200823T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200823T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011404
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SUMMARY:The Tree and the Vine: The Queer Fiction of Dola de Jong
DESCRIPTION:City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in conjunction with Transit Books present \nEditor Kristen Gehrman in conversation with Jennifer Croft \n   \ncelebrating the new book \nThe Tree and the Vine \nby Dola de Jong \nTranslated from the Dutch by Kristen Gehrman \npublished by Transite Books \n(Purchase Book Here) in the near future \nWhen Bea meets Erica at the home of a mutual friend\, this chance encounter sets the stage for the story of two women torn between desire and taboo in the years leading up to the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. Erica\, a reckless young journalist\, pursues passionate but abusive affairs with different women. Bea\, a reserved secretary\, grows increasingly obsessed with Erica\, yet denial and shame keep her from recognizing her attraction. Only Bea’s discovery that Erica is half-Jewish and a member of the Dutch resistance—and thus in danger—brings her closer to accepting her own feelings. \nFirst published in 1954 in the Netherlands\, Dola de Jong’s The Tree and the Vine was a groundbreaking work in its time for its frank and sensitive depiction of the love between two women\, now available in a new translation. \n———– \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nDola de Jong (1911–2003) was born Dorothea Rosalie de Jong in Arnhem\, The Netherlands. She worked as a dancer and a reporter before she fled the country in 1940. Settling first with her husband in Tangiers\, she immigrated to the United States. She was the author of sixteen books for adults and children\, including The Tree and the Vine and The Field\, which won the City of Amsterdam Literature Prize in 1947. \nKristen Gehrman lives in The Hague\, The Netherlands. Originally from Charleston\, South Carolina\, she studied linguistics and literary translation at the University of Lausanne\, Switzerland. In addition to her work as a literary translator\, she teaches translation\, editing\, and writing at Leiden University and VU Amsterdam. \nJennifer Croft is an American author\, critic and translator who works from Polish\, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. With the author Olga Tokarczuk\, she was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Flights.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-tree-and-the-vine-the-queer-fiction-of-dola-de-jong/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200824T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200824T130000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues\, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This fourth event in the series features Erin Hatton discussing her book Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\n\nWhat do prisoner laborers\, graduate students\, welfare workers\, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton\, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. \nCoerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers\, for whom a different definition of “employment” reigns supreme—one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power\, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy\, Hatton argues that coercion—as well as precarity—is a defining feature of work in America today. \nTheoretically forceful yet vivid and gripping to read\, Coerced compels the reader to reevaluate contemporary dynamics of work\, pushing beyond concepts like “career” and “gig work.” Through this bold analysis\, Hatton offers a trenchant window into this world of work from the perspective of those who toil within it—and who are developing the tools needed to push back against it. \n\n\n \nErin Hatton is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo. \n\n\n\n\nUC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith \n\n\n\n\n\n8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century\n8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies\n8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration\n8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment\n8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\n9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have Coerced sent to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-erin-hatton-coerced-work-under-threat-of-punishment/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200824T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200824T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Richard Kadrey / Ballistic Kiss
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Upstream author Richard Kadrey to celebrate his new novel Ballistic Kiss\, the latest and penultimate volume in his Sandman Slim series. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  We are pleased to be able to offer signed copies of Ballistic Kiss! You can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration – just be sure to request a signed copy when checking out. \n\nSandman Slim is back in Los Angeles and kicking more supernatural ass in this inventive\, high-octane page-turner—the next to last volume in the popular and acclaimed fantasy adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. \nAs the battle between warring angels continues\, James Stark is focused on seemingly simpler matters now that he’s resurfaced on earth: an invasion of ghosts. L.A.’s Little Cairo neighborhood has suddenly been overrun by violent spirits\, and Thomas Abbott knows if anyone can figure out why they’ve appeared—and how to get rid of them—it’s Stark. \nArmed with the Room of Thirteen Doors\, Stark quickly learns that the answer may reach back to the 1970s and the unsolved murder of small-time actor\, Chris Stein. As he begins to dig into the cold case\, another area of Stark’s life takes an unexpected turn when he becomes entangled with Janet\, a woman he saved during the High Plains Drifter zombie attack. \nJanet’s brush with the living dead hasn’t quenched her thirst for danger. She’s an adrenaline junkie and a member of The Zero Lodge—a club that promises “there’s zero chance you’ll get out alive.” The Lodge attracts thrill seekers who flock to perilous events such as night walks through the LA Zoo—with its deadliest animals uncaged. Joining the lodge to be with Janet\, Stark makes a pair of crucial discoveries that could decide the fate of LA and Heaven itself. \nTo prevent the Little Cairo haunting from consuming the city\, Stark must piece together the connections between the Lodge and a missing angel last seen in a Hollywood porn palace. But while he may dispatch the ghosts\, Stark knows that without his help\, the bloody war in Heaven could rage forever. \n\n \nRichard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime\,” and is in development as a feature film. Some of his other books include The Wrong Dead Guy\, The Everything Box\, Metrophage\, and Butcher Bird. He also writes the Vertigo comic Lucifer. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-richard-kadrey-ballistic-kiss/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200825T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200825T191000
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SUMMARY:George Dyson (Online)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nThe hacker historian and author behind 2012’s Turing’s Cathedral returns to Kepler’s for the release of Analogia\, a boldly philosophical book which explores the arc of technology from the stone ages to the predicted point of singularity. How has technology shaped humanity through time\, and what lays in store when we develop technologies beyond our programmable control? \nDyson offers a rich historical glance that sweeps centuries\, peppered with autobiographical elements including Freeman Dyson’s work on TRIGA (the safe nuclear reactor used around the word to create medical isotopes)\, and his own 1972 stint squatting on land in British Columbia in a tree house of his own design to get some distance from that very legacy. Dyson even delves into his noted love of kayak design. The resulting book is a treasure of philosophy\, science\, history\, biography\, and the ways we as human beings shift with emerging scientific breakthroughs. He pays especial attention to the development of complex networks and artificial intelligence. \nAfter a sweeping four-part review of technology to date\, Dyson projects into the future to suggest that perhaps machines and nature could join forces against… us. Don’t miss the author in person as he shares his expertise\, exquisite logic and peerless prose. RSVP now to reserve your space in the webinar\, and our emerging technological future. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.** \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Refresh The Page
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-dyson-online/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200825T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200825T200000
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SUMMARY:Martin Jay in conversation with Paul Breines
DESCRIPTION:discussing Martin Jay’s new book \nSplinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations \npublished by Verso Press \nThe evening will begin with a short introduction by Robert Kaufman \nAssessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first century. \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(REGISTER HERE) link to be posted soon! \n————– \n(Purchase Book Here) link to be posted soon! \n————– \nAlthough successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances\, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture\, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the school’s history and reading its work in unexpected ways\, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer\, Adorno\, Benjamin\, Marcuse\, Löwenthal\, and Kracauer in our troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument\, they range over a wide variety of topics\, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis\, from Benjamin’s ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man\, from Löwenthal’s role in Weimar’s Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer’s involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of colour in modern art\, the Jewish prohibition on images\, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere\, and the implications of a celebrated Family of Man photographic exhibition. The collection ends with an essay tracing the still metastasising demonisation of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of “cultural Marxism” and “political correctness\,” which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics. \nMartin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he taught Modern European Intellectual History and Critical Theory for forty-five years. Among his works are The Dialectical Imagination; Marxism and Totality; Adorno; Permanent Exiles; Fin-de-siècle Socialism; Force Fields; Downcast Eyes; Cultural Semantics; Refractions of Violence; Songs of Experience; The Virtues of Mendacity; Essays from the Edge; Kracauer: l’exilé; and Reason after Its Eclipse. He has been a regular columnist for Salmagundi since 1987. \nPaul Breines was a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison\, Wisconsin and a member of the Student Council on Civil Rights when he was arrested for his participation in the Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. As part of the Freedom Ride Breines\, along with three other students\, traveled from Nashville\, Tennessee to Jackson\, Mississippi via a Greyhound bus where all four participants were arrested in the Greyhound terminal in Jackson\, Mississippi on 21 July 1961. Paul Breines is also Associate Professor Emeritus of History at Boston College. He is the author of TOUGH JEWS: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry\, and co-author of The Young Lukaacs and the Origins of Western Marxism. \nRobert Kaufman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley\, where he also teaches in\, and is former co-director of\, the interdisciplinary Program in Critical Theory. His teaching and research emphasize several interrelated areas\, the Frankfurt School being one in particular. Kaufman is the author of Negatvive Romaticism: Adornian Aesthetics in Keats\, Shelley\, and Modern Poetry (forthcoming from Cornell University Press)\, and is at work on two related studies: Why Poetry Should Matter—to the Left: Frankfurt Constellations of Democracy and Modernism after Postmodernism? Robert Duncan and the Future-Present of American Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martin-jay-in-conversation-with-paul-breines/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200825T190000
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SUMMARY:THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, August 25\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN by Hendrik Groen. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82208141566. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpSecretDiary\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/SecretDiaryAB. \n\nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nJust because you’re old doesn’t mean you can’t have fun and adventure. Hendrik is a rebel\, determined to live life to the fullest. \n— Mike \n  \nDescription\n\nA #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove: a funny and tender-hearted tale about friendship\, love\, and an old man who is young at heart.\nTechnically speaking\, Hendrik Groen is….elderly. But at age 83 1/4\, this feisty\, indomitable curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums\, exasperated by the indignities of aging\, Hendrik has decided to rebel – on his own terms. He begins writing an exposé: secretly recording the antics of day-to-day life in his retirement home\, where he refuses to take himself\, or his fellow “inmates\,” too seriously. \n  \nWith an eccentric group of friends\, he founds the wickedly anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club\, and he and his best friend\, Evert\, gleefully stir up trouble\, enraging the home’s humorless director and turning themselves into unlikely heroes. And when a sweet and sassy widow moves in next door\, he polishes his shoes\, grooms what’s left of his hair\, and determines to savor every ounce of joy in the time he has left\, with hilarious and tender consequences. \n  \nA bestselling phenomenon that has captured imaginations around the world\, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen is inspiring\, charming\, and laugh-out-loud funny with a deep and poignant core: a page-turning delight for readers of any age. \nAbout the Author\n\nHendrik Groen started his diary on the literary website of Torpedo Magazine. He says about his novel: “There’s not one sentence that’s a lie\, but not every word is true.” The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen has been translated into over twenty languages. \nPraise For…\n\n“Amusing [and] wickedly accurate…Reading The Secret Diary\, I was constantly put in mind of Ken Kesey’s madhouse tale One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest\, another comi-tragedy concerning the tyranny of institutions of the unwanted. Enjoy Groen’s light touch but do not be fooled by it….The Secret Diary is a handbook of resistance for our time.”—The Express (UK) \n“Funny and frank – a story with a great deal of heart.”—Graeme Simsion\, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project \n“A story about how friendship\, selflessness and dignity lie at the heart of the human experience. When I’m an old man\, I want to be Hendrik Groen.”—John Boyne\, internationally bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas \n“An incredible picture of friendship… something we could all stand to emulate\, no matter where we are in our lives.”—Bookpage\, Top Fiction Pick for July \n“Interspersed with Groen’s biting wit and comic take on aging and all it entails… A page-turning delight for adult readers of any age and locale.”—Booklist\, starred review \n“Poignant and true-to-life\, an international bestseller.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune \n“Engaging and hilarious\, Hendrik’s diary gives a dignity and respect to the elderly often overlooked in popular culture\, providing readers a look into the importance of friendship and the realities of the senior care system in modern society.”—Publisher’s Weekly \n“You might say he’s the Elena Ferrante of the octogenarian set – though whether or not he is actually an octogenarian (or a man) is also anyone’s guess. It’s an appealing novel with a lot of heart\, reminding readers young and old that fun is to be found even in the routine of everyday life. And of course\, the possibility that it’s more memoir than fiction is delightful.”—New York Post
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-secret-diary-of-hendrik-groen-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200825T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Dan Pfeiffer\, Un-Trumping America
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Dan Pfeiffer—White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013)\, Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015)\, and co-host of Pod Save America—for an online discussion with Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend about his book\, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again. This ticketed\, online event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and is cosponsored by Santa Cruz Indivisible. It will take place on the Crowdcast platform. \nPLEASE NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for March\, but was postponed due to Covid-19. If you already purchased tickets for the original event\, you are entitled to entry to this virtual event. If you purchased your tickets online\, please check your inbox for an email from Bookshop with information or click here. If you purchased your tickets in the store\,  please fill out the form linked here to register for the new online event. \nTickets for this virtual event are available for purchase on Eventbrite—click here! \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author\, cohost of Pod Save America\, and one of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors: a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump\, McConnell\, Fox News\, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics. \nThere is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020\, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: First\, Trump is not an aberration\, but rather the logical extension of the modern Republican Party; second\, how Democrats can defeat Trump in 2020; and third\, preventing the likes of Trump from ever happening again with a plan to fix democracy. \nDan Pfeiffer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and a cohost on Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors\, he was White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013) and Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015). He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife\, Howli\, and their daughter\, Kyla.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dan-pfeiffer-un-trumping-america-2/
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200826T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200826T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Two Languages / One Community with Poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith presents Two Languages / One Community with poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu. They will be reading from and discussing their work. \nTwo Languages / One Community brings together African American and Chinese American writers in a rare cultural exchange based on dialogue and storytelling. Workshop participants write poems and short stories based on memories sparked by photographs of their parents\, their younger selves\, and other family members. The writing is translated in Chinese and English and published online at www.twolanguagesonecommunity.com and in the Catching Memory book series. \n** Please note ** \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \nUse the links in the authors’ bios to purchase their books from Booksmith. You may also purchase Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin by Michael Warr and Little Green: A Memoir of Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Chun Yu when completing your registration. We are offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\n \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. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n \nChun Yu\, Ph.D. is the author of the multi-award-winning memoir Little Green (Simon & Schuster) and a historical graphic novel in progress (Macmillan) and more. Her work has been published in the award-winning anthology Veterans of War\, Veterans of Peace\, Open Doors\, Boston Herald\, MIT Tech Talk\, etc. Her new bilingual poetry collection in English and Chinese and her graphic novel on Chinese immigration experience have won San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity and Individual Artist Grants. Her work merges science\, art\, and spirituality based on her experiences as an immigrant from an ancient culture undergoing revolution to a new world of transformative science and technologies. She has won support from the Zellerbach Foundation and Poets & Writers etc. for her community work in poetry and writing. Chun holds a B.S. and M.S. from Peking University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers in chemistry\, and was a postdoctoral fellow at a Harvard-MIT joint program. Her website: www.chunyu.org. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nUse the links in the authors’ bios to purchase their books from Booksmith. You may also purchase Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin by Michael Warr and Little Green: A Memoir of Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Chun Yu when completing your registration. We are offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-two-languages-one-community-with-poets-michael-warr-and-chun-yu/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011404
CREATED:20200706T180815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T180815Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: David Eagleman\, Livewired
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book\, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. “Eagleman delivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity. In his view\, the brain’s ability to reconfigure connections between its different areas in response to feedback is ‘quite possibly the most gorgeous phenomenon in biology\,’ and also holds exciting practical applications. Eagleman’s skill as a teacher\, bold vision\, and command of current research will make this superb work a curious reader’s delight.” —Publishers Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-david-eagleman-livewired/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011404
CREATED:20200725T165102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200725T165102Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Vanessa Veselka / The Great Offshore Grounds
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Zazen author Vanessa Veselka for her new novel The Great Offshore Grounds. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  If you’d like a copy of The Great Offshore Grounds\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \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. \n\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 union organizer\, an independent record label owner\, a train hopper\, a waitress\, and a mother. She lives in Portland\, OR. \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have a copy of The Great Offshore Grounds sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-vanessa-veselka-the-great-offshore-grounds/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011404
CREATED:20200821T200643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200821T200643Z
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SUMMARY:ACCENTED | Nobody Ever Dies featuring Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
DESCRIPTION:Viet Thanh Nguyen will host a conversation featuring Thao Nguyen from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down for ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora \nThe Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED\, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers\, poets\, artists\, actors\, filmmakers\, scholars\, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora. \nHosted by Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer\, with co-host appearances by the She Who Has No Master(s) Collective\, guests will engage in virtual conversations and discussions regarding their work\, their stories\, and their communities\, with live Q&A sessions following each event.\n—\nThis installation of ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora show will be Thursday\, August 27th at 7:30 pm\, hosted by Pulitzer-prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and will feature musician\, songwriter\, and producer Thao Nguyen\, leader of the rock band Thao and The Get Down Stay Down. Thao has toured nationally and internationally for over 15 years\, and her latest album Temple was released in May on Ribbon Music. She recently performed for NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert and one of her most recent music videos for Phenom\, plays on the familiar format of being on a Zoom video call. She also produced the documentary Nobody Dies\, about her trip to Vietnam with her mother in 2015\, 20 years after the normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam\, as a first-person storytelling of her experience as a daughter of Vietnamese refugees returning to a long lost homeland. \nAbout the Guests:\nThao Nguyen is a musician\, songwriter and producer. She is the leader of the rock band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and has toured nationally and internationally for over 15 years. Her latest album Temple was released in May on Ribbon Music. Visit https://www.thaoandthegetdownstaydown.com/ for more information. \nAbout the Host:\nViet Thanh Nguyen is the author of The Sympathizer\, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War\, The Refugees\, and Race and Resistance: Literature\, Politics and Asian America. His most recent book was Chicken of the Sea\, done with his son Ellison. His next book is The Committed\, the sequel to The Sympathizer. \nDVAN is partnering with Eastwind Books of Berkeley for all book sales and shipping\, and books from featured authors will be available on https://asiabookcenter.com for a discounted price. \nAll funds raised for ACCENTED will go towards supporting DVAN’s mission to promote voices and stories of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora and connect them to diasporic communities all over the globe. \nThis program is sponsored by the DVAN@SFSU Project of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.\nFor more information about the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) please visit our website at https://dvan.org or follow us on Instagram (@weare_dvan) \nDVAN believes that the stories\, imaginaries\, and poetics of a thriving Vietnamese diaspora can unite our global community. Our mission is to celebrate and foster diasporic Vietnamese voices. DVAN presents nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry to empower Vietnamese artists in the diaspora and to promote understanding and dialogue within our community\, and with others. Our complex and diverse stories must be championed and passed on to current and future generations. We are refugees\, immigrants\, survivors\, and descendants\, and our stories must be heard.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/accented-nobody-ever-dies-featuring-thao-the-get-down-stay-down/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011404
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Deborah Bryant & Jana Marcus
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Deborah Bryant and Jana Marcus\, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post. Presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links\, including for this event\, will be emailed to you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-deborah-bryant-jana-marcus/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011404
CREATED:20200731T222730Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lysley Tenorio and Bruce Snider
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, August 28 at 6pm PDT when Lysley Tenorio and Bruce Snider discuss their new books\, The Son of Good Fortune and Fruit\, with author Molly Antopol on Zoom!\nAnd stop by on Saturday\, August 29 at 5pm when Lysley and Bruce join us for a special\, social distanced book signing for Independent Bookstore Day at\nGreen Apple Books on the Park (9th Ave)! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82440135001\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82440135001#  or +13462487799\,\,82440135001#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 824 4013 5001\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbNwRTXPQb \nAbout The Son of Good Fortune \nA bighearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino teenager as he redefines his relationships with his mother\, his culture\, and the place he calls home \nExcel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (typically in one of their town’s seventeen cemeteries)\, he carefully avoids the spotlight. \nBut Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother\, Maxima\, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather\, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago\, on Excel’s tenth birthday\, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever. “We are tago nang tago\,” she told him\, “hiding and hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life. \nCasting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood\, Excel takes a leap\, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City. Populated by drifters\, old hippies\, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible\, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider? \nThrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful\, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other. \nAbout Fruit \nBruce Snider’s third poetry collection grapples with what it means to be childless in a world obsessed with procreation. Poems move between the scientific and the biblical\, effortlessly sliding from the clinical landscape of a sperm bank to Mount Moriah as Abraham prepares Isaac for sacrifice. Exploring issues of sexuality\, lineage\, and mortality\, Snider delves into subjects as varied as the Creation Museum in Petersburg\, Kentucky; same-sex couple adoption; and Gregor Mendel’s death in 1884. Each poem builds into a broader examination of power and fragility\, domesticity and rebellion\, violence and devotion: heartrending vignettes of the aches and joys of growing up and testing the limits of nature and nurture. In language both probing and sensitive\, Fruit delivers its own conflicted and celebratory answers to pressing questions of life\, death\, love\, and biology.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lysley-tenorio-and-bruce-snider/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011404
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day 2020
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with Bookshop Santa Cruz!  \nIndependent Bookstore Day looks a little bit different this year\, but we will still be celebrating alongside more than 450 other bookstores nationwide. Highlights will include exclusive IBD items for sale\, an online Where’s Walt scavenger hunt\, and virtual book trivia. IBD harnesses the creative power of authors\, publishers\, and booksellers to celebrate the reading community and drive readers to brick and mortar bookstores. \nCOMING SOON: Check out this year’s exclusive items here\, only available on Saturday\, August 29th. \nALL DAY FUN: \n• ONLINE Scavenger Hunt: Where’s Walt\n• VIRTUAL Book Bingo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2020/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011404
CREATED:20200821T194641Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual and In-Store: Independent Bookstore Day
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate with us all day on Saturday\, August 29\, both in-store and online from the comfort fo your home. \nIn addition to indie-exclusive books and merch we will have available\, we will also have… \nClement St. Activites \nScavenger Hunt in-store and on your phone! \nBook Trivia you can win from your couch! \nIn-store Biography Boards which might make you an award-winning author! \nToni Morrison totes you can make yourself! \nVirtual storytime for kids (and their adults)!\n \n9th Ave. Activities \nBlind date books you might fall in love with! \nHourly Raffles of books from the future! \nOutdoor photobooth for smizing! \nPrisoners Literature Project book drive for incarcerated readers! \nLysley Tenorio and Bruce Snider will join us for a social distanced signing at 5pm for their books\nThe Son of Good Fortune and Fruit \n \nBrowser Books Activities  \nTreasure hunt in-store to win a mini prize or grand prize! \nStorytime for kids (and adults\, too!) \nBlow us away with your Book Puns! Using the hastags #bookpun and #bookstoreday2020 to win a prize!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-and-in-store-independent-bookstore-day/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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