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SUMMARY:How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly: The Green New Deal and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:This event is free & will be broadcast on Zoom. Sign up here to attend!\n\nStan Cox\, author of The Green New Deal and Beyond\, will join his Ecosphere Studies colleagues Wes Jackson\, Aubrey Streit Krug\, and Robert Jensen in a discussion of the need for climate policies that go far beyond new technology\, carbon taxes\, and other market-based approaches. The event is hosted by Breanna Draxler\, Climate Editor at YES!\n\nThe speakers will explore\, as well\, the fundamental changes that our society will have to go through in order to adapt to strict ecological boundaries.\n\nAbout the participants:\n\nBreanna Draxler (host) is Climate Editor at YES!\, covering science and the environment with a particular focus on solutions. She serves on the board for the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Northwest Science Writers Association.  She joins us from Seattle\, WA.\n\nRobert Jensen (moderator) is a Contributing Editor at YES! Magazine\, and Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas in Austin. He collaborates with The Land Institute’s Ecosphere Studies program. His books include Plain Radical: Living\, Loving\, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully.  He joins us from Arroyo Seco\, NM.\n\n\nStan Cox is a research fellow in Ecosphere Studies at The Land Institute. His most recent book is The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can (City Lights Books\, 2020). He joins us from Salina\, KS.\n\n\nWes Jackson\, president emeritus of The Land Institute in Salina\, Kansas\, is the author and editor of numerous books\, including Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson and Consulting the Genius of the Place. His newest work\, a book of true stories about people he has known (with digressions)\, will be published in 2021 by the University Press of Kansas. He joins us from Salina\, KS. \nAubrey Streit Krug directs The Land Institute’s Ecosphere Studies program. She is a writer and teacher who studies stories of relationships between humans and plants\, and is co-author of The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way. She joins us from Salina\, KS.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-get-off-fossil-fuels-quickly-and-fairly-the-green-new-deal-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200523T150000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate APA Heritage with the Poetry of J.Bayani\, A.Cassinetto\, M.Win
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and conversation with Aileen Cassinetto\, Maw Shein Win\, and Jason Bayani\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nCelebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month with Eastwind Books of Berkeley! Join us for a very special poetry reading and conversation with poets Jason Bayani\, Aileen Cassinetto\, and Maw Shein Win. \nRegister to receive a Zoom link. A recording of the event will also be posted online afterwards for further viewing. \nAbout the poets: \nAileen Cassinetto is the current Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Widely anthologized\, Aileen is the author of the poetry collections\, Traje de Boda and The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems. She is the publisher of Paloma Press\, an independent literary press  aileencassinetto.com \nJason Bayani is artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco\, and author of two books\, Locus and Amulet. Drawing inspiration from  musical fragments in DJ culture\, Locus lays tracks to create a Pilipinx-American artistic power tied to the most fundamental parts of ourselves: families\, cultures\,\, memories passed down through generations. jasonbayani.net \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her first poetry is Invisible Gifts: Poems in 2018. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018)\, and her poetry collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020.  mawsheinwin.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/57327/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200523T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200523T190000
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SUMMARY:Living Between Generations: An Intergenerational Reading
DESCRIPTION:Foglifter’s Emerging Writer Fellows Reginald Edmonds and Ali Michael Cannon Present: Living Between Generations: An Intergenerational Reading \nPlease join Foglifter in celebrating the culmination of the inaugural Emerging Writer Fellowship with an intergenerational reading featuring: \nBambi Walker\nTino V.H. Jr\nDaniel\nJewelle Gomez\nWilly Wilkinson\nAurora Levins Morales\nAndrew Ramer \nWe’ll be steaming live on Facebook and Youtube\, so please follow us here and subcribe to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1EBHRChvckNrKbkIL9fxQ?view_as=subscriber). \nFor accessibility\, the reading will be live captioned and we will also have an ASL interpreter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/living-between-generations-an-intergenerational-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200523T180000
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SUMMARY:Youth Spirit Artworks Open Mic Poetry\, Asé
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly Open Mic Poetry event\, Asé\, is happening this Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Zoom! We are featuring poets Kathy Dana and J.J Rush! We invite you to join. To register\, click on the link below. We’ll see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-spirit-artworks-open-mic-poetry-ase/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200523T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200523T193000
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SUMMARY:Funny Sexy Sad Worldwide: a Zoom reading to benefit Bail Project
DESCRIPTION:The Funny Sexy Sad council– Lizzy\, Amira\, Nate and Melissa– host these incredible readers\, all sharing something that’s either hilarious\, miserable\, or some kind of sex story\, or some combination of those things: \nRAX KING\n(James Beard award winner\, work in Catapult\, Electric Literature and elsewhere\, essay collection “Tacky” coming soon from Knopf)\nMELISSA LOZADA-OLIVA\n(Say More podcast\, poetry collection “peluda” from Button Poetry\, work featured in REMEZCLA\, Breakbeat Poets and elsewhere)\nMAGGIE TOKUDA-HALL\n(The Mermaid The Witch and the Sea\, Also an Octopus\, Shipwreck)\nTOM BATTEN\n(The New Yorker\, McSweeney’s\, The Guardian) \nTo get the Zoom link\, give any amount to the Bail Project and send the receipt to funnysexysad@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/funny-sexy-sad-worldwide-a-zoom-reading-to-benefit-bail-project/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200523T210000
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SUMMARY:Jazmina Barrera and Philip Hoare
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual–but real!–event to celebrate the publication of Jazmina Barrera’s On Lighthouses (Two Lines Press). Jazmina will be joined by Philip Hoare for a conversation about lighthouses\, the ocean\, and our relationship with peril and safeguarding at the edge of the sea. \nThis is a benefit event for the Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA). \nAbout On Lighthouses\nFar from home\, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her\, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses–those structures whose message is “first and foremost\, that human beings are here.” \nStarting with Robert Louis Stevenson’s grandfather\, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline\, On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf\, Edgar Allan Poe\, Ingmar Bergman\, and many others. \nIn trying to “collect” lighthouses by obsessively describing them\, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing\, collecting\, and how\, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history\, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone–from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one–concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless\, guiding light. \nAbout the conversationalists \nJazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City. She won the Latin American Voices award in 2013. She studied the Master’s in Creative Writing in Spanish at NYU. She is co-editor at Ediciones Antilope and author of On Lighthouses\, to be published by Two Lines in May 2020. \nPhilip Hoare is the author of seven books of nonfiction\, including The Sea Inside\, The Whale\, and biographies of Noel Coward and Stephen Tennant. He lives in Southampton and on Cape Cod.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jazmina-barrera-and-philip-hoare/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200524T130000
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SUMMARY:James Tracy\, Hilary Moore\, and Friends
DESCRIPTION:with  James Tracy\, Hilary Moore\, Bill Crossman\, and Nancy Kurshan \ncelebrating the release of \nNo Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements \npublished by City Lights Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on a platform to be announced. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. Instructions for access coming soon\, \n———- \n(Click Here) in the near future for ticket information \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nBooks for this event may be purchased on : \nBOOKSHOP.ORG \n———— \nThe story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years\, laying the groundwork for today’s anti-fascist/anti-racist movements. \n“Smash fascism! Read this book!”––Tom Morello\, songwriter and guitarist with Rage Against the Machine \n“Studying the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee will give readers an understanding of the complexity of deconstructing the weapon of white supremacy from the inside out. Thank you Hilary and James for the precision of this analysis\, and the true north of this star.”––adrienne maree brown\, author of Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy \nIn June 1977\, a group of white anti-racist activists received an alarming letter from an inmate at a New York state prison calling for help to fight the Ku Klux Klan’s efforts to recruit prison staff and influence the people incarcerated. Their response was to form the first chapter of what would eventually become a powerful\, nationwide grassroots network\, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee\, dedicated to countering the rise of the KKK and other far-right white nationalist groups. \nNo Fascist USA! tells the story of that network\, whose efforts throughout the 1980s––which included exposing white supremacists in public office\, confronting neo-Nazis in street protests\, supporting movements for self-determination\, and engagement with the underground punk scene––laid the groundwork for many anti-racist efforts to emerge since. Featuring original research\, interviews with former members\, and a trove of graphic materials\, their story offers battle-tested lessons for those on the frontlines of social justice work today. \nPraise for No Fascist USA!: \n“Hilary Moore and James Tracy have written a magnificent book that not only corrects the record but helps explain the mercurial rise of white supremacist organizations in the 1970s\, how the Klan was (temporarily) defeated\, and why this period has been largely ignored. No Fascist USA! radically shifts our perspective\, challenging the prevailing wisdom that racist terrorism rises in response to economic downturns\, white downward mobility\, or in a vacuum created by progressive alternatives. I love this book.”––Robin D.G. Kelley\, from the foreword \n“No Fascist USA! is not only timely\, but also essential in the present period of accelerated white supremacist activity and anti-racist organizing to combat it. In telling the story of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee\, the authors\, without romanticizing or condemning\, draw important lessons from the fifteen-year history of the group.”––Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment \n“With its savvy blend of youth culture and street confrontation\, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee tried to stop Trumpism before Trump. They confronted the rise of white nationalism in prisons\, workplaces\, and music scenes when precious few paid attention to it . . . Hilary Moore and James Tracy have gifted us with an urgent read.”—Dan Berger\, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era \n“James Tracy and Hilary Moore deliver a searing\, bold new work that examines another painful and complicated chapter in American race relations. In an eye-opening account\, They are able to connect the dots of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee\, a band of contemporary predominantly white activists\, and its efforts to expose white supremacist organizations. With a fresh eye and new research\, their book uncovers with stunning precision how these groups remain active and exposes some of their unlikely alliances.”—Laurens Grant\, filmmaker\, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and Freedom Riders \n“We learned from history. You can too!”–Terry Bisson\, author of Fire on the Mountain and former member of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee \n“No Fascist USA! brings us the unromanticized\, and largely untold story of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. . . . we learn how their work exposed the complicity of the state—all the way to its highest levels—as well as the media’s role in the spread of white nationalist ideology. This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the roots of what happened in Charlottesville\, and the burgeoning white nationalist membership lists in the U.S. today. We cannot possibly take on the challenges we face without learning from the past. This book is a necessary and long overdue contribution to inform the way forward.”––Carla F. Wallace\, co-founder\, Showing Up for Racial Justice \n“Yes! This book is right on time! As a Black woman supporting Black liberation struggles\, it has been terrifying to grasp the resilience and reach of fascism in the U.S. and around the globe\, and disheartening to see how many White people want to sign petitions and express discontent with current political conditions\, but won’t acknowledge that there is a ongoing race war that they’re benefiting from\, and who won’t put their actions behind their beliefs. This book is about an imperfect effort to be brave\, to be committed\, and to risk the privileges of Whiteness in order to relinquish the entire construct of white supremacy. And from where organized people of color are sitting\, this kind of work is absolutely necessary. Studying the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee will give readers an understanding of the complexity of deconstructing the weapon of white supremacy from the inside out. Thank you Hilary and James for the precision of this analysis\, and the true north of this star.”––adrienne maree brown\, author of Emergent Strategy\, Pleasure Activism\, and facilitator of Black liberation movements \n“I’ve waited thirty years for this book! Our emergency hearts have always driven uprisings to stop white terrorism\, but it always takes more than black-bloc tactics in the streets to stop fascists. No Fascist USA! firmly connects today’s militant anti-fascist street-fighting movements with important living radical histories to disrupt the cycles that keep the spectre of fascism alive in the modern era. The struggles faced by the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee continue today in our difficult arc towards collective liberation.”––scott crow\, author of Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Commu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-tracy-hilary-moore-and-friends/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin reads from The Blue Absolute
DESCRIPTION:Monday May 25th at 6pm we will post video here and on youtube: Aaron Shurin reading from his latest book. \nYou can order a copy of The Blue Absolute here:\nhttps://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-absolute/9781643620169?aid=2426\nOr call the store 510.849.2087 for curbside pickup. \nAaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently The Blue Absolute\, just out from Nightboat Books. Other works include: Flowers & Sky: Two\nTalks (Entre Rios Books\, 2017)\, The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press\, 2015)\, and two books from City Lights: Citizen (poems\, 2012) and King of Shadows (essays\, 20008). His writing has appeared in over\nforty national and international anthologies\, and has been supported by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts\, The California Arts Council\, The San Francisco Arts\nCommission\, and the Gerbode Foundation. A pioneer in both LGBTQ+ studies and innovative verse\, Shurin is the former director and currently Professor Emeritus for the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-reads-from-the-blue-absolute/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Porochista Khakpour / Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Porochista Khakpour for her new book Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity. \nThis will be a virtual event\, live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door; and did you know we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire? Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nNovelist Porochista Khakpour’s family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution\, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one’s way through a confusing tangle of conflicting cultures and expectations. And Porochista is pulled between the glitzy culture of Tehrangeles\, an enclave of wealthy Iranians and Persians in LA\, her own family’s modest life and culture\, and becoming an assimilated American. Porochista rebels — she bleaches her hair and flees to the East Coast\, where she finds her community: other people writing and thinking at the fringes. But\, 9/11 happens and with horror\, Porochista watches from her apartment window as the towers fall. Extremism and fear of the Middle East rises in the aftermath and then again with the election of Donald Trump. Porochista is forced to finally grapple with what it means to be Middle-Eastern and Iranian\, an immigrant\, and a refugee in our country today.Brown Album is a stirring collection of essays\, at times humorous and at times profound\, drawn from more than a decade of Porochista’s work and with new material included. Altogether\, it reveals the tolls that immigrant life in this country can take on a person and the joys that life can give.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porochista-khakpour-brown-album-essays-on-exile-and-identity/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T193000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Amir Ahmadi Arian / Then the Fish Swallowed Him
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host Amir Ahmadi Arian for his new novel\, Then the Fish Swallowed Him. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nYunus Turabi\, a bus driver in Tehran\, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago\, he is decidedly apolitical – even during the driver’s strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point\, and Yunus has reached his. \nHandcuffed and blindfolded\, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark\, strangely ordered world\, his fate becomes entwined with Hajj Saeed\, his personal interrogator. The two develop a disturbing yet interdependent relationship\, with each playing his assigned role in a high stakes psychological game of cat and mouse\, where Yunus endures a mind-bending cycle of solitary confinement and interrogation. In their startlingly intimate exchanges\, Yunus’s life begins to unfold—from his childhood memories growing up in a freer Iran to his heartbreaking betrayal of his only friend. As Yunus struggles to hold on to his sanity and evade Saeed’s increasingly undeniable accusations\, he must eventually make an impossible choice: continue fighting or submit to the system of lies upholding Iran’s power. \nGripping\, startling\, and masterfully told\, Then the Fish Swallowed Him is a haunting story of life under despotism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-amir-ahmadi-arian-then-the-fish-swallowed-him/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Nerd Novels -- A Different Kind of Escape
DESCRIPTION:As society grinds to a halt around us\, many readers find themselves at home with time on their hands\, yearning to think about something—anything—beyond the daily drama of the pandemic. In this conversation\, authors Jean Hegland & Susan M. Gaines discuss “nerd novels\,” those books whose characters\, plots\, and themes depend on some specialized body of knowledge. Examples include Barbara Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior” (2012)\, Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” (2013)\, Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead\,” and most of A.S. Byatt’s and Richard Powers’ novels. Tonight’s conversation covers the concept of the nerd novel\, as well as the special challenges and rewards of reading and writing them\, and invites questions and discussion from the virtual audience. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nJean Hegland\nJean Hegland is the author of three novels and a book of creative nonfiction. Her first novel\, “Into the Forest\,” has been translated into 17 languages\, adapted as a film starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood\, and a French graphic novel. Set in a near future that bears an eerie… Read More →\n\n \nSusan M. Gaines\nSusan M. Gaines is the author of the nerd novels “Accidentals” and “Carbon Dreams\,” as well as the science narrative “Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal About Earth History.” Her stories have appeared in the “North American Review\,” “Missouri Review\,” “Best of the West… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-nerd-novels-a-different-kind-of-escape/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT
DESCRIPTION:Stories of triumph and perseverance\, hope\, support\, and love from times of plague and pandemic\nODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT\nTuesday\, May 26\, 6pm PT/9pm/ET \nWe’re taking the salon online! Join speakers from both the San Francisco and New York City chapters for an evening of stories of strength\, silver linings\, and kicking ass during some of history’s darkest chapters. \nUnfettered from our usual theaters on opposite coasts\, we are excited to bring a first ever line up of Odd Salon Fellows from both cities together for this\, our first online salon. \nEven during the worst of days of history – then as now – individuals have stepped up to make a difference\, communities have rallied together\, unlikely heroes have emerged\, and resilient art forms have flowered\, inspired and informed by the shared experience endured. \nFeaturing Odd Salon Fellows Christopher Reeves\, JR Pepper\, Matt Codner\, Kate O’Donnell\, Alexander Razo Myers\, and San Francisco Producing Curator Isolde Honore. \n~Story specifics to be announced.~ \nCurated and hosted by Odd Salon Co-founders Annetta Black and Tre Balchowsky \nThis event will livestream for free. Paid tickets go to support Odd Salon during this unexpected hiatus from live salons\, and all paid levels come with extra perks\, including both limited-edition print and digital access to our first edition of the Odd Salon Journal\, featuring related reading and art\, resources\, and supplemental material from our speakers\, related to the talks featured in our RESILIENT salon and related stories. \nTickets: \nFREE: Save the date with a free RSVP\, and we’ll remind you when the show is coming up\n$15: RSVP + Digital access to the first edition of the Odd Salon Journal\n$25: RSVP + Print copy of our limited first edition of the Odd Salon Journal\n$50: RSVP + Receive both digital access and the print journal\, plus something strange (but nice) in the mail from Odd Salon\nDonation tickets in any amount are also available. \nDiscounts on all tiers available to 2020 Members of Odd Salon with membership access code. \nGET TICKETS / FREE RSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-online-resilient/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
CREATED:20200509T011640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200509T011640Z
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SUMMARY:Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from \nWe Cast A Shadow \npublished by One World \n——— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n——— \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———- \nBooks for this event may be purchased at these links : \n>Purchase We Cast A Shadow here< \n>Purchase The Revisioners here< \n———– \n\nAbout We Cast a Shadow: \n“An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout\, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white \nLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “Stunning and audacious . . . at once a pitch-black comedy\, a chilling horror story and an endlessly perceptive novel about the possible future of race in America.”—NPR \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WASHINGTON POST \n“You can be beautiful\, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic\, where anyone can get their lips thinned\, their skin bleached\, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it. \nIn this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence\, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father\, our narrator just wants the best for his son\, Nigel\, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. The darker Nigel becomes\, the more frightened his father feels. But how far will he go to protect his son? And will he destroy his family in the process? \nThis electrifying\, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. At its center is a father who just wants his son to thrive in a broken world. Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s work evokes the clear vision of Ralph Ellison\, the dizzying menace of Franz Kafka\, and the crackling prose of Vladimir Nabokov. We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit\, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love. \nPraise for We Cast a Shadow \n“We Cast a Shadow asks some of the most important questions fiction can ask\, and it does so with energetic and acrobatic prose\, hilarious wordplay and great heart. . . . Love is at the core of this funny\, beautiful novel . . . . At any moment\, Ruffin can summon the kind of magic that makes you want to slow down\, reread and experience the pleasure of him crystallizing an image again. . . . Read this book.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) \n“A full-throated novelistic debut of ferocious power and grace . . . a story that refracts the insanity of the world into a shape so unique you wonder how this book wasn’t there all along.”—Lit Hub \n“Propulsive . . . We Cast a Shadow proves that the eeriest works of speculative fiction are those that hit closest to home.”—Vulture \n\nMaurice Carlos Ruffin has been a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and a winner of the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review\, AGNI\, The Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans\, Ruffin is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, \, was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurice-carlos-ruffin-in-conversation-with-margaret-wilkerson-sexton-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
CREATED:20200430T202904Z
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SUMMARY:How to Raise a Reader with Pamela Paul of The New York Times
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Diana Divecha\nProgram will air Tuesday May 26th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nIn a world where so much is competing for a child’s attention\, how do you raise a reader? Becoming a reader\, at any stage of a child’s development\, has huge cognitive\, emotional\, and social benefits that last a lifetime. But which books to choose? How to help your child turn to books over TV and games\, much less carve out time to dive headlong into a book? There’s no one better than New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul to show us how instilling a lifelong love of reading in your child can be easy\, fun\, and rewarding. \nBased on a New York Times article that went viral with its insightful advice\, How to Raise a Reader\, co-authored with New York Times Book Review children’s books editor Maria Russo\, is more relevant than ever now that schools are closed\, kids are sheltering in place\, and parents are casting about for learning and bonding opportunities that are constructive\, comforting\, and simple. In a lively conversation with developmental psychologist Diana Divecha of the Yale Child Study Center\, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence\, and Greater Good Science Center\, Paul will show us how to give kids of all ages one of the greatest and most joyful gifts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPamela Paul and Maria Russo\, How to Raise a Reader \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-raise-a-reader-with-pamela-paul-of-the-new-york-times/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
CREATED:20200226T181858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200226T181858Z
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SUMMARY:Phuc Tran: Sigh\, Gone
DESCRIPTION:Phuc Tran discusses his new memoir Sigh\, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books\, Punk Rock\, and the Fight to Fit In. \nPraise for Sigh\, Gone \n“The United States was already a better country because Phuc Tran refused to change his name. Then he went even further in changing this country by giving us this bold\, funny\, and profane memoir: a portrait of a young punk refugee and of heartland America itself\, each of them as defiant and compelling as the other.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of Pulitzer-Prize winning The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n“I like to think that had I been born a much cooler\, male\, Vietnamese version of myself\, Sigh\, Gone is the book I would have written. This glorious memoir is a reminder of the transformative power of literature and a tribute to friendships\, music\, and the unique kindness of Americans. I loved it!” —Firoozeh Dumas\, New York Times bestselling author of Funny in Farsi and Laughing Without An Accent \n“I started reading this book and couldn’t stop. Phuc Tran has written the Great American Nerd-Punk Boyhood Memoir\, a story that’s rollicking and laugh-out-loud funny while also offering a piercingly profound look at race\, the challenges of assimilation\, and the inherently defiant act of growing up. Earnest\, observant\, and diamond-sharp\, this is a new voice of unmistakable talent. I’ll follow this writer anywhere.” —Sara Corbett\, coauthor of New York Times best-selling A House in the Sky \nAbout Sigh\, Gone \nFor anyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong\, Sigh\, Gone shares an irreverent\, funny\, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. \nIn 1975\, during the fall of Saigon\, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle\, Pennsylvania\, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis\, The Scarlet Letter\, The Iliad\, and more\, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration\, feelings of isolation\, and teenage rebellion\, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. \nAppealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat\, Running with Scissors\, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced and The Refugees\, Sigh\, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse\, racism\, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s\, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature\, and in the subculture of punk rock\, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phuc-tran-sigh-gone/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
CREATED:20200226T181601Z
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SUMMARY:Joanna Hershon & Phyllis Grant
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Hershon and Phyllis Grant discuss their new books\, St. Ivo and Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes. \nPraise for St. Ivo \n“From the very first sentences of St. Ivo\, I felt certain I was in good hands. What happens when we can no longer communicate with the people we know best? What happens when what was once fluent between two people becomes indecipherable? Not a tender novel\, exactly\, though there is tenderness in these pages. In St. Ivo Joanna Hershon paints a portrait of grief\, of survival\, but also of hope. Anyone who has ever loved fiercely\, desperately\, will devour this story\, as I did. The effect here is cumulative and I found myself reading the final pages with the book gripped in both hands.”—Mary Beth Keane\, author of Ask Again\, Yes \n“St. Ivo is a wise and revealing book\, full of elegant menace—a novel whose tensions threaten to break its surface on every page. But Hershon is a master of control\, showing us patiently\, and with rich verisimilitude\, how a parent’s love for an estranged child persists despite separation and silence; how longtime friendships hurt and heal; and how loss compels us to know ourselves\, much as we might wish to look away.”—Julie Orringer\, author of The Flight Portfolio \n“An elegant\, suspenseful gem of a novel. I admired the crisp writing and intelligent depictions of people\, but more than that I needed to know what was going to happen next—I devoured it in a weekend.”—Adelle Waldman\, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. \nAbout St. Ivo \nIt’s the end of summer when we meet Sarah\, the end of summer and the middle of her life\, the middle of her career (she hopes it’s not the end)\, the middle of her marriage (recently repaired). And despite the years that have passed since she last saw her daughter\, she is still very much in the middle of figuring out what happened to Leda\, what role she played\, and how she will let that loss affect the rest of her life. \nEnter a mysterious stranger on a train\, an older man taking the subway to Brooklyn who sees right into her.Then a mugging\, her phone stolen\, and with it any last connection to Leda. And then an invitation\, friends from the past and a weekend in the country with their new\, unexpected baby. \nOver the course of three hot September days\, the two couples try to reconnect. Events that have been set in motion\, circumstances and feelings kept hidden\, rise to the surface\, forcing each to ask not just how they ended up where they are\, but how they ended up who they are. \nUnwinding like a suspense novel\, Joanna Hershon’s St. Ivo is a powerful investigation into the meaning of choice and family\, whether we ever know the people closest to us\, and how\, when someone goes missing from our lives\, we can ever let them go. \nPraise for Everything is Under Control \n“What a beautiful\, rich\, and poetic memoir this is. Phyllis Grant writes of longing\, suffering\, celebration\, family\, and food with such delicate power. Like the best chefs\, she knows how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingredients: truth\, taste\, poignancy\, and love. This is a wonderful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert\, author of City of Girls and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n“Phyllis Grant has the voice of a poet and the sensuality of a cook. This very brave book makes you want to experience the world with equal intensity. As for the recipes … completely irresistible.” —Ruth Reichl\, author of Save Me the Plums \n“How do we locate ourselves in time? In our families? Within the intricacies of our own appetites? With raw candor and discipline\, Phyllis Grant peels back the layers of her innermost experience and gives us a memoir as rich and nuanced\, as delicate as life itself.” —Dani Shapiro\, author of Inheritance \nAbout Everything is Under Control \nPhyllis Grant’s Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes\, goes\, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant’s story follows the sometimes smooth\, sometimes jagged\, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard\, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City\, to falling in love with her future husband and leaving the city after 9/11 for California\, where her children are born. All the while\, a sense of longing pulses in each stage as she moves through the headspace of a young woman longing to be sustained by a city into that of a mother now sustaining a family herself. \nWritten with the transparency of a diarist\, Everything Is Under Control is an unputdownable series of vignettes followed by tried-and-true recipes from Grant’s table—a heartrending yet unsentimental portrait of the highs and lows of young adulthood\, motherhood\, and a life in the kitchen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-hershon-phyllis-grant/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
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SUMMARY:N.K. Jemisin And Rebecca Roanhorse For Borderlands Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. N.K. Jemisin is the author of The City We Became. In 2018\, she became the first author to win three Best Novel Hugos in a row for her Broken Earth trilogy. Rebecca Roanhorse is a NYTimes bestselling and Nebula\, Hugo and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer and the recipient of the 2018 Astounding (Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. \nAll proceeds benefit Borderlands Books. Become a Borderlands sponsor now! \n\nMay 27 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/n-k-jemisin-and-rebecca-roanhorse-for-borderlands-books/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
CREATED:20200518T000213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T000213Z
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SUMMARY:Alta Asks Live: Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Poet Matthew Zapruder will join Alta Asks Live and host Heather Scott Partington on Wednesday\, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. PST to discuss his latest collection\, “Father’s Day\,” the role of poetry in a time of global crisis\, how he’s teaching college from his Oakland home\, and much more. REGISTER: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/alta-asks-live-matthew
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-asks-live-matthew-zapruder/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
CREATED:20200515T173235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T173235Z
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SUMMARY:Guerrilla Lit: Farooq Ahmed\, Nicole Mabry\, Peter Kline
DESCRIPTION:Dixon Place Presents Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: Virtual Edition. \nWe are pleased to announce that the reading scheduled for Wednesday\, May 27 features Farooq Ahmed\, Nicole Mabry\, and Peter Kline. \nThis virtual reading will occur on Zoom at 7:30 PM. \nTHIS EVENT REQUIRES ADVANCE REGISTRATION. \nRegister for this meeting here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsf-qqqzsoHdAZ4S9KORubUVSsEY-U9rk1\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nAbout the Readers: \nRaised in the great state of Kansas\, Farooq Ahmed is a graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program and of Brown University\, where he studied biochemistry. He is a Contributing Editor for Photonics magazine\, and his writing has appeared in the Financial Times\, Nature\, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His work has been lauded by the South Asian Journalists Association\, and he lives in Los Angeles. KANSASTAN is his debut novel. \nNicole Mabry grew up in Northern California but has lived in Queens for the past 17 years. She went to college at UCLA and Cal State Hayward\, graduating with degrees in Art History\, Photography and Digital Graphics. She currently works at NBCUniversal managing Photography Post Production for Bravo\, SYFY and USA Network. Her award-winning photography has graced the covers of books internationally and has been featured in shows throughout the city. After a successful 20-year career in photography\, she decided to take a left turn and go from telling a story with an image\, to telling a story with words. Nicole’s debut novel\, an apocalyptic women’s fiction thriller\, was inspired by a dream she had when a real life snow storm shut down all forms of public transportation in the city. PAST THIS POINT tells the story of one woman and her dog fighting to survive during a deadly virus outbreak that renders New York City a ghost town. \nA former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Merrill House and Clampitt House resident\, Peter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and in Stanford University’s Master of Liberal Arts Program. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Deviants (SFASU Press\, 2013)\, and Mirrorforms\, which was published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in the fall of 2019. \nDixon Place Literary Programs are generously supported by the Axe Houghton Foundation and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. \nWe’d be so grateful if you considered making a donation to keep the literary fires burning at Dixon Place. If you can\, please donate here: \nhttps://shop.vendini.com/dixonplace/product-details/donation/054d4ca95ace388c1932e38137522652
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guerrilla-lit-farooq-ahmed-nicole-mabry-peter-kline/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
CREATED:20200514T013640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T013640Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen\, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet’s environmental problems expect to encounter challenges\, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise. Author and professor Sarah Jaquette Ray releases her new book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety (UC Press)\, an “existential tool kit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology\, sociology\, social movements\, mindfulness\, and the environmental humanities\, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt\, resist burnout\, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nSarah Jaquette Ray\nSarah Jaquette Ray teaches environmental studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata\, California\, and is also the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-sarah-ray-and-a-field-guide-to-climate-anxiety/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
CREATED:20200521T171028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T171028Z
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: I'VE GOT A SONG FOR THAT
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 27\, 2020\n6:30 PM 9:00 PM\nGLOBALLY (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents: I’ve Got a Song for That\nwith Scott Ferreter\, The Singer and The Songwriter\, Chelsea Coleman & just 10 uniquely precious participants. \nI’ve Got A Song For That is You’re Going to Die‘s way of bringing songs right to the doorsteps of your heart. \nWe invite you to this intimate gathering with our most powerful songwriters in which songs are offered directly to your places of pain\, your longings\, & your aching humanity. In this unique space\, songs & stories are offered in service of an even deeper togetherness. This will be an intentionally small\, closed group in order to offer a safe & contained space that wouldn’t be possible in a larger gathering. \nIGASFT is an explicitly interactive offering\, which relies on everyone arriving with a willingness to share. While the space will be supportive & gentle\, the content might span the human experience—expect realness\, connection\, & feeling. \nDATE: Wednesday\, May 27th\nTIME: 6:30pm – 9pm\nLOCATION: Zoom\nPRICE: Sliding Scale $40 – $100 \nTO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT\, PLEASE SEND AN E-MAIL WITH THE SUBJECT LINE “I’ve Got a Song For That” TO thu@yg2d.com.\nYou’ll receive a confirmation email with payment instructions.\nIn order to preserve the uniquely intimate & personalized nature of this offering\, space for this event will be limited\, & registration is required to attend. \n***Two (2) full scholarships are available with one (1) of those scholarships reserved specifically for QTBIPOC. For more information e-mail thu@yg2d.com*** \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-ive-got-a-song-for-that/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161252
CREATED:20200516T222302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200516T222302Z
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SUMMARY:Alka Joshi with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nJoin us for an event with Alka Joshi\, your new favorite novelist. Reading during this time period can be challenging… but the exquisite story we’re about to share is guaranteed to sweep you away to another time and place. \nWe know you’ll love Alka’s debut\, The Henna Artist\, as much as we do. Beautiful and compellingly readable\, this novel effortlessly evokes post-Raj 1950s Jaipur\, all while completely enmeshing you in the conflicts and politics that drive the courageous protagonist Lakshmi Shastri. Against all odds\, and after fleeing an arranged marriage to an abusive older man\, the teenaged Lakshmi carves out a living for herself as a henna artist\, friend\, and confidante to wealthy\, upper-caste women within the grand Pink City. Then\, as a grown woman several years into this new life\, an exciting twist suddenly threatens to unravel all that Lakshmi has built. \nIn conversation with our own award-winning in house journalist\, Angie Coiro\, this is one literary conversation you do not want to miss. \nMore than just a romantic work of historical fiction\, The Henna Artist is based off Alka’s late mother’s life— but this story serves as a reimagining of what life might have been like if Alka’s mother hadn’t been in an arranged marriage at 18\, with three children by 21. Instead\, the novel recreates her life as if she had been able to pursue the independence and education that she never enjoyed in real life… the independence and education that Alka’s mother advocated for her. \nCaptivating and smart\, this is the perfect read for your digital book group— a novel that will transport you completely each time it is opened. \nRegistration for this event is open\, with the additional options of making a tax-deductible donation to Kepler’s Literary Foundation\, or supporting Kepler’s Books with a (non-tax-deductible) book purchase.  Donations will go toward Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs online\, in local schools and throughout our community.  \n**Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.** 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alka-joshi-with-angie-coiro/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:SUSAN CHOI
DESCRIPTION:“A natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.”  — Joan Didion \nSusan Choi is the award-winning author of five novels. Her fifth novel\, Trust Exercise\, which won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction\, tells the story of a group of teenagers at a competitive arts school in1980s American suburbia. The boundaries of fiction and reality are pushed in a tale that is itself a trust exercise for readers. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, Choi teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-choi/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T200000
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CREATED:20200509T012026Z
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SUMMARY:Frank Wilderson III in conversation with Justin Desmangles
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nAfropessimism \npublished by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. \n——- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n——– \n(Purchase AFROPESSIMISM here) \n——— \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tradition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin\, White Masks\, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. \nA seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir\, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression\, Frank B. Wilderson III\, “a truly indispensable thinker” (Fred Moten)\, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery\, as seen through pervasive\, anti-black subjugation and violence\, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today\, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose\, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter\, whether in radicalized\, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois\, Malcolm X and Baldwin\, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. \nProfessor and chair of African American studies at the University of California\, Irvine\, and author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid\, Frank B. Wilderson III has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction\, among other awards. \nJustin Desmangles is chairman of the Before Columbus Foundation\, administrator of the American Book Award\, and host of the radio broadcast New Day Jazz\, now in its fifteenth year. \nWhat has been said about the work of Frank Wilderson III: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Wilderson slings piercing stories and scalding analyses with literary fire and intellectual rigor. His tales juke genre and high-step over high-theory mumbo jumbo\, and float Franz Fanon some new wings. Like Ralph Ellison’s bluesman\, he peers unflinching into the abyss\, testifies to its brutal histories and hopeless predicaments\, ‘to finger its jagged grain\, and to transcend it\, not through the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic\, near-comic lyricism.’ He ghostwrites our brutal pasts into present and still hopeless predicaments\, yet divines deep love and blues humor. Even if our own hopes may live elsewhere\, we cannot dismiss Afropessimism‘s unnerving and undeniable truths\, nor the timeless art of its author.  \n—Timothy B. Tyson\, author of The Blood of Emmett Till \nA writer of hard\, searing lyricism…. [Wilderson] is\, to my mind\, an indispensible thinker. \n—Fred Moten\, author of The Undercommons
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-wilderson-iii-in-conversation-with-justin-desmangles/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
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SUMMARY:One Person\, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
DESCRIPTION:Program will air Thursday May 28th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nCarol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices on racial justice. In her National Book Critics Circle Award-winning bestseller White Rage\, she chronicled the history of systemic injustices that have impeded black progress in America\, from Reconstruction to the present day. In One Person\, No Vote\, longlisted for the National Book Award\, she zeros in on the fallout from the 2013 Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This “impeccably researched\, deftly written” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) book offers a whip-smart\, riveting analysis of the disenfranchisement of voters of color\, with insights that have proven\, in the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections\, to be resoundingly prescient — and\, for the 2020 elections\, more urgent than ever. \nAnderson will be in conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee\, one of the most well-regarded\, outspoken\, and trailblazing members of the U.S. House of Representatives\, and currently the only African American woman in House Democratic leadership. This empowering and galvanizing conversation will enlighten us about how voter suppression has worked in the past and\, most importantly\, what we can do now to deny it a future. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Guy and Jeanine Saperstein\, and Mal Warwick Donordigital. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarol Anderson\, One Person\, No Vote \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-person-no-vote-carol-anderson-in-conversation-with-congresswoman-barbara-lee/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
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SUMMARY:Quarantine Storytime // Deborah A. Miranda
DESCRIPTION:During the Shelter in Place\, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets\, writers\, and translators\, and the local presses who publish them. \nOur second event features Deborah A. Miranda\, author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir\, published by Heyday. Deborah’s reading will be streamed on Facebook Live and Instagram Live on Thursday\, May 28 at 7PM. \nDeborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. Her mixed-genre book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (Heyday 2013)\, received the 2015 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award\, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association\, and was short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award. She is also the author of four poetry collections: Indian Cartography\, The Zen of La Llorona\, Raised by Humans\, and the forthcoming Altar for Broken Things. She is coeditor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature. Deborah lives in Lexington\, Virginia with her wife Margo and a variety of rescue dogs. She is the Thomas H. Broadus\, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches literature of the margins and creative writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quarantine-storytime-deborah-a-miranda/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
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SUMMARY:Round Weather Reading Series: Forrest Gander\, Robert Hass\, Brenda Hillman
DESCRIPTION:Round Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto the natural world in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/round-weather-reading-series-forrest-gander-robert-hass-brenda-hillman/
LOCATION:Round Weather\, 951 Aileen St.\, Oakland\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Kerr":MAILTO:muddoctorkerr@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
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SUMMARY:Author Alia Volz reading from Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book\, HOME BAKED: MY MOM\, MARIJUANA\, AND THE STONING OF SAN FRANCISCO. Our discussion will be webcast on GGP’s Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \n  \n(Order your copy in paper at bit.ly/GGPHomeBaked\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at bit.ly/LibroHomeBaked.) \n  \nDescription \nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \n  \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \n  \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \n  \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n  \nAbout the Author \nALIA VOLZ is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \n  \nPraise For… \nOne of She Reads’ “Most Anticipated Memoirs of 2020” \nOne of Alma’s “Favorite Books for Spring 2020” \n  \n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.” \n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n  \n“In Home Baked\, Alia Volz manages not only to write about her parents with clear-eyed compassion and empathy\, she also gives us a rich history of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s. As I read\, her family and the city came alive for me: every person and street were vivid\, complicated\, tragic\, and beautiful. I loved this engrossing\, informative\, funny\, and heartbreaking book. Volz is a true talent.” \n—Edan Lepucki\, bestselling author of Woman No. 17\, California\, and others
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-alia-volz-reading-from-home-baked-my-mom-marijuana-and-the-stoning-of-san-francisco/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
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SUMMARY:Clement: Robert Steven Goldstein
DESCRIPTION:Robert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel\, Enemy Queen. \nAbout Enemy Queen \nA woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass middle-aged men\, but what she demands in return soon becomes untenable. A short time later she goes missing\, prompting the county sheriff to open a murder investigation. \nWhen Stanley Berman\, a Jewish New York attorney\, is appointed Chief Counsel at a North Carolina University\, he opts to share a house with his good friend\, Thomas McClellan\, a professor in the school’s English Department. The men spend their evenings drinking wine\, playing chess\, and lamenting their ineptitude with women. Then the Professor\, a Southern good old boy\, former high school football lineman\, and avid hunter\, hatches a scheme to bring a young woman into the house\, insisting that as a creative writing teacher\, such women find him alluringly subversive and artistic. The Counselor is dubious but persuaded nonetheless—much to his detriment. \nThe articulate but bumbling Counselor and Professor find themselves outwitted at every turn by Victoria\, a young woman who is clever\, inscrutable\, and superb at finishing what she starts. She initiates passionate sexual encounters with the men\, but as time goes on\, what she demands in return becomes untenable. When she goes missing\, John Watson\, the county sheriff—and the Professor’s lifelong friend—feels compelled to open a murder investigation. \nFull of wicked humor\, artful eroticism\, scintillating dialogue\, and a bit of intrigue\, Enemy Queen is an exhilarating romp set in a North Carolina college town. \nAbout the Author \nRobert Steven Goldstein retired from his job as a healthcare information executive at age fifty-six and has been writing novels ever since. His first novel\, The Swami Deheftner\, about the problems that ensue when ancient magic and mysticism manifest in the twenty-first century\, has developed a small cult following in India. Cat’s Whisker\, his second novel\, will be published soon; an excerpt from it\, entitled “An Old Dog\,” was featured in the fall 2018 edition of Leaping Clear\, a literary journal. Enemy Queen is his third novel. Robert Steven Goldstein has practiced yoga\, meditation\, and vegetarianism for over fifty years. Born and raised in Brooklyn\, he now lives in San Francisco with his wife of thirty years and two rambunctious dogs
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clement-robert-steven-goldstein/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T120000
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SUMMARY:Gennifer Choldenko\, Avi And Aimee Lucido For Towne Center Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. Fridays will feature readings for kids\, and we’re incredibly lucky and thrilled to feature Gennifer Choldenko\, Avi\, and Aimee Lucid to support the wonderful Towne Center Books. \nAll proceeds benefit Towne Center Books. Buy a gift card now! \n\nMay 29 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gennifer-choldenko-avi-and-aimee-lucido-for-towne-center-books/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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