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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T110000
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SUMMARY:No Fascist USA! Discussion Series\, Talk #4 - Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley in the first of four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, with Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley. \nEvent co-sponsored by Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville) and Louisiville Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). \n———–– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———— \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(Click Here) to register\n————- \nCity Lights LIVE presents the four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, hosted by Hilary Moore and James Tracy\, author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements. \nTalk #4\, happening on Saturday\, August 29th at 11AM PST / 2PM EST is a conversation with Shane Burley. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville\, KY and Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). Please consider supporting Carmichael’s Bookstore by purchasing a copy of No Fascist USA! from them: (buy link here). \nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS \nHilary Moore is an anti-racist political educator and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice\, and is the co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights\, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press\, 2011). Her newest book is Burning Earth\, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Brussels\, 2020). \nJames Tracy is an author\, organizer\, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. \nShane Burley is a filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin\, In These Times\, Salon\, Truthout\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-fascist-usa-discussion-series-talk-4-hilary-moore-james-tracy-and-shane-burley/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T140000
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SUMMARY:Disability Book Series: Nina G on Stutterer Interrupted
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next installment of the Disability Book Series\, with Nina G and her book Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen. \nThe only female comedian who stuttered when she started 10 years ago\, Nina G believes that the problem isn’t with the stutterer\, but with a society that isn’t inclusive or accessible to those who experience this disability. \nIn her book Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen\, Nina challenges the status quo of how people who stutter are perceived onstage and off. \nAs a child\, Nina had a life-long dream of becoming a comedian\, but never thought she’d be able to go up on stage and make people laugh. Her story is about how stuttering caused her to first abandon her dreams\, then to embark on a journey that culminated in a career as one of only a handful of stuttering stand-up comedians working today. \nHow to Join \nThis event is free and will be on Zoom. We will send the Zoom access link to everyone who registers in advance for this program. Registration closes on 8/29 at 2 pm. \nAbout Nina G \nNina G was the only woman who stuttered in the stand-up comedy world when she started nine years ago. She co-produced the Comedians with Disabilities Act\, a national touring comedy show featuring exclusively comedians with disabilities. Nina’s brand of comedy reflects the experiences of many with disabilities. She tours the country as a conference keynote speaker including at a TEDx talk at San Jose State University. A Huffington Post contributor\, she has a doctorate in psychology\, teaches at a Bay Area Community College\, and lives in Oakland\, California. Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen is her second book. \nAccessibility \nThis event will have both ASL interpreters and live CART captioning services. \nFor any additional accessibility needs\, please contact Peter Estes at (415) 546-1333 ext 309 or peter@sdaction.org \nFree \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/disability-book-series-nina-g-on-stutterer-interrupted-registration-107620921072 ninagbooking@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/disability-book-series-nina-g-on-stutterer-interrupted/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T160000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Ursula Hegi (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Ursula Hegi‘s latest novel\, The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls—a story of three mothers\, set on the shores of the Nordsee—is a testament to the ways in which women hold each other up in the most unexpected of circumstances. \nUrsula was born in Germany in 1946 and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. She is the author of 12 books. Several of her novels\, including Stones from the River and Floating in My Mother’s Palm\, explore German and German-American identity in the 20th century. Set in Burgdorf\, a fictional village in Germany\, they are part of the Burgdorf Cycle\, which also includes the novel Children and Fire\, published in 2011. Her work has been translated into many languages\, and her awards include the Italian Grinzane Cavour\, an NEA Fellowship\, and a PEN/Faulkner Award. She has served as a juror for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle. \nUrsula lives with her husband in in New York State. She teaches in the MFA program in Writing and Literature at Stony Brook\, Southampton. \nBarbara Wright is the author of three novels: Crow\, Easy Money\, and Plain Language\, which won a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. She grew up in North Carolina\, has traveled all over the world\, and lived in France\, Korea\, and El Salvador. She worked as a fact-checker for Esquire and as a screenwriter. Barbara lives in Denver\, Colorado with her husband\, Frank Gay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-ursula-hegi-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200830T160000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Pramila Jayapal (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Pramila Jayapal’s Use the Power You Have offers a wealth of ideas and inspiration for a new generation of engaged citizens interested in fighting back and making change\, whether in Washington or in their own communities. \nPramila is the Congresswoman who represents Washington’s 7th District\, which encompasses most of Seattle and surrounding areas. The first Indian American woman in the House of Representatives\, Pramila has spent nearly thirty years working internationally and domestically as an advocate for women’s\, immigrant\, civil\, and human rights. She lives in Seattle\, Washington. \nMeena Harris was born into a family of strong women whose legacy continues to inspire her. Her grandmother\, Shyamala Gopalan\, was a cancer researcher and civil rights activist; her mother\, Maya Harris\, is a lawyer and policy expert; and her aunt\, Kamala Harris\, is a United States senator from California and the Democratic vice presidential nominee for the 2020 election. Meena herself is a lawyer and entrepreneur. In 2017 she founded the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign\, a female-powered organization that brings awareness to social causes. She currently resides in San Francisco with her partner and two daughters. \nMeena’s Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea—an empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change—is inspired by a true story from the childhood of her aunt\, US Senator Kamala Harris\, and mother\, lawyer\, and policy expert Maya Harris. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-pramila-jayapal-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200831T110000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
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 fifth event in the series features Sarah Jaquette Ray discussing her book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\nGen Z’s first “existential toolkit” for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice. \nA 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 when they confront this seemingly intractable situation. \nDrawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs\, Sarah Jaquette Ray has created 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. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is the essential guidebook for the climate generation—and perhaps the rest of us—as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time. \n\n \nSarah Jaquette Ray teaches environmental studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata\, California\, and is the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture. \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 A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety sent to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-sarah-jaquette-ray-a-field-guide-to-climate-anxiety-how-to-keep-your-cool-on-a-warming-planet/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200831T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200831T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookseller Happy Hour: Hot Books\, Cool Drinks!
DESCRIPTION:Join Bookshop booksellers as we share some of the hottest recommended books of the season\, while you sip on the cool beverage of your choice from the comfort of home. Come spend an hour with us on Crowdcast to find your next great read.\nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon.\nThis is a free event. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bookseller-happy-hour-hot-books-cool-drinks/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T180000
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SUMMARY:Katy Rose Pool and Laura Sebastian
DESCRIPTION:Calling all fantasy readers. \n \nWe are absolutely thrilled to be launching As the Shadow Rises\, Katy Rose Pool’s sequel to the critically-acclaimed\, action packed epic fantasy There Will Come a Darkness\, that explores everything from ancient history to apocalyptic prophecies to fraught sibling relationships. \nThe Last Prophet has been found\, yet he sees destruction ahead. In this sequel\, kingdoms have begun to fall to a doomsday cult\, the magical Graced are being persecuted\, and an ancient power threatens to break free. But with the world hurtling toward its prophesized end\, Anton’s haunting vision reveals the dangerous beginnings of a plan to stop the Age of Darkness. \nThere Will Come a Darkness is a Morris Award Finalist for best debut young adult novel\, it garnered four starred reviews\, and was a 2019 Kirkus Best Book of the Year \n \n\n\n\n\n* “Adventurous relic-hunting\, mind-blowing twists\, budding love\, and terrible betrayals feature in this multiple-narrator\, character-driven study of power\, agency\, and identity and the ways these are affected by the interwoven threads of both history and legend.” ―Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \nKaty will be chatting with Laura Sebastian\, author of Ash Princess series\, and we couldn’t be more excited. Join these two incredible writers as they celebrate As the Shadow Rises and epic fantasy in general We can’t wait.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katy-rose-pool-and-laura-sebastian/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Eula Biss
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tueday\, September 1 at 6pm for the launch of bestselling author Eula Biss’ new book\, Having and Being Had on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84064965260 \nWebinar ID: 840 6496 5260 \nPraise for Having and Being Had \n“A major achievement. Having and Being Had\, rather than leading through narrative\, turns individual words and phrases\, like capitalism\, consumers\, great America\, husbandry\, art\, and work\, into fields of inquiry in order to frame a life. With astute consideration\, this expansive and intimate accumulation asks the questions that touch all our lives.” —Claudia Rankine \n“Eula Biss’s prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn’t know I felt about money\, capitalism\, and my place inside of an economy that always requires so much of me and gives back so little. A brilliant\, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why\, and who in turn might own us in ways we didn’t know we consented to—what could be more necessary now?” —Alexander Chee \nAbout Having and Being Had \nA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land \n“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts\,” Eula Biss writes\, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home\, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges—in libraries and laundromats\, over barstools and backyard fences—Having and Being Had examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides\, like a chess player\,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury\, of accumulation and consumption\, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon\, Biss asks\, of both herself and her class\, “In what have we invested?”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eula-biss-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Eula Biss
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tueday\, September 1 at 6pm for the launch of bestselling author Eula Biss’ new book\, Having and Being Had on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84064965260\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84064965260#  or +12532158782\,\,84064965260#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 840 6496 5260\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kiHZt5N7n \nPraise for Having and Being Had \n“A major achievement. Having and Being Had\, rather than leading through narrative\, turns individual words and phrases\, like capitalism\, consumers\, great America\, husbandry\, art\, and work\, into fields of inquiry in order to frame a life. With astute consideration\, this expansive and intimate accumulation asks the questions that touch all our lives.” —Claudia Rankine \n“Eula Biss’s prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn’t know I felt about money\, capitalism\, and my place inside of an economy that always requires so much of me and gives back so little. A brilliant\, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why\, and who in turn might own us in ways we didn’t know we consented to—what could be more necessary now?” —Alexander Chee \n“Eula Biss is known for stepping off the plank into turbulent waters that others might fear or avoid\, armed with wry wit and a radical lucidity. Having and Being Had continues this journey\, offering us a probing tour of capitalism and class that sidesteps posturing and jargon in favor of clarity\, humility\, and incitement.” —Maggie Nelson\n \nAbout Having and Being Had \nA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land \n“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts\,” Eula Biss writes\, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home\, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges—in libraries and laundromats\, over barstools and backyard fences—Having and Being Had examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides\, like a chess player\,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury\, of accumulation and consumption\, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon\, Biss asks\, of both herself and her class\, “In what have we invested?”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eula-biss/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200902T080000
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SUMMARY:Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
DESCRIPTION:PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST\n2020 SCHEDULE\n\n\nWelcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians\nhttps://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0\n\n\nSeptember 2\, 1pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring NPR’s Malaka Gharib\, Sari-Sari Storybooks’ founder Christina Newhard & NYT bestselling YA author Erin Entrada Kelly. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction\, Middle School/YA)\nhttps://youtu.be/k4U_bDFfrmo\n\n\nSeptember 3\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents “Poetry & Home in Diaspora” featuring Kai Coggin\, Lee Herrick\, Antonio Lopez & Persis Karim. SMCL YouTube (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/rH_thzyluCc\n\n\nSeptember 7\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Irenosen Okojie\, London-based author & winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing\, Murzban Shroff\, Mumbai-based author & recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award\, and Ricco Siasoco\, San Francisco-based author & National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Facebook Watch Party. (Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/8eI1E8NySAg\n\n\nSeptember 10\, 6pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Thea Matthews with MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein & Tongo Eisen-Martin. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/480Primrose/videos/1475338219322119\n\n\nSeptember 16\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Veronica Montes with Alan Chazaro\, Elsa Valmidiano & Ricco Siasoco. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/2661021164214044\n\n\nSeptember 17\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala\, Marianne Chan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao & Jean Vengua. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/754302115300958\n\n\nSeptember 20\n“The Makers’ Call to Action” featuring Kai Coggin\, Samuel Getachew\, Tureeda Mikell\, Dena Rod and Michael Simms.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/tv/CFVnf_YhmoM/\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 2:30pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Ellen Bass\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Danusha Lameris\, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/TLLuK6Jp-_Y\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Johanna Ely\, Joel Katz\, Phyllis Klein\, Ron Riekki\, Jacki Rigoni\, Kim Shuck\, Tanuja Wakefield & July Westhale. Hosted by San Mateo County Inaugural Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/311565253246052/\n\n\n\nSeptember 22\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Janet Stickmon with Michelle Bautista\, Herna Cruz-Louie & Melinda Luisa de Jesus. Webinar/FB Live. (Nonfiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/681790089360727\n\n\nSeptember 24\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Maw Shein Win with Jennifer Hasegawa\, Jenny Qi & Audrey T. Williams. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2312434539051532/\n\n\n\nSeptember 30\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Carole Bumpus\, Joan Gelfand\, Audrey Kalman & Geri Spieler\, with California Writers Club Immediate Past President Lisa Meltzer Penn. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3266256730087640/\n\n\n\nOctober 3\, 1pm PT\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring children’s book authors Christina Newhard\, Gayle Romasanta & Justine Villanueva\, and illustrator Lynnor Bontigao. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3407003262725443/\n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Cody Tolmasoff. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Middle School/YA Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/A5dmcSeWnPE\n\n\nOctober 13\, 3pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest with devorah major\, Jason Bayani & James Cagney. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/719854585237673/\n\n\n\nOctober 23 (time TBA)\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring July Westhale\, author of “Occasionally Accurate Science” and Nomadic Press’ J.K. Fowler.\n\n\nOctober 26\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Francesca Bell\, Barbara Berman\, Joe Cottonwood\, Peter N. Carroll\, Ken Haas\, Kathleen McClung\, Connie Post\, & Lee Rossi. Hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Facebook Watch Party/SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/4134399856630670/\n\n\n\nOctober 29 (details TBA)\n\n\n#virtualbookfest #bookfest #PeninsulaBookfest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peninsula-virtual-bookfest/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Héctor Tobar in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:discussing Héctor Tobar’s new book \nThe Last Great Road Bum \npublished by Farrar Straus and Giroux \nIn The Last Great Road Bum\, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana\, Illinois\, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nJoe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was\, in his words\, a “road bum\,” an adventurer and a storyteller\, belonging to no place\, people\, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana\, Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America. With these facts\, acclaimed novelist and journalist Héctor Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum. \nA decade ago\, Tobar came into possession of the personal writings of the late Joe Sanderson\, which chart Sanderson’s freewheeling course across the known world\, from Illinois to Jamaica\, to Vietnam\, to Nigeria\, to El Salvador—a life determinedly an adventure\, ending in unlikely\, anonymous heroism. \nThe Last Great Road Bum is the great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written\, but did truly live—a fascinating\, timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like Héctor Tobar could pull off. \nHéctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Deep Down Dark\, as well as The Barbarian Nurseries\, Translation Nation\, and The Tattooed Soldier. Tobar is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California\, Irvine. He has written for The New Yorker\, the Los Angeles Times\, and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories\, L.A. Noir\, ZYZZYVA\, and Slate. The son of Guatemalan immigrants\, he is a native of Los Angeles\, where he lives with his family. \nOscar Villalon is the Managing Editor of Zyzzyva Magazine. He is is the former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. His reviews have appeared on NPR.org and KQED’s “The California Report.” \n\n\n\n\nPraise for The Last Great Road Bum\n“Héctor Tobar uses every method at his disposal to encircle the facts of the ‘conspicuous gringo’ whose archive landed in his lap. I’m in awe of the results\, an alchemical amalgam of tender portraiture and illuminating context\, with a voice full of riffs and references\, and charming as hell. Tobar can seemingly do anything as a writer; here he bridges fiction and nonfiction effortlessly.” —Jonathan Lethem \n“Tobar’s stunning follow-up to Deep Down Dark draws from the unbelievable true story of Joe Sanderson\, a peripatetic would-be-writer who left a comfortable existence in Urbana\, Ill.\, in order to travel the world in search of material for a great American novel. Instead\, he found romance\, danger\, and the dark heart of the mid-20th century…Tobar brilliantly succeeds in capturing Joe’s guileless yearning for adventure through high-velocity prose that is both relentless and wry.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“The vividly realized particulars of [Joe Sanderson’s] restless journeys are offered in Tobar’s remarkable novelization of Sanderson’s real life\, his adventures and misadventures…. His life itself has inspired what is inarguably a great novel\, a tribute to him that is beautifully written and spectacularly imagined. Tobar writes that it took him 11 years to complete this wonderful book. Readers will rejoice that he persisted.”\n—Booklist\, starred review \n“The speed and respect and sensitivity with which Tobar can encapsulate a life is dazzling…The novel muses on who gets to tell stories as it probes the lines between myth and reality. This is first rate storytelling from a writer who deepens the sky with every book he writes.” —John Freeman\, Lit Hub Summer Preview \nPraise for Héctor Tobar\n“A riveting story…[but] why it’s an extraordinary book is because of Héctor Tobar’s writing\, which is so beautiful and so thoughtful that he’s taking on all of the big issues of life: what is life worth\, what is the value of one human life\, what is faith\, who do we become in our darkest hour? He really brings this story to a level that I don’t feel anyone else could have done . . . It’s the best book of the year.” —Ann Patchett\, NPR’s Morning Edition on Deep Down Dark \n“Hector Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier brings the enmities of the Guatemalan civil war to the L.A. riots.” —Jeffrey Fleishman\, Los Angeles Times on The Tattooed Soldier \n“[Tobar] succeeds in bringing into focus both the civil turmoil that racks Guatemala and the inner turmoil that can consume people anywhere.” —People\, on The Tattooed Soldier \n“A triumph . . . Crosswires de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America with Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries.” —Steve Erickson\, New York Times Book Review\, on Translation Nation \n“A book of extraordinary scope and extraordinary power.” –Richard Rayner\, Los Angeles Times\, on Barbarian Nurseries \n“[Tobar] exhibits a seismographic sensitivity to the tensions along the fault lines of his cultural terrain . . . His illuminations become our recognitions.” –Rebecca Donner\, The New York Times Book Review\, on Barbarian Nurseries \n“Both timely and timeless . . . Tobar continually creates moments of uncommon magic.” –-Elle\, on Barbarian Nurseries
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hector-tobar-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carole Stivers and John Markoff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 3 at 6:00pm PST when Carole Stivers discusses her debut novel\, The Mother Code\, with John Markoff on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81537772295 \nWebinar ID: 815 3777 2295 \nPraise for The Mother Code \n“Carole Stivers is far from the first to wonder if motherhood can be scientifically replicated\, but this is a thoughtful and thought-provoking addition to that meditation. An end-of-times tale that focuses less on what has been lost and more on what and who might be saved (and how). Stivers’ wonderful story settles right on the line between human and machine\, as blame and threat and rescue and love shift from character to character in surprising and powerful ways.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \nAbout The Mother Code \nIn this mind-bending debut novel\, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. \nIt is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry\, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail\, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots—to be incubated\, birthed\, and raised by these machines\, which have been programmed with the latest advances in artificial intelligence: the Mother Code. \nKai is born in America’s desert Southwest\, his only companion his robotic Mother\, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and intuition of a human mother\, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. As children like him come of age\, their Mothers transform too—in ways that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that the machines who raised the children must be destroyed\, Kai must fight to save the only parent he has ever known.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carole-stivers-and-john-markoff-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nRed Pill: a novel \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nFrom the widely acclaimed author of White Tears\, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth. \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nAfter receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany\, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write\, he takes long walks and binge-watches Blue Lives–a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak\, Darwinian view of life–and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. \nWannsee is a place full of ghosts: Across the lake\, the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution\, and in his walks he passes the grave of the Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist\, who killed himself after deciding that “no happiness was possible here on earth.” When some friends drag him to a party where he meets Anton\, the creator of Blue Lives\, the narrator begins to believe that the two of them are involved in a cosmic battle\, and that Anton is “red-pilling” his viewers–turning them toward an ugly\, alt-rightish worldview–ultimately forcing the narrator to wonder if he is losing his mind. \n\nHari Kunzru is the author of five previous novels: White Tears\, The Impressionist\, Transmission\, My Revolutions\, and Gods Without Men. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages\, and his short stories and journalism have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and The New Yorker. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the New York Public Library\, and the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nWhat has been said about Red Pill \n\n“Razor-sharp . . . as an allegory about how well-meaning liberals have been blindsided by pseudo-intellectual bigots with substantial platforms\, it’s bleak but compelling . . . ‘Kafkaesque’ is an overused term\, but it’s an apt one for this dark tale of fear and injustice.”—Kirkus (starred) \n“Dazzling . . . Kunzru has created a complex\, challenging\, and bold story about a world gone amok. . .” —Booklist (starred)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carole Stivers and John Markoff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 3 at 6:00pm PST when Carole Stivers discusses her debut novel\, The Mother Code\, with John Markoff on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81537772295 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81537772295#  or +13462487799\,\,81537772295#\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 +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 815 3777 2295\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbL6VB5OXO\n \nPraise for The Mother Code \n“Carole Stivers is far from the first to wonder if motherhood can be scientifically replicated\, but this is a thoughtful and thought-provoking addition to that meditation. An end-of-times tale that focuses less on what has been lost and more on what and who might be saved (and how). Stivers’ wonderful story settles right on the line between human and machine\, as blame and threat and rescue and love shift from character to character in surprising and powerful ways.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \n“Some stories are so unique\, yet so universal\, that it is wonder they aren’t a part of the human fable already. Carole Stivers’s The Mother Code\, is such a novel. Simply written but powerful\, chock full of ideas and extrapolations about what it means to be a mother and all that such a word implies. Both apocalyptic\, yet hopeful\, treat yourself to this story. You’ll be well rewarded.”—James Rollins\, New York Times bestselling author of Crucible \n“I could not put down The Mother Code ! Part action adventure\, part sci-fi\, the novel is suspenseful and cinematic and such a pleasure to read. Carole Stivers is a masterful storyteller and she has combined science\, technology and history to tell a beautiful story of humanity and love.”—Devi S. Laskar\, author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues \nAbout The Mother Code \nIn this mind-bending debut novel\, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. \nIt is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry\, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail\, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots—to be incubated\, birthed\, and raised by these machines\, which have been programmed with the latest advances in artificial intelligence: the Mother Code. \nKai is born in America’s desert Southwest\, his only companion his robotic Mother\, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and intuition of a human mother\, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. As children like him come of age\, their Mothers transform too—in ways that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that the machines who raised the children must be destroyed\, Kai must fight to save the only parent he has ever known.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carole-stivers-and-john-markoff/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Francesca Serritella Discussing The Ghosts of Harvard | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, September 3\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Francesca Serritella discussing her new novel\, THE GHOSTS OF HARVARD. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84003372643. \n(Order your copy of THE GHOSTS OF HARVARD at https://bit.ly/ggpGhostsHarvard.) \nDescription\n\nTEEN VOGUE BOOK CLUB PICK • A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide. Then she starts hearing voices. \n“A rich\, intricately plotted thriller . . . Serritella\, who is a Harvard grad herself\, writes about the campus with an insider’s savvy.”—Maureen Corrigan\, The Washington Post \n“Every time I thought I knew where Ghosts of Harvard was heading\, I turned out to be wrong. Part mystery\, part ghost story\, part psychological thriller\, this novel is all entertainment.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult \nCadence Archer arrives on Harvard’s campus desperate to understand why her brother\, Eric\, a genius who developed paranoid schizophrenia took his own life there the year before. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady’s life\, and while her decision to follow in her brother’s footsteps threatens to break her family apart\, she is haunted by questions of what she might have missed. And there’s only one place to find answers. \nAs Cady struggles under the enormous pressure at Harvard\, she investigates her brother’s final year\, armed only with a blue notebook of Eric’s cryptic scribblings. She knew he had been struggling with paranoia\, delusions\, and illusory enemies—but what tipped him over the edge? Voices fill her head\, seemingly belonging to three ghosts who passed through the university in life\, or death\, and whose voices\, dreams\, and terrors still echo the halls. Among them is a person whose name has been buried for centuries\, and another whose name mankind will never forget. \nDoes she share Eric’s illness\, or is she tapping into something else? Cady doesn’t know how or why these ghosts are contacting her\, but as she is drawn deeper into their worlds\, she believes they’re moving her closer to the truth about Eric\, even as keeping them secret isolates her further. Will listening to these voices lead her to the one voice she craves—her brother’s—or will she follow them down a path to her own destruction? \nAbout the Author\n\nFrancesca Serritella is the New York Times bestselling author of a nine-book series of essay collections co-written with her mother\, bestselling author Lisa Scottoline\, and based on “Chick Wit\,” their Sunday column in The Philadelphia Inquirer. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University\, where she won multiple awards for her fiction\, including the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize. Ghosts of Harvard is her first novel. \nPraise For…\n\n“Ghosts of Harvard is written with a masterly\, focused hand\, belying the fact that this is Serritella’s debut novel. The pages burn with frenetic energy and are peopled by memorable\, compelling characters. The tension is palpable\, the twists and surprises perfectly timed and the stakes as high as humans should be asked to endure. The end result\, a novel you will long remember and characters you will want to see again. A triumph in every respect.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-francesca-serritella-discussing-the-ghosts-of-harvard-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Henri Cole and Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, September 4th at 6pm PST when Henri Cole is joined by Forrest Gander to read from and discuss his latest collection of poetry\, Blizzard\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82199696731 \nWebinar ID: 821 9969 6731 \nAbout Blizzard \nA powerful new collection by an award-winning poet. \nDaring\, tender\, truthful\, the poems in Blizzard\, Henri Cole’s tenth book\, build on a reputation for quiet mastery. Whether he is wrestling with the mundane\, history and its disasters\, or sexual love\, he can sound both classical and contemporary\, with the modern austerity of Constantine Cavafy and Elizabeth Bishop. Often exploring the darker places of the heart\, his sonnets do not lie down obediently but spark with an honest self-awareness. \nCole’s lucid\, empathetic poems—with lyrical beauty and ethical depth—seem to transmute the anxious perplexities of our time. \nAbout Henri Cole \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, in 1956. He has published nine previous collections of poetry and received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Poetry Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, and the Award of Merit Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is Orphic Paris\, a memoir. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College \nAbout Forrest Gander \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia. In addition to writing poetry\, he has translated works by Coral Bracho\, Alfonso D’Aquino\, Pura Lopez-Colome\, Pablo Neruda\, and Jaime Saenz. The recipient of grants from the Library of Congress\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Whiting\, and United States Artists Foundations\, he taught for many years as the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-henri-cole-and-forrest-gander-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Henri Cole and Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, September 4 at 6pm PST when Henri Cole is joined by Forrest Gander to read from and discuss his latest collection of poetry\, Blizzard\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82199696731\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82199696731#  or +13462487799\,\,82199696731#\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: 821 9969 6731\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbrQWBX74e\n \nAbout Blizzard \nA powerful new collection by the award-winning poet. \nDaring\, tender\, truthful\, the poems in Blizzard\, Henri Cole’s tenth book\, build on a reputation for quiet mastery. Whether he is wrestling with the mundane\, history and its disasters\, or sexual love\, he can sound both classical and contemporary\, with the modern austerity of Constantine Cavafy and Elizabeth Bishop. Often exploring the darker places of the heart\, his sonnets do not lie down obediently but spark with an honest self-awareness. \nCole’s lucid\, empathetic poems—with lyrical beauty and ethical depth—seem to transmute the anxious perplexities of our time. \nAbout Henri Cole \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, in 1956. He has published nine previous collections of poetry and received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Poetry Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, and the Award of Merit Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is Orphic Paris\, a memoir. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College \nAbout Forrest Gander \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia. In addition to writing poetry\, he has translated works by Coral Bracho\, Alfonso D’Aquino\, Pura Lopez-Colome\, Pablo Neruda\, and Jaime Saenz. The recipient of grants from the Library of Congress\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Whiting\, and United States Artists Foundations\, he taught for many years as the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-henri-cole-and-forrest-gander/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Meg Elison / Find Layla\, with Somaiya Daud\, Rory Power\, Adam Sass and Maggie Tokuda-Hall
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Meg Elison for the launch of her new novel Find Layla. She’s joined by Somaiya Daud\, Rory Power\, Adam Sass and Maggie Tokuda-Hall for a panel discussion. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  If you’d like a copy of Find Layla\, 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\nUnderprivileged and keenly self-aware\, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn’t used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science\, protect her vulnerable younger brother\, and steer clear of her unstable mother. \nThen a school competition calls for a biome. Layla chooses her own home\, a hostile ecosystem of indoor fungi and secret shame. With a borrowed video camera\, she captures it all. The mushrooms growing in her brother’s dresser. The black mold blooming up the apartment walls. The unmentionable things living in the dead fridge. All the inevitable exotic toxins that are Layla’s life. Then the video goes viral. \nWhen Child Protective Services comes to call\, Layla loses her family and her home. Defiant\, she must face her bullies and friends alike\, on her own. Unafraid at last of being seen\, Layla accepts the mortifying reality of visibility. Now she must figure out how to stay whole and stand behind the truth she has shown the world. \nA heartbreaking and all-too-real portrait of many children’s lives\, Find Layla tugs at your heartstrings as you root for Layla to stay strong\, seek kindness\, and believe in herself in the midst of crisis and uncertainty. \n\nMeg Elison is a Bay Area author and feminist essayist. Her debut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. Her second novel\, The Book of Etta\, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\, and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She has been published in McSweeney’s\, Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Catapult\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time at www.megelison.com\, or follow her on Twitter @MegElison. \nAdam Sass began writing books in Sharpie on the backs of Starbucks pastry bags. (He’s sorry it distracted him from making your latte.) Raised in an Illinois farm town\, his desire for a creative career took him to Chicago\, New York\, Los Angeles\, and currently\, North Carolina\, where he lives with his husband and dachshunds. When he’s not dropping hot takes on Twitter\, Adam is a recurring co-host on the popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast Slayerfest98. Surrender Your Sons is his first novel. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-meg-elison-find-layla-with-somaiya-daud-rory-power-adam-sass-and-maggie-tokuda-hall/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Joe William Trotter Jr. / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
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 final event in the series features Joe William Trotter Jr. discussing his book Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\n\n“An eloquent and essential correction to contemporary discussions of the American working class.” –The Nation \nFrom the ongoing issues of poverty\, health\, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations\, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers\,” as “takers” rather than “givers\,” and as “liabilities” instead of “assets.” \nIn his engrossing new history\, Workers on Arrival\, Joe William Trotter\, Jr. refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class’s vast contributions to the making of America. Covering the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619\, Trotter traces black workers’ complicated journey from the transatlantic slave trade through the American Century to the demise of the industrial order in the 21st century. At the center of this compelling\, fast-paced narrative are the actual experiences of these African American men and women. A dynamic and vital history of remarkable contributions despite repeated setbacks\, Workers on Arrival expands our understanding of America’s economic and industrial growth\, its cities\, ideas\, and institutions\, and the real challenges confronting black urban communities today. \n\n\n\n\n\n \nJoe William Trotter\, Jr.\, is Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and Founder and Director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Black Milwaukee and Coal\, Class\, and Color and past President of the Labor and Working Class History Association. \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-joe-william-trotter-jr-workers-on-arrival-black-labor-in-the-making-of-america/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Greg Mania and Sam Lansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 8 at 6pm PST when Greg Mania discusses his new memoir\, Born to Be Public\, with Sam Lansky on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86579834543 \nWebinar ID: 865 7983 4543 \nAbout Born to Be Public \nPraise for Born to Be Public \n“Comedic gold.” – O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“Greg Mania is the Cheesecake Factory of writers\, and I say that with the utmost reverence: extravagant\, unapologetic\, hilarious\, and fucking good.” – Lindy West\, author of Shrill and The Witches Are Coming \n“This book is a hilarious wonder. Not only does it prove that Greg Mania was\, indeed\, born to be a public (and beloved) icon\, but also that he was born to be a celebrated writer. It’s sheer delight.” – Alissa Nutting\, author of Tampa and Made for Love \nAbout Born to Be Public \nIn this unique and hilarious debut memoir\, writer and comedian Greg Mania chronicles life as a “pariah prodigy.” From inadvertently coming out to his Polish immigrant parents\, to immersing himself in the world of New York City nightlife\, and finding himself and his voice in comedy. Born to Be Public is a vulnerable and poignant exploration of identity (and the rediscovery of it)\, mental health\, sex and relationships\, all while pursuing a passion with victories and tragicomic blunders. At once raw and relatable\, Mania’s one-of-a-kind voice will make you shed tears from laughter and find its way into your heart. \nAbout the Author \nGreg Mania is a writer\, comedian\, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in Vanity Fair\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, PAPER\, Out\, BOMB\, The Millions\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus\, HuffPost\, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir\, Born to Be Public\, will be published by CLASH Books this summer. \nIn film and TV\, he has recently co-wrote and co-produced his first feature-length film\, Deadman’s Barstool\, which is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. His pilot script\, MANIA\, has just won the Grand Prize of the Fourth Annual Stage 32 Comedy Writing Contest. He has also been named the Overall Winner of the Third Annual Filmmatic Screenplay Awards and Second Place Winner at WILLiFEST\, was nominated for Best Script at the Ninth Annual New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival\, and\, as of writing this\, has also been named an official selection in comedy festivals and competitions in Austin\, Portland\, and Atlanta. \nPlease don’t let all these fancy awards and nominations fool you\, he’s still on a family plan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-greg-mania-and-sam-lansky-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Julian Guthrie / Good Blood: A Doctor\, a Donor\, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special virtual event with Julian Guthrie for the launch of her new book Good Blood: A Doctor\, a Donor\, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies. She’ll be in conversation with Dr. John Gorman and James Harrison\, the main subjects of the book. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. A connection link will be sent to everyone with an RSVP.\n>  If you’d like a copy of Good Blood\, 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\nIn 1951 in Sydney\, Australia\, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later\, and half a world away\, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross\, or how they would change the world. \nIn Good Blood\, bestselling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible blood disease known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very different men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York\, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea\, and an unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood—and his unyielding devotion to donating it—would save millions of lives. \nGood Blood takes us from Australia to America\, from research laboratories to hospitals\, and even into Sing Sing prison\, where experimental blood trials were held. It is a tale of discovery and invention\, the progress and pitfalls of medicine\, and the everyday heroics that fundamentally changed the health of women and babies. \n\nJulian Guthrie is a journalist and author based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent twenty years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where she won numerous awards and had her writing nominated multiple times for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of four previous books\, including the bestsellers The Billionaire and the Mechanic and How to Make a Spaceship. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-julian-guthrie-good-blood-a-doctor-a-donor-and-the-incredible-breakthrough-that-saved-millions-of-babies/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Real American Dirt: Roberto Lovato in conversation with Myriam Gurba
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Roberto Lovato’s new book \nUnforgetting: A Memoir of Family\, Migration\, Gangs\, and Revolution in the Americas \npublished by Harper Collins \nA The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nAn urgent\, no-holds-barred tale of gang life\, guerrilla warfare\, intergenerational trauma\, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador\, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration\, one of the most important\, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time—and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.  \nThe child of Salvadoran immigrants\, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. In his teens\, he lost friends to the escalating violence\, and survived acts of brutality himself. He eventually traded the violence of the streets for human rights advocacy in wartime El Salvador where he joined the guerilla movement against the U.S.-backed\, fascist military government responsible for some of the most barbaric massacres and crimes against humanity in recent history. \nRoberto returned from war-torn El Salvador to find the United States on the verge of unprecedented crises of its own. There\, he channeled his own pain into activism and journalism\, focusing his attention on how trauma affects individual lives and societies\, and began the difficult journey of confronting the roots of his own trauma. As a child\, Roberto endured a tumultuous relationship with his father Ramón. Raised in extreme poverty in the countryside of El Salvador during one of the most violent periods of its history\, Ramón learned to survive by straddling intersecting underworlds of family secrets\, traumatic silences\, and dealing in black-market goods and guns. The repression of the violence in his life took its toll\, however. Ramón was plagued with silences and fits of anger that had a profound impact on his youngest son\, and which Roberto attributes as a source of constant reckoning with the violence and rebellion in his own life. \nIn Unforgetting\, Roberto interweaves his father’s complicated history and his own with first-hand reportage on gang life\, state violence\, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States. In doing so he makes the political personal\, revealing the cyclical ways violence operates in our homes and our societies\, as well as the ways hope and tenderness can rise up out of the darkness if we are courageous enough to unforget. \nRoberto Lovato is a journalist and a member of The Writers Grotto. He is one of the country’s leading writers and thinkers on Central American gangs\, refugees\, violence and other issues. Lovato is also a co-founder of #DignidadLiteraria\, the national movement formed to combat the invisibility and silencing of Latinx stories and books in the U.S. publishing industry. He is also recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center and a former fellow at U.C. Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center. His essays and reporting have appeared in numerous publications including Guernica\, Boston Globe\, Foreign Policy\, Guardian\, Los Angeles Times\, Der Spiegel\, La Opinion\, and other national and international publications. He lives in San Francisco. \nMyriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the true-crime memoir Mean\, a New York Times editors’ choice. O\, the Oprah Magazine\, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Publishers’ Weekly describes Gurba as having a voice like no other. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Paris Review\, TIME.com\, and 4Columns. She has shown art in galleries\, museums\, and community centers. She lives in Long Beach\, California\, with herself. \nWhat has been said of Unforgetting \n\n“Mixing fraught reminiscence with vivid reportage… Lovato delivers an intimate\, gripping portrait of El Salvador’s agony.” \n\n–Publishers Weekly\n\n\n\n“What is Unforgetting—a coming of age story\, a thriller\, a slice of hemispheric history? All I can say for sure is that it’s both gripping and beautiful. With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of a revolutionary\, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror that connects El Salvador and the United States. This book is an eye-opener into a world Anglo-Americans have been taught is enemy territory.” \n\n–—Barbara Ehrenreich\, author of Natural Causes and Nickel and Dimed\n\n\n\n“For generations\, from McKinley to Trump\, the United States has cast a shadow of exploitation and counter-revolution over Central America.  In this stunning tale of love and horror\, the journalist Roberto Lovato recounts how his own family history\, from the indentured Salvadoran countryside to the burning streets of Los Angeles\, has been shaped by resistance to yanqui violence.” \n\n–Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz and Set the Night on Fire\n\n\n\n“A provocative\, revealing work of journalism that explains gang behavior but does not idealize it.” \n\n–Kirkus\n\n\n\n“Salvadorans are ‘a people in the constant motion of overcoming\,’ Roberto Lovato writes in his pivotal debut Unforgetting. In it\, he runs a machete through himself and his family’s history—the 1932 Matanza\, the 1980s civil war\, and our present-day struggles with gang-violence and migration. With raw honesty\, Lovato partakes in a much-needed excavation of what it means to be ‘Salvadoran’—and ‘American’—in this world. Unforgetting is an opening\, a tear in the cloth\, we Salvadorans must speak through.” \n\n–Javier Zamora\, author of Unaccompanied\n\n\n\n“There has never been a book about the Latinx experience quite like Roberto Lovato’s Unforgetting. Here is a voice that is outraged\, philosophical\, thoughtful\, blunt\, emotional\, and\, above all\, fiercely independent. In this illuminating and insightful memoir\, Lovato journeys into the underworlds of the fraught history of El Salvador\, and his own California upbringing\, and finds injustice\, resistance\, and hope.” \n\n–Héctor Tobar\, author of Deep Down Dark and The Tattooed Soldier\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-real-american-dirt-roberto-lovato-in-conversation-with-myriam-gurba/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Greg Mania and Sam Lansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 8 at 6pm PST when Greg Mania discusses his new memoir\, Born to Be Public\, with Sam Lansky on Zoom \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86579834543 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86579834543#  or +13462487799\,\,86579834543#\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 +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 865 7983 4543\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbAD5OvJNw \n\nAbout Born to Be Public \nIn this unique and hilarious debut memoir\, writer and comedian Greg Mania chronicles life as a “pariah prodigy.” From inadvertently coming out to his Polish immigrant parents\, to immersing himself in the world of New York City nightlife\, and finding himself and his voice in comedy. Born to Be Public is a vulnerable and poignant exploration of identity (and the rediscovery of it)\, mental health\, sex and relationships\, all while pursuing a passion with victories and tragicomic blunders. At once raw and relatable\, Mania’s one-of-a-kind voice will make you shed tears from laughter and find its way into your heart.\n \nPraise for Born to Be Public  \n“Comedic gold.” \n– O\, The Oprah Magazine\n \n“Greg Mania is the Cheesecake Factory of writers\, and I say that with the utmost reverence: extravagant\, unapologetic\, hilarious\, and fucking good.” \n– Lindy West\, author of Shrill and The Witches Are Coming\n \n“This book is a hilarious wonder. Not only does it prove that Greg Mania was\, indeed\, born to be a public (and beloved) icon\, but also that he was born to be a celebrated writer. It’s sheer delight.” \n– Alissa Nutting\, author of Tampa and Made for Love \n\nAbout the Author \nGreg Mania is a writer\, comedian\, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in Vanity Fair\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, PAPER\, Out\, BOMB\, The Millions\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus\, HuffPost\, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir\, Born to Be Public\, will be published by CLASH Books this summer. \nIn film and TV\, he has recently co-wrote and co-produced his first feature-length film\, Deadman’s Barstool\, which is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. His pilot script\, MANIA\, has just won the Grand Prize of the Fourth Annual Stage 32 Comedy Writing Contest. He has also been named the Overall Winner of the Third Annual Filmmatic Screenplay Awards and Second Place Winner at WILLiFEST\, was nominated for Best Script at the Ninth Annual New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival\, and\, as of writing this\, has also been named an official selection in comedy festivals and competitions in Austin\, Portland\, and Atlanta. \nPlease don’t let all these fancy awards and nominations fool you\, he’s still on a family plan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-greg-mania-and-sam-lansky/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:A Star Is Bored by Byron Lane | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, September 8\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Byron Lane’s new novel\, A STAR IS BORED. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87632016905. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPBored\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/BoredAB. \nDescription\n\n“A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender.”\n— Taylor Jenkins Reid\, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six \nPeople Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 – Named a Must-Read Summer book by Town & Country – Named One of the 14 Best Books of Summer 2020 by Harper’s Bazaar – One of Library Journal‘s 2020 “Titles to Watch” – One of the 30 Best Beach Reads According to Parade Magazine \nShe needs an assistant.\nHe needs a hero. \nA hilariously heartfelt novel influenced in part by the author’s time assisting Carrie Fisher. \nCharlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for a wild job interview. His car is idling\, like his life\, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon\, star of stage and screen and People magazine’s Worst Dressed list. She’s an actress in need of assistance\, and he’s adrift and in need of a lifeline. \nKathi is an icon\, bestselling author\, and award-winning movie star\, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in a blockbuster sci-fi film. She’s also known in another role: Outrageous Hollywood royalty. Admittedly so. Famously so. Chaotically so\, as Charlie quickly discovers. \nCharlie gets the job\, and his three-year odyssey is filled with late-night shopping sprees\, last-minute trips to see the aurora borealis\, and an initiation to that most sacred of Hollywood tribes: the personal assistant. But Kathi becomes much more than a boss\, and as their friendship grows Charlie must make a choice. Will he always be on the sidelines of life\, assisting the great forces that be\, or can he step into his own life’s leading role? \nLaugh-out-loud funny\, and searingly poignant\, Byron Lane’s A Star is Bored is a novel that\, like the star at its center\, is enchanting and joyous\, heartbreaking and hopeful. \nAbout the Author\n\nByron Lane is a playwright and screenwriter. He’s also worked as a journalist and personal assistant to celebrities including Carrie Fisher. He’s originally from New Orleans and lives in Los Angeles with his boyfriend and their rescue dog\, Tilda. This is his first novel. \nPraise For…\n\n“Carrie Fisher’s spirit animates this funny\, dishy\, and deeply affectionate roman à clef by her former personal assistant. The force is with him.”\n— People “Must-Reads for Summer” \n“Lane debuts with a fizzy roman à clef about a celebrity assistant\, playfully alluding to his experience working for the late actor Carrie Fisher. Lane begins with Charlie Besson’s job interview…an assistant to Kathi Kannon\, famous for playing the beloved Priestess Talara in the science fiction epic Nova Quest. Lane brings wit and tenderness to Kathi’s mostly acerbic personality\, and her attachment to Charlie is potent and palpable… Lane’s affecting tale would show how the real Charlie found his own superpower—as a novelist.”\n— Publishers Weekly \n“Aside from being laugh out loud funny\, brazen\, charming and exquisitely observed\, ASIB is romantic\, soulful and filled with tender sweetness. For those of us who knew Carrie and Byron it all brings back chokingly funny and necessarily sad memories of a uniquely beautiful and deranged ménage\, but it will make every reader feel at home and a part of it too.”\n— Stephen Fry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-star-is-bored-by-byron-lane-ggp-online-book-club-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Mary Ladd & Don Asmussen (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd‘s The Wig Diaries is an irreverent cancer book\, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer. Illustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, this uniquely fresh and modern black comedy covers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills. \nMary‘s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, Health\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and in five anthologies\, including Lit Starts: Writing Humor and the best-selling 642 Things series. You may have seen her onstage at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley\, Breast Cancer Action\, Bay Area Young Survivors (BAYS) and Litquake. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. \nDon is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate\, and is the author of Dog vs. Cat: A Nation Divided and The San Francisco Comic Strip Book of Big-Ass Mocha. \nMichael Krasny is the host of the award winning KQED FORUM\, a program discussing news and public affairs\, current events\, culture\, health\, business and technology. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-mary-ladd-don-asmussen-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sophie Yanow and Suzy Exposito
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 10 at 5pm PDT when Sophie Yanow launches her new graphic novel\, The Contradictions\, with Suzy Exposito on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82968999585 \nWebinar ID: 829 6899 9585 \nPraise for The Contradictions \n“Yanow is an author/illustrator to watch.” —Publishers Weekly \n“With deft sketches and minimal text\, [Yanow] shows how the streets of a city can simultaneously foster and crush social change\, and how urban humans cling to personal freedom in an increasingly monitored world.” —The Atlantic \nAbout The Contradictions \nThe Eisner Award–winning story about a student figuring out radical politics in a messy world \nSophie is young and queer and into feminist theory. She decides to study abroad\, choosing Paris for no firm reason beyond liking French comics. Feeling a bit lonely and out of place\, she’s desperate for community and a sense of belonging. She stumbles into what/who she’s looking for when she meets Zena. An anarchist student-activist committed to veganism and shoplifting\, Zena offers Sophie a whole new political ideology that feels electric. Enamored—of Zena\, of the idea of living more righteously—Sophie finds herself swept up in a whirlwind friendship that blows her even further from her rural California roots as they embark on a disastrous hitchhiking trip to Amsterdam and Berlin\, full of couch surfing\, drug tripping\, and radical book fairs. \nCapturing that time in your life where you’re meeting new people and learning about the world—when everything feels vital and urgent—The Contradictions is Sophie Yanow’s fictionalized coming-of-age story. Sophie’s attempts at ideological purity are challenged time and again\, putting into question the plausibility of a life of dogma in a world filled with contradictions. Keenly observed\, frank\, and very funny\, The Contradictions speaks to a specific reality while also being incredibly relatable\, reminding us that we are all imperfect people in an imperfect world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sophie-yanow-and-suzy-exposito/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lev Grossman with Clara Sherley-Appel
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear Lev Grossman\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular books and TV series The Magicians introduce The Silver Arrow\, his must-read\, wholly original debut book for children that we are obsessed with. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*”Grossman’s gorgeous middle-grade debut is vivid and amusing… it’s a world all its own.”―Booklist \nDescribed as reminiscent of Roald Dahl and The Chronicles of Narnia\, The Silver Arrow follows a pair of siblings who embark on an unbelievable adventure into a wide adult world\, and discover how exhilarating and challenging that can be. \nBlending fantasy with the all-too-real\, Grossman’s world is imaginative and conveys a clear conservation message that will inspire young readers to see the world with new eyes. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLev Grossman is the author of five novels\, including The Magicians trilogy\, which has been published in 30 countries and the critically acclaimed TV adaptation just finished its fifth and final season on Syfy. Grossman is also an award-winning journalist who spent 15 years as the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine. \nLev will be chatting with Clara Sherley-Appel of KSQD’s Story Behind the Story\, a monthly author interview radio program for 90.7 FM serving the Central Coast. Clara also produces and co-hosts Physical Kids Weekly\, a Magicians podcast which follows the TV series based on Lev Grossman’s novels.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lev-grossman-with-clara-sherley-appel/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200910T180000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Bhatt
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new short fiction collection \nEACH OF US KILLERS: stories \npublished by 7.13 Books \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nSet in the American Midwest\, England\, and India (Mumbai\, Ahmedabad\, rural Gujarat) the stories in Each of Us Killers are about people trying to realize their dreams and aspirations through their professions. Whether they are chasing money\, power\, recognition\, love\, or simply trying to make a decent living\, their hunger is as intense as any grand love affair. Straddling the fault lines of class\, caste\, gender\, nationality\, globalization\, and more\, they go against sociocultural norms despite challenges and indignities until singular moments of quiet devastation turn the worlds of these characters—auto-wallah\, housemaid\, street vendor\, journalist\, architect\, baker\, engineer\, saree shop employee\, professor\, yoga instructor\, bartender\, and more—upside down. \nJenny Bhatt is a writer\, literary translator\, and literary critic. She is the host of the Desi Books podcast. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in various venues in the US\, UK\, and India\, including NPR\, The Washington Post\, Electric Literature\, The Atlantic\, BBC Culture\, Literary Hub\, Longreads\, The Millions\, and others. Her fiction has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and the 2017 Best American Short Stories. She was a finalist for the 2017 Best of the Net Anthology. Having lived and worked her way around India\, England\, Germany\, Scotland\, and various parts of the US\, she now lives in a suburb of Dallas\, Texas. Find her at https://jennybhattwriter.com. \nWhat has been said about the work of Jenny Bhatt \nOne of the most anticipated debuts of the second half of 2020 at Electric Literature\, Literary Hub\, and The Millions. \n“. . . rich debut collection . . . memorable . . . a powerful expression of the hunger for success on one’s own terms.” ~Publishers Weekly \n“A slim debut full of nuanced\, clear-eyed tales of unvarnished humanity. […] A formally diverse collection with exquisitely crafted stories about longing\, striving\, and learning what we can control.” ~Kirkus Reviews \n“Jenny Bhatt’s gorgeous stories in Each of Us Killers remind me why I love to read a good book. It is such a pleasure to be immersed in the worlds of her characters\, in their hunger for love or money\, and in their local and global struggles to live. With mouth-watering detail\, Bhatt serves up a rich and varied feast.” ~Devi S. Laskar\, author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues \n“The potent stories in this collection evoke the complexities of a shifting\, multilingual world with great precision. Bhatt moves between countries and realities with tremendous skill and insight.” ~ Idra Novey\, author of Those Who Knew \n“In a series of thrilling\, beautiful stories\, Jenny Bhatt moves through the moods\, thoughts\, subversions involved in the experience of interracial relationships\, East-West communications\, theft\, justice\, migration. The collection works brilliantly both as an evocative amalgam of insightful observations about race\, class\, gender\, aspirations\, as well as on the sentence level. Bhatt writes\, “polish it carefully\, till it glitters with the hope of a false diamond and refracts your stark life into a spectrum of luminous rays\, lighting up the darkness briefly”–referring to a character’s particular memory\, but could just as well be referring to the collection as a whole.” ~Chaya Bhuvaneswar\, author of White Dancing Elephants \n“In Each of Us Killers\, Jenny Bhatt excavates her characters with incisiveness\, nuance\, and complexity. The cast of vibrant characters in this wonderful collection is absolutely unique and memorable.” ~Karen E. Bender\, author of The New Order \n“This is a gorgeous collection. Bhatt weaves together\, with the lightest touch\, profound themes—work\, ambition\, displacement\, class\, and gender\, and so much more. Her plots are beautifully rendered and her scope vast; her characters and her settings come to life on the page. These stories are full of bitter heartbreak with a measure of joy—a wonderful collection from a hugely talented writer.” ~Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State \n“These stories are filled with wisdom and compassion\, bristling with dark occurrences and gleaming with quiet moments of joy: an enriching collection.” ~Mahesh Rao\, author of Polite Society \n“Moving\, haunting stories that explore a wide range of complex social inequities and yet share an undercurrent of a deep and very human kind of longing.” ~Aatif Rashid\, author of Portrait of Sebastian Khan \n“Sex\, death\, redemption\, betrayal—this collection has it all\, from the sordid to the divine. Bhatt’s vivid imagination and well-voiced characters will take you on a ride you won’t soon forget.” ~Mathangi Subramanian\, author of A People’s History of Heaven \n“Each of Us Killers offers up a complex portrait of our times. From caste-based violence to domestic power play\, from yoga to the under-seam of real-estate development\, Bhatt uses a dozen devices to examine the lives of people around us\, the choices that define them and\, ultimately\, our selves.” ~Annie Zaidi\, author of Unbound\, 2000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing \n“Ambitious\, sensitive\, this collection locates some essential Indian truths\, especially its hidden violence.” ~Prayaag Akbar\, author of Leila
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-bhatt/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Tom Philpott in conversation with Maddie Oatman / Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Mother Jones present a virtual event with Tom Philpott for his new book Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It. He’ll be in conversation with Mother Jones senior editor Maddie Oatman. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  If you’d like a copy of Perilous Bounty\, 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\nOur two dominant food-producing regions—California’s Central Valley and the Corn Belt of the Midwest—are both in a state of accelerating ecological decline. To make matters worse\, the agribusiness interests that dominate these regions actively consume the ecological foundations that support agriculture itself. California’s farms are mining non-renewable water and Corn Belt operations are exhausting their soil. \nIn this vital book\, veteran journalist and former farmer Tom Philpott explores the corporations\, investment funds\, and magnates who benefit from these hazardous cycles. As massive companies put upward pressure on prices\, mid-sized\, diversified farms wither. The money-making deluge of chemical weedkillers stifles farming innovation and produces toxic runoff. Consumers encounter bountiful but health-ruining calories from cheap meat\, sweetener\, and fat. And our precious stores of water and tenable soil vanish. \nResource scarcity looms on the horizon\, but rather than point us toward doomsday\, Philpott shows how American agriculture could be routed away from its path to disaster. He profiles farmers and activists who are valiantly and inventively pushing back: their resilient\, soil-building\, water-smart farming practices and preparation for climate shocks show the way toward an abundant future. And he explains how consumers can help move these methods from the margins to the mainstream. \nPerilous Bounty is a timely investigation of the United States’ food system as we plunge into an era of climate chaos\, and an essential exploration of possible solutions. \n\n \nTom Philpott has been the food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones since 2011. Previously\, he covered food as a writer and editor for the environmental-news website Grist. Philpott’s work on food politics has appeared in the New York Times\, Newsweek\, and the Guardian\, among other places. From 2004 to 2012\, he farmed at Maverick Farms in Valle Crucis\, NC. He lives in North Carolina and Austin\, Texas. \n \nMaddie Oatman is a senior editor at Mother Jones\, where she writes about the environment\, food and farming\, and culture. Her writing has won awards and been featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is the executive producer and co-host\, along with Tim Philpott and Kiera Butler\, of Mother Jones’ podcast Bite\, a show for people who think hard about their food. \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-tom-philpott-in-conversation-with-maddie-oatman-perilous-bounty-the-looming-collapse-of-american-farming-and-how-we-can-prevent-it/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Taking Care of History
DESCRIPTION:Taking Care of History: Evergreen Cemetery of Santa Cruz\, Historic Tales of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park\, and Lost Restaurants of Santa Cruz County\nJoin us for a very special event as the authors of three books on local history will discuss their work. \nTraci Bliss brings to life the tragedies and triumphs of the diverse men and women interred at Evergreen Cemetary\, the final resting place for a multitude of adventurers\, entrepreneurs\, and artists in her book Evergreen Cemetary of Santa Cruz\, coauthored by Randall Brown. \nDeborah Osterberg recounts the stories of the first visitors to Big Trees Grove and the awe-inspiring landscape they preserved for future generations in Historic Tales of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. \nLiz Pollock looks back at favorite places to eat that have come and gone in Lost Restaurants of Santa Cruz County\, her collection of stories and classic cocktail recipes from bygone eras. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-taking-care-of-history/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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