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SUMMARY:diluvium // a bluejay release
DESCRIPTION:A reading to celebrate the release of Isabel Bezerra Balée’s debut book of poetry diluvium // a bluejay\, out on Dogpark Collective June 15. \nAlongside featured readers Jackie Ess & Violet Spurlock
URL:https://litseen.com/event/diluvium-a-bluejay-release/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #63
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210619T150000
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SUMMARY:CWC SPEAKER SERIES: Member Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Register For Free: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkf-2hqzsvH9AX_EGAdbX4n96uLs0VYZxJ \nOur annual author showcase on Saturday\, June 19th\, will feature readings by authors whose books were published in 2020 and 2021. \nThe California Writers Club is hosting its annual launch party for member authors who were published in 2020-2021. Join us to hear eight fresh voices span genres from women’s fiction to thrillers\, and self-help. A unique opportunity to absorb the vibrant local lit scene and get some great new books! \nThe Zoom will open at 3:00 p.m. on June 19th. We will install the new 2021 board before the reading begins around 3:30. \nThis year\, we are eager to feature: \nPaul Corman-Roberts\, author of Bone Moon Palace\nBobbie Kinkead\, author of Damsels Overcome\nTherese Pipe\, author of A Life in Cooperatives\nTerry Tierney\, author of The Poet’s Garage\nKeith Mark Gaboury\, author of Oakland\, I’m Not Dead\nCecilia Johansen\, author of Kimsey Rise: A Family of Farmers\nLily Iona MacKenzie\, author of No More Kings\nHenry Hitz\, author of Squirrels in the Wall: A Novel in Stories \nRegister For Free: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkf-2hqzsvH9AX_EGAdbX4n96uLs0VYZxJ \nFree \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
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CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210620T150000
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SUMMARY:Black Ocean @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:  \n        \n  \nwith Carrie Olivia Adams\, Zachary Schomburg\, Hedgie Choi\, and Nathan Hoks \n\n\n\n\n\nBlack Ocean is an award-winning independent publisher based out of Boston\, with satellites in Detroit and Chicago. From early silent films to early punk rock\, Black Ocean brings together a spectrum of influences to produce books of exceptional quality and content. In conjunction with our book releases we manifest our aesthetic in celebrations around the country. We believe in the fissures art can create in consciousness when\, even if just for a moment\, we experience a more vital way of operating in the world—and through that moment then seek out more extreme and enlightened modes of existence. We believe in the freedom we find through enlightened modes of existence\, and we are committed to promoting artists we firmly believe in by sharing our enthusiasm for their work with a global audience. \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———- \n\n\n\n\n\nCity Lights celebrates this exemplary independent press with an evening of readings. \nJoining us will be: \nCarrie Olivia Adams \nCarrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago\, where she edits poetry for Black Ocean\, publicizes books for the University of Chicago Press\, and finds lots of uses for mason jars. She is the author of Intervening Absence (Ahsahta 2009)\, Forty-One Jane Doe’s (book and DVD\, Ahsahta 2013)\, and the chapbook “Overture in the Key of F” (above/ground press 2013). \nHedgie Choi \nHedgie Choi\, is a poet\, fiction writer and translator. She writes from a trans-pacific perspective is a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Austin\, Texas. She co-translated Hysteria by Kim Yideum\, which won the 2020 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and the 2020 National Translation Award in poetry. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review Online\, Washington Square Review\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, West Branch\, and The Journal.  She is a 2019 Keene Prize Winner. \nBlack Ocean just published Hedgie Choi’s translation of Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young \nNathan Hoks \nNathan Hoks is the author of two books of poetry\, Reveilles and The Narrow Circle\, which was a winner of the 2012 National Poetry Series and published by Penguin. His chapbook Moony Days of Being was chosen by Matthew Zapruder for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. His translations\, poems\, and critical writings have appeared in journals such as The Colorado Review\, jubilat\, Crazyhorse\, Lit\, Circumference\, Octopus Magazine\, and Verse. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, Hoks works as an editor and letterpress printer for Convulsive Editions\, a micro-press that publishes chapbooks and broadsides. \nBlack Ocean is publishing his third book\, Nests in Air. \nZachary Schomburg \nZachary Schomburg is the father of 35 children\, none of which are visible. They are very tiny and live in his hair. They are the ones who wrote these three books: The Man Suit (Black Ocean\, 2007)\, Scary\, No Scary (Black Ocean\, 2009)\, and FJORDS vol. I (Black Ocean\, 2012) . Zachary Schomburg is a girl. Zachary Schomburg is a refrigerator. Zachary Schomburg is a talking wolf and she co-edits Octopus Magazine andOctopus Books while living in Portland\, OR. \n  \n  \nsponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Stacey Abrams with Cari Champion
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is honored to partner with Picador to present AN EVENING WITH STACEY ABRAMS to celebrate the paperback launch of the New York Times bestseller Our Time Is Now. Abrams will be joined by Cari Champion on June 22nd at 4:00 PM (Pacific Time) on Zoom Webinar to discuss the urgency of ending voter suppression and how we can empower citizens to use their power to shape the future. The conversation will be followed by moderated audience Q&A. \nClick here for your tickets to this virtual event! \nTicketing Options: \n\nEvent Entry + paperback copy of OUR TIME IS NOW (select in-store pickup or have the book shipped to you. Domestic and international shipping is available)\nEvent Entry Only (free ticket; no book included)\n\n\nStacey Abrams is the New York Times bestselling author of Lead from the Outside\, a serial entrepreneur\, nonprofit CEO\, and political leader. A tax attorney by training\, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives\, seven as Minority Leader\, and Abrams became the 2018 Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia\, where she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. She has launched multiple organizations devoted to voting rights\, training and hiring young people of color\, and tackling social issues at the state\, national and international levels. Abrams is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the 2012 recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award. Abrams received degrees from Spelman College\, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas\, and Yale Law School. She is the founder of the New Georgia Project\, Fair Fight Action\, Fair Fight 2020\, Fair Count\, and the Southern Economic Advancement Project. \nCari Champion is a broadcast journalist and television personality based in Los Angeles. Champion made history with her move to Vice TV for her show “Cari & Jemele: Stick to Sports\,” along with co-host Jemele Hill\, as the first Black women to host a late-night cable news and information show. Champion also currently hosts the “NFL Next Live” Thursday Night Football live stream for Amazon\, TNT’s studio show\, “The Arena”\, and recently returned as co-host for Season 2 of NBC’s reality competition series\, “The Titan Games.” Champion previously served as anchor and host at ESPN where she spent nearly a decade. She continues to break barriers\, paving the way for younger women of color who want to pursue a career in sports television and other areas within broadcasting.
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SUMMARY:Andrew Bacevich & Philip Maldari: America's Role in World Transformed
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nANDREW BACEVICH + PHILIP MALDARI Zoom Event \nAfter the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed \nA bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century\, from the New York Times’ bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions. \nThe purpose of U.S. foreign policy has\, at least theoretically\, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world\, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington’s insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common good\, its faith in the idea of the “West” and its “special relationships\,” its conviction that global military primacy is the key to a stable and sustainable world order-these have brought endless wars and a succession of moral and material disasters. \nIn a bold reconception of America’s place in the world\, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum\, Andrew J. Bacevich-founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft\, a bipartisan Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy-lays down a new approach-one based on moral pragmatism\, mutual coexistence\, and war as a last resort. Confronting the threats of the future-accelerating climate change\, a shift in the international balance of power\, and the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war-his crucial and provocative vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security. \nAndrew J. Bacevich Jr.  is an American historian specializing in international relations\, security studies\, American foreign policy\, and American diplomatic and military history. \nPhilip Maldari is the veteran\, widely respected host of KPFA Radio’s Sunday Morning Show\, a popular two hours of political interviews. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/andrew-bacevich-philip-maldari-americas-role-in-a-world-transformed-tickets-154436480671
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-bacevich-philip-maldari-americas-role-in-world-transformed/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Hedin
DESCRIPTION:reading from and discussing his new novel \nUnder The Spell \npublished by Northwestern University Press \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. \n———– \nUnder the Spell is the first novel by Benjamin Hedin\, a dazzling new voice in American fiction. Newly widowed Sandra is searching her husband’s email for financial information when she discovers a correspondence between him and a woman named Ryan. Rather than simply sharing the news of the death\, Sandra\, who is shocked and hungry for details\, instead impersonates her husband as she writes back to Ryan. This bold course of action will expose the secrets and solitude within her marriage\, prompting her to reconsider everything she once held dear. \nUnmoored and seeking connection\, Sandra also meets Lee\, a single mother with a drinking problem\, and begins babysitting her daughter. But Sandra can’t stop herself from continuing the correspondence with Ryan\, in the process uncovering more about her husband—and Ryan herself. A novel that forces us to question how much of a person\, even those closest to us\, remains obscure\, Under the Spell reveals the astonishing\, transformative power of grief. This compelling study in bereavement joins classics such as Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. \nBENJAMIN HEDIN is the author of In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now and editor of the anthology Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader. He has written for the New Yorker\, Time\, the Atlantic\, the Oxford American\, and the Chicago Tribune\, among other publications. Also a Grammy-nominated producer of documentary films\, he wrote the films Two Trains Runnin’ about the search for two forgotten blues singers and the multiple award-winning 2021 documentary MLK/FBI—called “eye-opening and jaw-dropping” by Rolling Stone. He lives in Atlanta. \nWhat has been said about UNDER THE SPELL \n\n\n\n“It’s impossible not to fall under the spell of this aptly titled novel. I started it compulsively\, cleverly lured into thinking I was reading one kind of novel—dangling the revelation of a sensationally secret adulterous affair\, beyond the grave—only to realize that I was reading quite a different book: the slower revelation of a relationship more messy and formless and uncharted than I had previously expected. And as the narrative taught me how to slow down (though it never loosens its grip)\, so I began to admire its richness and the subtlety of its lean but eloquent prose.” —James Wood\, book critic\, New Yorker \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“This novel about a grieving woman who has suddenly lost her husband in a car wreck is a brilliant story that could also be a song. It’s set in the Northwest but could be set in Arkansas. It’s filled with interesting characters and haunting mystery. From page to page\, you follow her as she experiences a dark comedy of strange and unsettling emotions that deaths and funerals have a way of bringing out of the people who are left behind. Like the best writers\, Ben knows his way around the written word. And like the best stories\, Under The Spell is at once contemporary and timeless.” —Lucinda Williams\, Grammy Award winner \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A novel that is both a terrific page-turner and a very moving depiction of grief; it really did have me under its spell.” —Roddy Doyle\, author of Love: A Novel
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SUMMARY:Rosecrans Baldwin and Geoff Manaugh
DESCRIPTION:Rosecrans Baldwin in conversation about his new book\, Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (MCD/FSG)\, with Geoff Manaugh. \n“Rosecrans Baldwin has created a sharp\, convincing work of acute observation. It is as clearheaded and nuanced as it is timely.” —Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Everything Now\nAmerica is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong\, for decades\, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America’s western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally\, aesthetically\, mythologically\, even technologically\, an independent territory\, defined less by distinct borders than by an aura of autonomy and a sense of unfurling destiny—this is the city-state of Los Angeles. \nDeeply reported and researched\, provocatively argued\, and eloquently written\, Rosecrans Baldwin’s Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles\, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others\, from canonical L.A. literature to everyday citizens. Here\, Octavia E. Butler and Joan Didion are in conversation with activists and astronauts\, vampires and veterans. Baldwin records the stories of countless Angelenos\, discovering people both upended and reborn: by disasters natural and economic\, following gospels of wealth or self-help or personal destiny. The result is a story of a kaleidoscopic\, vibrant nation unto itself—vastly more than its many\, many parts. \nBaldwin’s concept of the city-state allows us\, finally\, to grasp a place—Los Angeles—whose idiosyncrasies both magnify those of America\, and are so fully its own. Here\, space and time don’t quite work the same as they do elsewhere\, and contradictions are as stark as southern California’s natural environment. Perhaps no better place exists to watch the United States’s past\, and its possible futures\, play themselves out. \nWelcome to Los Angeles\, the Great American City-State. \nAbout the participants\nRosecrans Baldwin is the author of The Last Kid Left\, You Lost Me There\, and Paris\, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down. He is a frequent contributor to GQ\, and co-founded the online zine The Morning News. He lives in Los Angeles. \nGeoff Manaugh is the author of the New York Times-bestseller A Burglar’s Guide to the City\, as well as the architecture and technology website BLDGBLOG. He regularly writes for The New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, Wired\, and many other publications. His new book\, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine\, will be published by MCD in July.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosecrans-baldwin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:THE GUNCLE by Steven Rowley | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 22\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE GUNCLE by Steven Rowley. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88422889388. \nYou can order a print copy at https://bit.ly/ggpGuncle or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/GuncleAB. \nDescription\n\nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. \nPatrick\, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP\, for short)\, has always loved his niece\, Maisie\, and nephew\, Grant. That is\, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits\, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children\, no matter how adorable\, Patrick is\, honestly\, overwhelmed. \nSo when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick’s brother has a health crisis of his own\, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of “Guncle Rules” ready to go\, Patrick has no idea what to expect\, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love\, a somewhat-stalled acting career\, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. Quickly realizing that parenting–even if temporary–isn’t solved with treats and jokes\, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility\, and the realization that\, sometimes\, even being larger than life means you’re unfailingly human. \nWith the humor and heart we’ve come to expect from bestselling author Steven Rowley\, The Guncle is a moving tribute to the power of love\, patience\, and family in even the most trying of times. \nAbout the Author\n\nSteven Rowley is the author of The Editor and the national bestseller Lily and the Octopus\, which has been translated into nineteen languages. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist\, and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, Rowley is a graduate of Emerson College. He lives in Palm Springs\, California. \nPraise For…\n\nOne of O\, The Oprah Magazine‘s “32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021”  \n“A laugh-out-loud heartwarmer.” –O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“Heartwarming\, hilarious…Rowley finds humor and poignancy in the snappy narrative….Readers will find this delightful and illuminating.” –Publishers Weekly
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SUMMARY:"Look at Him" by Anna Starobinets: Reading and Discussion\, curated by Katherine E. Young
DESCRIPTION:Location:\nGlobus Books YouTube Channel\nhttps://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos \nWebsite \n\nGlobus Books is honored to invite you to a reading and discussion of “Look at Him” by Anna Starobinets (translated into English by Katherine E. Young). Katherine E. Young will be joined by translators\, scholars and writers Jane Bugaeva\, Muireann Maguire\, Jamie Rann\, and Svetlana Satchkova\, and Zarina Zabrisky. The program will be moderated by Muireann Maguire.\nAnna Starobinets is a writer and scriptwriter. She works in various genres: sci-fi\, dystopias and horrors for adults; fairy and detective stories for children. Starobinets received multiple Russian and European literature awards\, including the European Science Fiction Society (ESFS) award in the «Best European Sci-fi author» category (EuroCon-2018). Her children’s book series “А Beastly Crimes Book” was a bestseller in Russia and was translated into nine languages. Starobinets’ books are translated and published in the UK\, US\, Japan\, Spain\, Germany\, France\, Italy\, Netherlands\, Sweden\, Bulgaria\, Poland\, Greece\, Latvia\, Czech Republic\, Turkey\, and more. Starobinets teaches her own creative writing workshop and she is the author and presenter of educational games “Literary mafia: interactive detective” and “Literary magic: interactive fantasy”.\nHer only non-fiction autobiographical book “Look at him” brings to light the inhumane attitude of the Russian healthcare system and society towards women pregnant with fetuses with pathologies. Starobinets wrote it to speak out loud about this traditionally silenced problem in order to force social changes. The book started a broad discussion of the subject in literary and medical circles. Anna is a widow of writer Alexander Garros\, and she is raising two kids and a poodle Coconut.\n\nJane Bugaeva translates Russian children’s literature\, as well as illustrated and whimsical texts for all ages. Her prose translations include Anna Starobinets’ Catlantis (Pushkin Press\, NYRB) and her four-book middle-grade series Beastly Crimes (Dover Publications). She lives in North Carolina with her husband and daughter.\nMuireann Maguire is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the University of Exeter; she is a freelance translator and a researcher in Russian literature from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. She is working on a book-length study of fictional accounts of pregnancy and childbirth in Russian and Western literature called Hideous Agonies\, and she irregularly writes a blog on the same topic in global literature\, The Pregnancy Test.\nJames Rann is a scholar and translator of Russian literature\, based at the University of Glasgow. He mostly translates contemporary fiction\, notably Anna Starobinets\, but his research focuses on the avant-garde—the subject of his recent book The Unlikely Futurist: Pushkin and the Invention of Originality in Russian Modernism.\nSvetlana Satchkova is a NYC-based writer and journalist. While working as a magazine editor in her native Russia\, she published three books of prose. Presently\, she is completing her first novel in English and pursuing an MFA in Fiction at Brooklyn College\, where she is a Truman Capote fellow.\nKatherine E. Young is the author of Woman Drinking Absinthe and Day of the Border Guards. She has translated Look at Him by Anna Starobinets\, as well as work by Akram Aylisli\, Inna Kabysh\, and numerous Russophone poets; she was named a 2017 NEA translation fellow. She served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington\, Virginia. https://katherine-young-poet.com/\nZarina Zabrisky is the author of three short story collections and a novel “We\, Monsters” (Numina Press\, 2014). Zabrisky’s work appeared in nine countries in over fifty literary magazines and anthologies\, including The Nervous Breakdown\, A Capella Zoo\, The Rumpus\, Guernica\, and received nominations and awards\, including 2013 Acker Awards for Avant-Garde Excellence. Zabrisky runs literary and cultural programs at Globus Books.\nThis event is in English and will be held on Zoom on June 23\, 2021\, at 10.00 am PST (SF)\, 1.00 pm EST (NY)\, 20.00 (Moscow.)\n There will be a limited number of seats; please contact Globus Books via FB messenger to register. We will also be live streaming the event on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) and later will share the edited version of the program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/look-at-him-by-anna-starobinets-reading-and-discussion-curated-by-katherine-e-young/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jonathan Lee and Megha Majumdar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, June 23 at 6pm PT when Jonathan Lee is joined by Megha Majumdar to discuss his latest novel\, The Great Mistake\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85879379881\n\nPraise for The Great Mistake\n“Jonathan Lee’s wily\, virtuosic\, very beautiful new novel is an intimate portrait of a public man that also serves as an X-ray of America. The Great Mistake is a great novel of New York\, in which the shaping of public space becomes inextricable from the loneliness\, longing\, and ferocious ambition of a single\, damaged man.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You\n\n“Jonathan Lee is quietly becoming one of the best young novelists on either side of the Atlantic. The Great Mistake is a sweeping historical novel that is also a gripping mystery.” —The Observer (UK)\n\n“Few writers working today have Jonathan Lee’s range or eye for detail. Fewer still are capable of\nroaming minds and histories with such bittersweet\, richly detailed ease\, or taking on with such profound depth all the messy\, hilarious\, heartbreaking humanity of a person\, and a time\, and indeed an entire city. The Great Mistake is a wonder and a delight.” —Téa Obreht\, author of The Tiger’s Wife\n\n“Riveting\, immersive…An unparalleled feat of elegance and craftsmanship” –Stephanie Danler\, author of Sweetbitter\n\nAbout The Great Mistake\nAn exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century\, about one man’s rise to fame and fortune\, and his mysterious murder.\n\nAndrew Haswell Green is dead\, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three\, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight\, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer\, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park\, no Metropolitan Museum of Art\, no Museum of Natural History\, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret\, a life locked within him that now\, in the hour of his death\, may finally break free.\nA work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion\, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed\, a murder that made a private man infamous\, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jonathan-lee-and-megha-majumdar-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jonathan Lee and Megha Majumdar
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, JUNE 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN JONATHAN LEE IS JOINED BY MEGHA MAJUMDAR TO DISCUSS HIS LATEST NOVEL\, THE GREAT MISTAKE\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85879379881\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,85879379881#  or +13462487799\,\,85879379881#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbaqFmq5Km \nPraise for The Great Mistake\n“Jonathan Lee’s wily\, virtuosic\, very beautiful new novel is an intimate portrait of a public man that also serves as an X-ray of America. The Great Mistake is a great novel of New York\, in which the shaping of public space becomes inextricable from the loneliness\, longing\, and ferocious ambition of a single\, damaged man.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n“Jonathan Lee is quietly becoming one of the best young novelists on either side of the Atlantic. The Great Mistake is a sweeping historical novel that is also a gripping mystery.” —The Observer (UK) \n“Few writers working today have Jonathan Lee’s range or eye for detail. Fewer still are capable of roaming minds and histories with such bittersweet\, richly detailed ease\, or taking on with such profound depth all the messy\, hilarious\, heartbreaking humanity of a person\, and a time\, and indeed an entire city. The Great Mistake is a wonder and a delight.” —Téa Obreht\, author of The Tiger’s Wife \nAbout The Great Mistake\nAn exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century\, about one man’s rise to fame and fortune\, and his mysterious murder—“Riveting\, immersive…An unparalleled feat of elegance and craftsmanship” (Stephanie Danler\, author of Sweetbitter). \nAndrew Haswell Green is dead\, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three\, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight\, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the\ncity.Born to a struggling farmer\, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park\, no Metropolitan Museum of Art\, no Museum of Natural History\, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret\, a life locked within him that now\, in the hour of his death\, may finally break free. A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion\, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed\, a murder that made a private man infamous\, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jonathan-lee-and-megha-majumdar/
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SUMMARY:Emily Rapp Black and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Emily Rapp Black discusses her new book\, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg (Notting Hill Editions)\, with Matthew Zapruder. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon \nAbout Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg\nAt first sight of Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas\, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood\, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world. \nKahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash\, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo’s art\, Rapp Black recognized her own life\, from the numerous operations to the compulsion to create to silence pain. Here she tells her story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs\, giving birth to a daughter\, and learning to accept her body. She writes of how Frida Kahlo inspired her to find a way forward when all seemed lost. \nAbout Emily Rapp Black and Matthew Zapruder\nEmily Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World\, a New York Times bestseller and an Editors’ Pick. Her work has appeared in numerous publications\, including Vogue; The New York Times; Time; The Wall Street Journal; O\, The Oprah Magazine; and the Los Angeles Times. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and is the nonfiction editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Rapp is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California\, Riverside\, where she also teaches medical narratives in the university’s School of Medicine. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry. His poetry\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, and The Believer. An associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program and English department\, he is also editor at large at Wave Books and\, from 2016 to 2017\, was the editor of the poetry page of the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-rapp-black-and-matthew-zapruder/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Jamie Brenner Discussing BLUSH in a GGP Online Author Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, June 23\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of BLUSH with author Jamie Brenner in a GGP Online Chat. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83225997080\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of BLUSH at http://bit.ly/ggpBlush\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/BlushAB. \nDescription\n\nFrom acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family’s future.  \nFor decades\, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips on the North Fork of Long Island. But behind the lush vineyards and majestic estate house\, the Hollander family fortunes have suffered and the threat of a sale brings old wounds to the surface. For matriarch Vivian\, she fears that this summer season could be their last—and that selling their winery to strangers could expose a dark secret she’s harbored for decades. Meanwhile\, her daughter\, Leah\, who was turned away from the business years ago\, finds her marriage at a crossroads and returns home for a sorely needed escape. And granddaughter Sadie\, grappling with a crisis of her own\, runs to the vineyard looking for inspiration. \nBut when Sadie uncovers journals from Vivian’s old book club dedicated to scandalous novels of decades past\, she realizes that this might be the distraction they all need. Reviving the “trashy” book club\, the Hollander women find that the stories hold the key to their fight not only for the vineyeard\, but for the life and love they’ve wanted all along. \nBlush is a bighearted story of love\, family\, and second chances\, and an ode to the blockbuster novels that have shaped generations of women. \nAbout the Author\n\nJamie Brenner is the author of five novels\, including The Forever Summer and The Wedding Sisters. She grew up in suburban Philadelphia on a steady diet of Jackie Collins and Judith Krantz novels\, and later moved to New York City to live like the heroines of her favorite books. Jamie now divides her time between Philadelphia and Provincetown. \nPraise For…\n\n“Brenner’s lovely latest begs to be read with a view and a glass of wine….Brenner tackles complex issues including gender equality and the devaluation of women’s interests with a light hand\, balancing heavy topics with copious descriptions of wine\, cheese\, and classic romances. [Blush] is sure to please.” –Publishers Weekly \n“Brenner deftly pulls from the canon for steamy encounters and dramatic confrontations—some worthy of a Dynasty reboot. A perfect beach read about a family crisis resolved by women.” –Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-jamie-brenner-discussing-blush-in-a-ggp-online-author-chat/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Helene Wecker\, The Hidden Palace
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Helene Wecker’s debut novel\, The Golem and the Jinni\, was a runaway bestseller that snagged multiple awards. Now\, after seven years\, she is back with a sequel. In this enthralling historical epic\, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading up to World War I\, Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world. This event is cosponsored by Temple Beth El. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n  \nChava is a golem\, a woman made of clay\, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni\, a perpetually restless and free-spirited creature of fire\, imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they’ll be exposed as monsters\, these magical beings hide their true selves and pretend to be human—just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Having encountered each other under calamitous circumstances\, Chava and Ahmad’s lives are now entwined—but they’re not yet certain of what they mean to each other. \nEach has unwittingly affected the humans around them. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston\, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold\, travels to the Middle East to seek a cure. There she meets a tempestuous female jinni who’s been banished from her tribe. Back in New York\, in a tenement on the Lower East Side\, a little girl named Kreindel helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele—not knowing that she’s about to be sent to an orphanage uptown\, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector. \nSpanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I\, The Hidden Palace follows these lives and others as they collide and interleave. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apart—especially once they encounter\, thrillingly\, other beings like themselves? \nHelene Wecker’s debut novel\, The Golem and the Jinni\, was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature\, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award. A Midwest native\, she holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran\, as well as in the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-helene-wecker-the-hidden-palace/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Doug Henderson in conversation with K.M. Soehnlein
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nThe Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club \npublished by University of Iowa Press \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted. \n———– \n\n\n\nOn Thursday nights\, the players assemble in the back of Readmore Comix and Games. Celeste is the dungeon master; Valerie\, who works at the store\, was roped in by default; Mooneyham\, the banker\, likes to argue; and Ben\, sensitive\, unemployed\, and living at home\, is still recovering from an unrequited love. In the real world they go about their days falling in love\, coming out at work\, and dealing with their family lives all with varying degrees of success. But in the world of their fantasy game\, they are heroes and wizards fighting to stop an evil cult from waking a sleeping god. \nBut then a sexy new guy\, Albert\, joins the club\, Ben’s character is killed\, and Mooneyham’s boyfriend is accosted on the street. The connections and parallels between the real world and the fantasy one become stronger and more important than ever as Ben struggles to bring his character back to life and win Albert’s affection\, and the group unites to organize a protest at a neighborhood bar. All the while the slighted and competing vampire role playing club\, working secretly in the shadows\, begins to make its move. \nDoug Henderson is a winner of the 2019 PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for his short story\, The Manga Artist\, which was also runner-up for the 2018 Iowa Review Award for Fiction. His debut novel\, The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club\, is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. Originally from Cleveland\, he received his MFA from the University of San Francisco. He lives in the Castro District with his husband\, their two children\, and a large collection of role playing games. \nK. M. Soehnlein is the author of the novels The World of Normal Boys and You Can Say You Knew Me When. He was also part of the band The Cubby Creatures. \nWhat has been said about The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club \n\n\n\n“Henderson’s novel is sure to delight proud nerds with its story of a young man searching to belong against a backdrop of mischief and magic.”—Foreword Reviews \n“Henderson has created something special—part Hobbit and part Breakfast Club—a bittersweet story of love and friendship that tackles big subjects like homophobia\, social anxiety\, and coming out with a touch of magic. Even if you can’t tell neutral-chaotic from lawful-good\, or a paladin from a druid\, you’ll be swept up with Ben and his lovable band of outsiders—where the game becomes a map for real life and real life sets the course for the game.”—K. M. Soehnlein\, The World of Normal Boys \n“It turns out that you don’t have to be a gay gamer nerd from Ohio to love Doug Henderson’s novel The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club. You just need to be someone who likes to laugh\, or likes to watch people awkwardly attempt love and friendship\, or likes to read a sweet\, funny story about that time the geek got the boy. Henderson is a quirky\, terrific\, entertaining storyteller.”—Lori Ostlund\, After the Parade \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/doug-henderson-in-conversation-with-k-m-soehnlein/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in conversation with Alejandro Murguía
DESCRIPTION:discussing Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s \nNot A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion \npublished by Beacon Press \nDebunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants\, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States. \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. (link coming soon!) \n———– \nWhether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table\, many Americans\, regardless of party affiliation\, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book\, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism\, genocide\, white supremacy\, slavery\, and structural inequality\, all of which we still grapple with today. \nShe explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization\, justice\, reparations\, and social equality. Moreover\, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good—but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress\, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state\, and imperialist since its inception. \nWhile some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants\, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial\, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States. \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize\, and is the author or editor of many books\, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro. \nAlejandro Murguía is the author of Southern Front and This War Called Love (both winners of the American Book Award). His non-fiction book The Medicine of Memory highlights the Mission District in the 1970s during the Nicaraguan Solidarity movement. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center. He was a founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade\, and co-editor of Volcán: Poetry From Central America. Currently he is a professor in Latina Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of the short story “The Other Barrio” which first appeared in the anthology San Francisco Noir and recently filmed in the street of the Mission District. In poetry he has published Spare Poems\, and this year a new collection Native Tongue. He is the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino poet to hold the position. \nPraise for Not A Nation of Immigrants \n“In this book\, a precious gift drawn from an amazingly rich life and a prodigious life of learning\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz urges us to disavow the violence of the US settler nation-state\, its discursive erasures of native peoples and its material relations of dispossession. The struggle for workers’ rights and working-class solidarity\, she reminds us\, involves the fight against capitalism\, imperialism\, and colonialism for the liberation of all peoples.”\n—Gary Y. Okihiro\, author of Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation \n“Not ‘a Nation of Immigrants’ challenges to the core one of the most dominant narratives about the United States\, as a country founded by and welcoming for immigrants. Dunbar-Ortiz’s captivating and accessible historical account forces a reckoning with the various layers of the US imperialist project\, from territorial control to economic and political influence at the expense of Black populations\, migrants\, and Indigenous peoples. This myth-shattering book addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time by demonstrating the implications of White supremacy across time\, across groups and spaces\, and the connections between them. If there is hope for transformation\, it is through the careful\, systematic work that this book exemplifies by examining the roots of racism and structural inequality\, and bringing forward alternative narratives and movements. It is a must-read.”\n—Alexandra Délano\, chair and associate professor of global studies\, The New School \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has produced a remarkable\, engrossing\, and readable reexamination of US history. She unites an analysis of the construction of ‘race’ and racism\, with the construction of settler colonialism\, demonstrating both the historical inaccuracy as well as the strategic blind spot created by thinking of the USA as a ‘nation of immigrants.’ But she does more. Dunbar-Ortiz links the construction of the US as a racial settler state with the growth of US imperialism\, decisively demonstrating that global expansion was not accidental nor a matter of policy alone\, but the direct outcome of the DNA of the racial settler state.”\n—Bill Fletcher Jr.\, trade unionist and author of “They’re Bankrupting Us!” And Twenty Other Myths About Unions \n“What do the Iroquois or Navajo think of the Statue of Liberty? With characteristic grit and brio\, Dunbar-Ortiz demonstrates how profoundly the settler colonial history of the United States and the ideology of ‘white nativism’ have shaped both immigration policy and immigrant identity.”\n—Mike Davis\, author of Prisoners of the American Dream \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a one-woman wrecking ball against the tower of lies erected by generations of official and television historians—people who make a living glorifying slave traders and exterminators of Native Americans.”\n—Ishmael Reed \n“This book is meticulously researched and written with eloquence and passion. With it\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, one of our preeminent radical historians\, once again delivers a powerful and provocative indictment of settler colonialism and white nationalism\, which were foundational in building this country. It could not be more timely. A must-read history for our troubling present.”\n—Barbara Ransby\, author of Making All Black Lives Matter \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s incisive book Not ‘a Nation of Immigrants’ challenges the multicultural myth of US nationalist triumphalism and\, instead\, powerfully exposes settler colonialism\, wars of conquest\, and white nationalism as central pillars of immigration. This is a must-read to finally discard unquestioning settler American liberalism and patriotism.”\n—Harsha Walia\, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism \n“Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz rightly argues that the United States is not ‘a nation of immigrants’ but\, more accurately\, a nation of colonizers. A must-read.”\n—Nick Estes (Lakota)\, author of Our History Is the Future \n“We are here because you were there. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz methodically unravels the pernicious myth of ‘a nation of immigrants\,’ standing in the way of collective well-being on this continent and beyond.”\n—Manu Karuka\, author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations\, Chinese Workers\, and the Transcontinental Railroad \n“Once again\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz demonstrates why she is one of the foremost historical scholars we have today\, and Not ‘A Nation of Immigrants’ is her most crucial offering yet\, opening new insights on this country’s sordid history of systemic oppression\, exclusion\, and erasure. If we look honestly at ourselves\, as human beings occupying this specific slice of space and time together\, we see that Dunbar-Ortiz is giving us a thoroughly researched and genuine road map for what we can become\, if we dare. Vital reading for anyone with two eyes\, a brain\, and a beating heart.”\n—Tim Z. Hernandez\, author of All They Will Call You \n“Simply put\, if you read this book and learn its lessons\, you will have to change everything you think about the history of the United States and the terms we use to fight for justice. It’s your call\, but I suggest you put the book in your basket and head for the check-out counter right now.”\n—Walter Johnson\, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States \n“From being deeply shaken and disturbed\, to ultimately feeling exhilarated and optimistic by Dunbar-Ortiz’s conclusion and ‘call to arms\,’ this is a paradigm-shifting work. Dunbar-Ortiz eviscerates ‘the benevolent version of US nationalism’ by showing how the United States has always sought to enlist its new arrivals as accomplices to colonial conquest and mass murder. There is a reckoning on every page of this liberating book.”\n—Patrick Higgins\, anti-imperialist historian and activist \n“Placing settler colonialism at the center\, Dunbar-Ortiz untangles the meaning of immigration in a settler state based on the elimination of the Native population. The book traces a ‘self-indigenizing narrative’ by which white immigrants laid claim to the country\, turning an aggressive white nationalism into the foundation of US identity. European immigrants became American\, and became white\, Dunbar-Ortiz shows\, by adopting the country’s settler identity. In a tour de force that takes readers from the American Revolution to nineteenth-century New Mexico to contemporary Appalachia to Hamilton and Donald Trump\, she shows how different groups of immigrants assimilated into a settler identity that perpetuates US racism and militarism. The book also makes clear that a superficial ‘multicultural’ approach to revising US history still fails to tackle the heart of the problem: colonialism. You will never look at US history the same way after reading Not ‘A Nation of Immigrants.’”\n—Aviva Chomsky\, author of Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-in-conversation-with-alejandro-murguia/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On Finding the Mother Tree
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence and hailed as a scientist who conveys complex\, technical ideas in ways that are dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls in James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. \nSuzanne’s inspiring and accessible work illuminates how trees-living side by side for hundreds of years-have evolved\, how they perceive one another\, learn and adapt their behaviors\, recognize neighbors\, and remember the past. Trees have agency about the future\, eliciting warnings and mounting defenses. They compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication-characteristics ascribed to human intelligence and traits that are the essence of civil societies-and at the center of all this complexity and nuance-the Mother Trees\, mysterious\, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. \nIn her latest book\, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest\, Suzanne writes of her own life\, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia\, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest\, and of her own journey-of love and loss\, of observation and change\, of risk and reward\, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology. \nJoin scholar and CIIS staff member Laura Pustarfi for a conversation about Suzanne’s life and work\, her latest book\, and learn more about the connectedness of the Mother Tree that nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do\, and how these inseparable bonds enable our survival. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/simard-suzanne-june-24-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-finding-the-mother-tree/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jenny Bitner
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, June 25 at 6pm PT when Jenny Bitner discusses her book\, Here is a Game We Could Play\, on Zoom!\n\nBroadcast live from Green Apple Books\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84868544257\n\nPraise for Here is a Game We Could Play\n“Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person\, in its absence as much as its presence\, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection\, it is a ‘terrible and beautiful thing.”—Foreword Reviews\, starred review\n\n“Tender\, yearning\, and dangerously imagined. . . A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild.”—Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying\n\n“Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut.”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars\n\nAbout Here is a Game We Could Play\nThis original\, funny\, and moving novel follows Claudia\, a loner with an active fantasy life\, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships.\n\nA dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia\, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in—a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium\, loneliness\, and her obsessive fear of poisoning\, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover\, to whom she addresses letters about her life\, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios.\n\n​In each fantasy\, her lover takes a different form\, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden\, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms’ fairy tale\, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia\, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity—building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library\, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job\, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose\, the town’s new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose\, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past—the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed.\n\nFunny\, dark\, inventive\, and moving\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender\, Angela Carter\, Rebecca Brown\, and Margaret Atwood.\n\nAbout Jenny Bitner\nJenny Bitner’s stories\, essays\, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, PANK\, Fence\, Mississippi Review\, The Fabulist\, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jenny-bitner-3/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T180000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #64
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-64/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jenny Bitner
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, JUNE 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN JENNY BITNER DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, HERE IS A GAME WE COULD PLAY\, ON ZOOM!\nBROADCAST LIVE FROM GREEN APPLE BOOKS\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84868544257\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84868544257#  or +13462487799\,\,84868544257#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kii5v4tjd \nPraise for Here is a Game We Could Play\n“Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person\, in its absence as much as its presence\, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection\, it is a ‘terrible and beautiful thing.'”—Foreword Reviews\, starred review \n“Tender\, yearning\, and dangerously imagined. . .  A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild.”—Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying \n“Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut.”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \nAbout Here is a Game We Could Play\nThis original\, funny\, and moving novel follows Claudia\, a loner with an active fantasy life\, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships. \nA dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia\, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in—a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium\, loneliness\, and her obsessive fear of poisoning\, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover\, to whom she addresses letters about her life\, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios. \n​In each fantasy\, her lover takes a different form\, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden\, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms’ fairy tale\, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia\, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity—building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library\, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job\, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose\, the town’s new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose\, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past—the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed. \nFunny\, dark\, inventive\, and moving\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender\, Angela Carter\, Rebecca Brown\, and Margaret Atwood. \nAbout Jenny Bitner\nJenny Bitner‘s stories\, essays\, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, PANK\, Fence\, Mississippi Review\, The Fabulist\, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jenny-bitner/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jenny Bitner
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, JUNE 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN JENNY BITNER DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, HERE IS A GAME WE COULD PLAY\, ON ZOOM!\nBROADCAST LIVE FROM GREEN APPLE BOOKS\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84868544257\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84868544257#  or +13462487799\,\,84868544257#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kii5v4tjd \nPraise for Here is a Game We Could Play\n“Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person\, in its absence as much as its presence\, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection\, it is a ‘terrible and beautiful thing.'”—Foreword Reviews\, starred review \n“Tender\, yearning\, and dangerously imagined. . .  A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild.”—Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying \n“Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut.”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \nAbout Here is a Game We Could Play\nThis original\, funny\, and moving novel follows Claudia\, a loner with an active fantasy life\, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships. \nA dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia\, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in—a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium\, loneliness\, and her obsessive fear of poisoning\, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover\, to whom she addresses letters about her life\, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios. \n​In each fantasy\, her lover takes a different form\, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden\, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms’ fairy tale\, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia\, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity—building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library\, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job\, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose\, the town’s new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose\, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past—the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed. \nFunny\, dark\, inventive\, and moving\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender\, Angela Carter\, Rebecca Brown\, and Margaret Atwood. \nAbout Jenny Bitner\nJenny Bitner‘s stories\, essays\, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, PANK\, Fence\, Mississippi Review\, The Fabulist\, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jenny-bitner-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Youssef Alaoui\, Jason Bayani\, Genny Lim & Michael Warr
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response\, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to the social/ political/ racial/ justice narratives of four murals on Clarion Alley. \nCurated by CAMP artist and organizer Megan Wilson (wall) and poet Maw Shein Win (response)\, the fourth and final event in the series features Youssef Alaoui\, Jason Bayani\, Genny Lim and Michael Warr responding to the mural The Will To Live (2018)by Art Forces\, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)\, and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO). \nThe Will To Live (2018)by Art Forces\, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)\, and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO) celebrates and honors the lives of six Arab leaders: Rasmea Odeh\, Mehdi Ben Barka\, Naji Diafullah\, Leila Khaled\, Basel Al Araj\, and Yasser Mortaja. The mural manifests and expresses the resilience and resistance of the Bay Area community to attacks on freedom and liberties of Arab\, Muslim\, people of color\, immigrants and refugees. The Will To Live is one of five murals on Clarion Alley with messaging in support of Palestine and in solidarity to call an end to Israel’s apartheid and settler colonial state. The five murals have been hit with hate crime vandalism 21 times in the past two years\, between September 2018 – September 2020. CAMP and its artists continue to repair the works as an act of resilience and in support of the global movement for the Palestinian right of return. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n– ABOUT THE PROJECT – \nWall + Response was originally conceived to culminate in four quarterly public events to be presented on Clarion Alley. However\, due to the pandemic the poets will instead be filmed by videographer Mahima Kotian reading their work in front of the murals on Clarion Alley. Kotian will be creating videos for each series that will be presented as part of live online events (of which this is the first). All the events are free and open to the public. \nThe poets are creating new poems in response to the murals\, and will be reading those and other selected works at the events. The specific dates for each event will be announced in the month prior to the event. \nWall + Response is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Art Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. \n– ABOUT THE AUTHORS – \nYoussef Alaoui is a Moroccan Colombian American. His family and heritage are an endless source of inspiration for his varied\, dark\, spiritual and carnal writings. He has an MFA in Poetics from New College of California. His work has appeared in Exquisite Corpse\, Big Bridge\, 580 Split\, Dusie Press\, RIVET Journal\, Paris Lit Up\, The Opiate\, and nominated for a Pushcart at Full of Crow. His short story collection “Fiercer Monsters” was published by Nomadic Press of Oakland\, CA. His poetry collection “Critics of Mystery Marvel” was published by 2Leaf Press of NYC. www.youssefalaoui.info \nJason Bayani is the author ofLocus (Omnidawn Publishing 2019) and Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing 2013). He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop\, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country. His publishing credits include World Literature Today\, Muzzle Magazine\, Lantern Review\, and other publications. Jason performs regularly around the country and debuted his solo theater show “Locus of Control” in 2016 with theatrical runs in San Francisco\, New York\, and Austin. \nGenny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. Her most recent poetry-music collaboration\, Don’t Shoot! Requiem in Black\, dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, premiered at SF Jazz Center in April 2018 with Marshall Trammell\, Francis Wong\, and Equipto. Lim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play that aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the U.S.\, Canada and China. She is author of five poetry collections\, Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo\, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, winner of the American Book Award and the forthcoming anthology of Senior Asian American memoirs\, Window: Glimpses of Our Storied Past. \nSan Francisco poet Michael Warr is the 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. He is a San Francisco Library Laureate and recipient of a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His poetry is translated into Chinese as part of “Two Languages / One Community” a collaborative project with poet and translator Chun Yu. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \n \n– OTHER PARTICIPATING AUTHORS + EVENTS –  \nFebruary 26. 2021: Karla Brundage\, Jennifer Hasegawa\, Tureeda Mikell\, and Kim Shuck responding to the mural We Want Respect\, Freedom\, Land\, Housing\, Justice\, Peace\, Bread by Emory Douglas/Black Panther Party / Remix by CUBA\, D8\, MACE \nApril 30\, 2021: Celeste Chan\, MK Chavez\, Paul Corman-Roberts and Tim Xonnelly responding to the mural Affordable Housing/Vivienda Asequible by the SF Print Collective working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) \n– ABOUT THE CURATORS –  \nMegan Wilson is a visual artist\, writer\, and activist based in San Francisco. Wilson has been a core organizer of Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) since 2001. In 2018 she co-directed and co-organized (with Christopher Statton and Nano Warsono) CAMP’s second international exchange and residency project\, Bangkit /Arise between artists from Yogyakarta\, Indonesia and San Francisco/Bay Area in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The second phase of the project will take place 2021-22. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito\, California (2016 – 2018)\, and her poetry collection Storage Unit for the Spirit Housewill be published by Omnidawn in October 2020. \n\n \n\nYou can read more about CAMP and Wall + Response here. \n— \nThis virtual event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-wall-response-youssef-alaoui-jason-bayani-genny-lim-michael-warr/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Heino Falcke and Kate Greene
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, JUNE 26 AT 12PM PT WHEN HEINO FALCKE IS JOINED BY KATE GREENE TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK\, LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS: BLACK HOLES\, THE UNIVERSE\, AND US\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87957350367\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87957350367#  or +13462487799\,\,87957350367#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd8jY8diBt \nAbout Light in the Darkness\nA fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the nature of black holes—a blend of the spiritual\, the philosophical\, and the scientific—from the premier German astrophysicist who made history in 2018\, capturing the first one on film. \nA Light in the Darkness is the story of one of the greatest astronomical achievements of all time: the first photographic evidence of black holes in April 2018\, and its significance for humanity\, told by the scientist who accomplished it. A man of faith ordained in the Protestant tradition\, Heino Falcke wrestles with the ways in which black holes force us to confront the boundary where human life ends and the celestial begins. He also ponders why black holes are difficult for most of us to understand—comparing it to our inability to envisage our own inevitable death. \nBlack holes develop in outer space when a massive star dies\, and its matter is condensed. That extreme amount of mass contained in a small space generates a gigantic amount of gravitational force\, allowing the black hole to suck up everything that comes near\, including light. These astronomical wonders are the subject of our greatest scientific and philosophical theorizing—the journey to a black hole would be the journey to the end of time itself. In this way\, Falcke regards them as the most exquisite representations of fear\, death . . . and\, surprisingly\, the divine. \nEmpirical and profound\, A Light in the Darkness is the first work to examine both the physical nature and spiritual meaning of black holes\, those astrophysical mysteries Falcke\, calls “the epitome of merciless destruction.” \nAbout Heino Falcke\nHeino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize. His main field of study is black holes. He lives in Berlin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-heino-falcke-and-kate-greene/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Heino Falcke and Kate Greene
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, JUNE 26 AT 12PM PT WHEN HEINO FALCKE IS JOINED BY KATE GREENE TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK\, LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS: BLACK HOLES\, THE UNIVERSE\, AND US\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87957350367\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87957350367#  or +13462487799\,\,87957350367#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd8jY8diBt \nAbout Light in the Darkness\nA fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the nature of black holes—a blend of the spiritual\, the philosophical\, and the scientific—from the premier German astrophysicist who made history in 2018\, capturing the first one on film. \nA Light in the Darkness is the story of one of the greatest astronomical achievements of all time: the first photographic evidence of black holes in April 2018\, and its significance for humanity\, told by the scientist who accomplished it. A man of faith ordained in the Protestant tradition\, Heino Falcke wrestles with the ways in which black holes force us to confront the boundary where human life ends and the celestial begins. He also ponders why black holes are difficult for most of us to understand—comparing it to our inability to envisage our own inevitable death. \nBlack holes develop in outer space when a massive star dies\, and its matter is condensed. That extreme amount of mass contained in a small space generates a gigantic amount of gravitational force\, allowing the black hole to suck up everything that comes near\, including light. These astronomical wonders are the subject of our greatest scientific and philosophical theorizing—the journey to a black hole would be the journey to the end of time itself. In this way\, Falcke regards them as the most exquisite representations of fear\, death . . . and\, surprisingly\, the divine. \nEmpirical and profound\, A Light in the Darkness is the first work to examine both the physical nature and spiritual meaning of black holes\, those astrophysical mysteries Falcke\, calls “the epitome of merciless destruction.” \nAbout Heino Falcke\nHeino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize. His main field of study is black holes. He lives in Berlin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-heino-falcke-and-kate-greene-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210626T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210627T200000
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of the Pioneering Legacy of Sasha and Ann Shulgin
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Transform Press and Synergetic Press present \nA Celebration Of The Pioneering Legacy of Sasha and Ann Shulgin \n   \nBold explorers of the frontiers of neurochemistry\, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin\, master psychopharmacologist\, along with his wife Ann\, during their lifetimes\, helped usher into being a major paradigm shift in the way we view the exploration of human consciousness. In June 2021\, Synergetic Press and Transform Press will publish The Nature of Drugs: History\, Pharmacology\, and Social Impact. This will be the first book by Sasha since 2011. Together\, Transform and Synergetic have scheduled an exceptional new series of books for release over the next two years celebrating Professor Shulgin’s life and work. \nTo coincide with this auspicious occasion\, a consortium including his publishers and numerous supporters of his work present a weekend Virtual symposium (June 26 & 27\, 2021) exploring the many aspects of Alexander Shulgin’s life and legacy. Through a series of sessions comprising lectures and panel discussions\, we will pay tribute to a man known to many as one of the great pioneers of the exploration of human consciousness. \nThe two-day online event is free. A brief outline of the program follows. Confirmed participants include Ann Shulgin\, Michael Pollan\, Wendy Tucker\, Mariavittoria Mangini\, David Nichols\, David Presti\, Bridgette and Stanislav Groff\, Bob Jesse\, Hamilton Morris\, Janis Phelps\, Kile Ortigo\, Mike Margolies\, Leonard Pickard\, Paul Daley and many others. \nSpecial thanks goes out to California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)\, Erowid Center\, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)\, and the Usona Institute for their support of this event. \n  \nEvents are free but require registration. Click the provided links to reserve a placement. \n  \nSaturday\, June 26\, 2021 \n12pm – 2pm Pacific / Session 1: The Shulgin’s Pioneering Psychedelic Research \nHost: Peter Maravelis\, introduction to event and reflections on City Lights relationship to consciousness studies\nModerator: Bob Jesse – researcher\, engineer\, convener of the Council on Spiritual Practices (CSP.org)\nBrigitte and Stanislav Grof – Stan Groff is the world’s leading researcher in psychedelic therapy\, breathwork\, and the exploration of non-ordinary states of consciousness\, with wife and psychotherapist\, Brigitte\nDavid Nichols – co-founder Heffter Institute\, Chair in Pharmacology at the Purdue University College of Pharmacy\nPaul Daley – Chief Science Officer and Chemist\, Alexander Shulgin Research Institute\nAnn Shulgin\nWendy Tucker – Publisher\, Transform Press\, daughter of Ann Shulgin\nConnie Littlefield –  filmmaker\, producer “Better Living Through Chemistry\,” documentary\nEarth and Fire Erowid – cofounders of the non-profit Erowid Center\, largest and most visited collection of information about psychoactives on the web \n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n——– \n3pm – 5pm Pacific / Session 2: Stories from the Edge: Trailblazers in Psychopharmacology \nModerator: Dr. Mariavittoria Mangini – family nurse midwife for 25 years\, author of numerous papers on historiography and social impacts of psychedelics\nGeorge Greer – psychotherapist\, cofounder Heffter Research Institute\, and Requa Greer\, nurse practitioner\, pioneers in MDMA medical research\nDennis McKenna – ethnobotanist\, author\, founder of the McKenna Academy of Naturalist Philosophy\nKeeper Trout – ethnobotanist\, conservationsist\, curator the Shulgin Archive Project \n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n—————————————————————- \n  \nSunday\, June 27\, 2021 \n12:00pm – 2:00pm Pacific / Session 3: Currents in Psychedelic Research & Regulation \nModerator: Hamilton Morris – chemist\, filmmaker\, and science journalist\nDr. Rick Doblin – cofounder\, CEO\, MAPS and John Gilmore\, Chairman\, MAPS\, cofounder Electronic Frontier Foundation\nAmanda and Cosmo Feilding – Founder and Executive Director of the Beckley Foundation and Cosmo Feilding\, CEO\, Beckley Psytech\, Limited\nLeonard Pickard –  chemist\, author\, former research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School\, and Deputy Director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at UCLA\nDr. Paul Daley – CEO\, Chemist\, Alexander Shulgin Research Institute and Dr. Nick Cozzi – professor of pharmacology\, research scientist\n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n———- \n3:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific / Session 4:    Psychedelic Psychotherapy & Social Impact \nModerator: Janis Phelps – Dean of Faculty at CIIS for the graduate departments in the School of Humanities and Social Science; founder and director of the CIIS Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research\nDr. David Presti – director of UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics\, neurobiologist\, psychologist\, and cognitive scientist\nKile Ortigo – clinical psychologist and founder of the Center for Existential Exploration\, author of Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide For Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration\nBill Richards –  psychologist in the Psychiatry Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine\, consultant/trainer at sites of psychedelic research internationally\nAnnie Oak – Managing Editor\, Lucid News\, journalist\, long-time public health activist\, developed risk reduction strategies for event organizers; cofounder of Woman’s Visionary Council \n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n———– \n6:00pm – 8:00pm Pacific / Session 5: Towards a Sane and Healthy Future \nModerator: Mike Margolies – psychedelic community catalyst and conversation creator; Founder of Psychedelic Seminars (psychsems.com)\nBob Jesse – researcher\, engineer\, convener of the Council on Spiritual Practices (CSP.org)\nMichael Pollan – NYTimes bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind\, cofounder UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics\nAnn Shulgin author\, collaborator with Sasha Shulgin\, with her daughter\, Wendy Tucker – Publisher\, Transform Press\nDr. Julie Holland – psychiatrist specializing in psychopharmacology\, author of numerous books\, most recent Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection\, From Soul to Psychedelics \nClosing statements with Paul Daley\, Ann & Wendy & Trout – and the work of the Shulgin Foundation and forthcoming publications \n(CLICK HERE) to make reservations. \n————– \nClick the following links to purchase: \nThe Nature of Drugs (Link to be posted soon!) \nAlso available: \nPihkal (Link to be posted soon!) \nTihkal (Link to be posted soon!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-celebration-of-the-pioneering-legacy-of-sasha-and-ann-shulgin/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210626T170000
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SUMMARY:Nobuko Miyamoto Book Launch Celebration: Not Yo' Butterfly
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this celebration of a mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity\, political activism\, community\, and purpose by Nobuko Miyamoto. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, J-SEI\, and UC Berkeley’s Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Department. The event will also be live-streamed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eastwindbooksberkeley \n[Purchase a copy of Not Yo’ Butterfly here] On Special $27 with Nobuko Miyamoto’s autographed book plate \nNot Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist\, activist\, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II\, Miyamoto leads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and also foregrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories\, identities\, and power through activism and art. \nMiyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sand—considered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs\, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an Afro-Asian son\, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities\, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 Rodney King riots—and how she used art to create interracial solidarity and https://j-sei.org/about/conciliation. \nThrough it all\, Miyamoto has embraced her identity as an Asian American woman to create an antiracist body of work and a blueprint for empathy and praxis through community art. Her sometimes barbed\, often provocative\, and always steadfast story is now told. \nAnnouncing Author Nobuko Miyamoto’s New Album\, 120\,000 Stories. Smithsonian Folkways has just announced artist and activist Nobuko Miyamoto’s new album\, 120\,000 Stories. The album released January 29th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nobuko-miyamoto-book-launch-celebration-not-yo-butterfly/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210627T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210627T133000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Tara Brach\, Trusting the Gold
DESCRIPTION:ara Brach will join us for an online event to share Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness\, her beautifully illustrated gift book to help us uncover and trust the innate goodness in ourselves and others. This event is cosponsored by Insight Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nWe receive so many messages from our culture meant to divide us from one another or turn us against ourselves. Yet when we stop judging\, stop avoiding\, stop trying to resist that which makes us afraid or ashamed\, we open to our true nature―a boundless fi eld of awareness that is innately fearless and loving. \nThis recognition of our essential human goodness may be the most radical act of healing we can take. “The gold of our true nature can never be tarnished\,” says Tara Brach. “In the moments of remembering and trusting this basic goodness of our Being\, we open to happiness\, peace\, and freedom.” \nIn TRUSTING THE GOLD: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness\, Tara draws from more than four decades of experience as a meditation teacher and psychologist to share her most valuable practices for reconnecting with the beauty of our humanity―from timeless Buddhist wisdom to techniques adapted to the specific challenges of our modern age. Here you’ll explore three pathways of remembering and living from your full aliveness:\n• Opening to the Truth of the present moment\n• Turning toward Love in any situation\n• Resting in the Freedom of our natural\, radiant awareness \nBrach offers insights and practices for bringing these qualities into everyday life―including the particular challenges of our time such as fear for the future\, anger at authority fi gures\, and grief over injustice. “Even in the midst of our deepest emotional suffering\, self-compassion is the pathway that will carry us home\,” Dr. Brach writes. “What a joy to pause and behold our basic goodness\, and to see how it shines through each of us. Seeing that secret beauty\, we fall in love with all of life.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-tara-brach-trusting-the-gold/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210629T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210629T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135427
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SUMMARY:Senator Mazie Hirono with Jan Yanehiro
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT.  \nNew leaders are driving some of the biggest political shifts in our nation’s history as we speak. But do you know their stories? \nOnline this summer\, Kepler’s is excited to host a powerhouse in the Senate whose autobiography embodies a nation in transformation. On June 29\, Hawaiian Senator Mazie Hirono joins in conversation with acclaimed Bay Area journalist Jan Yanehiro for her memoir\, Heart of Fire. \nHeart of Fire marks Hirono’s journey from soft-spoken immigrant daughter to one of the leading voices for progressive causes today. This powerful memoir\, among the most anticipated of 2021\, finds the threads of Hirono’s determination in the strength and example of the Senator’s late mother. Laura Hirono was born in Waipahu\, Hawaii\, and immigrated to Japan. There she gave birth to three children\, and after years of struggle she chose despite incredible hurdles to leave an abusive marriage— returning to Hawaii to give her three children a better life\, all when Senator Hirono was just 7 years old. Mazie\, then called Keiko\, was raised in paradise and in relative poverty by a woman whose love was the shining example of courage. \nBehind the incredible voice that has garnered headlines for her work in immigration\, poverty\, racial equality and justice\, here is the captivating story of what makes the political personal for one transformative leader. \nFrom Waipahu to her role as the first Asian American woman and first immigrant woman on the Senate Floor\, Senator Hirono’s story rings with uniquely American beauty. It is a memoir that will inspire and move you\, no matter your politics. \nHear the Senator in person and set your heart on fire with Kepler’s this summer. \nWebinar space is limited\, so register early! Please consider joining with a book to support programs like this one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/senator-mazie-hirono-with-jan-yanehiro/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210629T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210629T193000
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: Doctors\, Diseases\, and Deities
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exploration of the art\, science\, and archaeology of medicine in Ancient Rome. This conversation examines a remarkable discovery in Rimini\, Italy that has given us an extraordinary amount of information concerning medicine and medical technology in ancient Rome. The “Domus del Chirurgo\,” (“House of the Surgeon”) is a treasure trove of artifacts that tell us a great deal about the practice of medicine almost 2000 years ago. We will then go on to discuss the Antonine Plague of the 2nd century\, one of the most severe pandemic events the Roman world ever confronted.\n\n\n\nThrough a combination of primary sources\, archaeological discoveries\, and modern science\, Sarah will examine the pathology of the plague as well as its impact on the economic\, political\, and religious life of the Roman Empire. What exactly was the “Antonine Plague?” Was it a factor in the destabilization of the Empire in the 3rd century? And most importantly\, what lessons can we learn about how to react to population-impacting medical crises today? \nSarah Yeomans is an archaeologist specializing in the Imperial period of the Roman Empire with a particular emphasis on ancient science and religion. Currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Southern California\, she is adjunct faculty at both St. Mary’s College of Maryland and West Virginia University. A native Californian\, Sarah holds an M.A. in Archaeology from the University of Sheffield\, England\, and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Southern California. Her current research involves ancient Roman medicine and the impact of pandemic events on Roman society. She is generally happiest when covered in dirt\, roaming archaeological sites somewhere in the Mediterranean region but particularly in Rome\, where she lived for six years. \nTuesday\, June 29\nDOCTORS\, DISEASES\, AND DEITIES: ILLNESS AND INJURY IN ANCIENT ROME WITH SARAH YEOMANS\nOnline\, via Zoom\nThis is part one of our four part collaboration with Context Travel\, as a special Members & Fellows series. These private events are included for free for all current Odd Salon Members\, Fellows. To join us: New members may join by purchasing either the four part series pass for $125\, or purchase tickets here to join the membership and reserve a spot for this seminar only for our standard annual membership cost of $100. \n\nABOUT CONTEXT TRAVEL: Context Learning is a cultural education provider\, connecting global scholars with lifelong learners. Founded in Rome in 2003\, Context started as a tour operator for travelers seeking off-the-beaten-path experiences in the world’s cultural capitals\, growing quickly to 20\,000 tours a year across 70+ destinations. After COVID-19 halted travel operations\, Context continued to expand\, launching live\, scholar-led seminars and courses presented online. What emerged was a thriving community of experts and learners keen to continue exploring\, growing\, and philosophizing\, regardless of their location. To date we’ve covered thousands of topics ranging from Tuscany to Timbuktu\, Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo\, Ancient Rome to Brexit. Context strives to be the cultural center for lifelong learning\, at-home\, on the ground\, and everywhere in between.   \nIf you are not already familiar with the many wonders of Context Travel\, we’d heartily encourage you to go forth and explore their virtual and real-world exploration offerings \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-context-travel-doctors-diseases-and-deities/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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