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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #62
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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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Paul Mendez
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, JUNE 12 AT 12PM PT WHEN PAUL MENDEZ JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS DEBUT NOVEL\, RAINBOW MILK\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84107018600\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84107018600#  or +12532158782\,\,84107018600#\nWebinar ID: 841 0701 8600\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kOLJG2ljP \nPraise for Rainbow Milk\n“The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for. An explosive work that reels from sex\, to sin\, to salvation all the while grappling with what it means to black\, gay\, British\, a son\, a father\, a lover\, even a man. A remarkable debut.” —Marlon James\, New York Times bestselling author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“When did you last read a novel about a young\, black\, gay\, Jehovah’s Witness man from Wolverhampton who flees his community to make his way in London as a prostitute? This might be a debut\, but Mendez is an exciting\, accomplished and daring storyteller with a great ear for dialogue. Graphic erotica alert! Don’t read this book if you like your fiction cosy and middle-of-the-road.” —Bernardine Evaristo\, Booker Prize–winning author of Girl\, Woman\, Other \n“A state of the nation novel…Extraordinary…Tthe voice of the character is so strong…Paul Mendez is now a significant new figure in the literary world…James Baldwin would be very proud of this book.” —BBC \nAbout Rainbow Milk\nAn essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice\, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah’s Witness upbringing. \nIn the 1950s\, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism\, Norman and his family are resilient\, but are all too aware that their family will need more than just hope to survive in their new country.\nAt the turn of the millennium\, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London\, escaping a broken immediate family\, a repressive religious community and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives he finds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity\, and turns to sex work\, music and art to create his own notions of love\, masculinity and spirituality.\nA wholly original novel as tender as it is visceral\, Rainbow Milk is a bold reckoning with race\, class\, sexuality\, freedom and religion across generations\, time and cultures. \nAbout Paul Mendez\nPaul Mendez was born and raised in the Black Country. He now lives in London and is studying for an M.A. in Black British Writing at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He has been a performing member of two theatre companies\, and worked as a voice actor\, appearing on audiobooks by Andrea Levy\, Paul Theroux and Ben Okri\, most recently recording Ian Wright’s A Life in Football for Hachette Audio. As a writer\, he has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement and the Brixton Review of Books. Rainbow Milk is his debut novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-paul-mendez/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Omnidawn Spring Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Publishing for their seasonal launch of new titles\, for which each author will be reading from their work. Be the first to own these new treasures: \n100 Words by Damon Potter & Truong Tran \nBoyish by Brody Parrish Craig (winner of the Omnidawn Chapbook contest) \nLife in a Field by Katie Peterson (winner of the Omnidawn Open Book contest) \nLuminaires by Kristin Keane (winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction contest) \nTropical Lung exi(s)t(s) by Roberto Harrison \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nAbout 100 Words by Damon Potter & Truong Tran \nWritten as a conversation engaged over the course of 100 words. It is an exchange of ideas\, dialogues\, burdens and ideals between someone Brown and someone White. It is an attempt by one to put the weight down and another’s willingness to pick it up. It is a private conversation made public. It is an exchange\, a negotiation\, discoveries. I did not know this about myself. You crossed the street or was it I? We walk and this weight\, we are still carrying it together. \nTruong Tran was born in Saigon\, Vietnam. He is the author of five previous collections of poetry\, The Book of Perceptions\, Placing the Accents\, Dust and Conscience\, Within The Margins\, and Four Letter Words. He also authored the children’s book\, Going Home Coming Home\, an artist monograph\, I Meant To Say Please Past the Sugar. His poems have been translated into Spanish\, French and Dutch. He is the recipient of The Poetry Center Prize\, The Fund For Poetry Grant\, The California Arts Council Grant and numerous San Francisco Arts Commission Grants. He lives in San Francisco and currently teaches at Mills College\, Oakland. \nDamon Potter lives and works in San Francisco. Poems have previously published in Elderly\, and Mirage #4/Period[ical]. \nTo have 100 Words sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout Boyish by Brody Parrish Craig \nBoyish engages what once thought impossible: a reconciliation of southern and queer identities\, of upbringing\, rebellion\, and revival. The coming to Jesus moments of looking back\, of liberation & reckoning. Each page exterior & interior revolutions. To carve space between. To cut-up the absence. To find oneself carried over graveled creekside into the first mouth’s babble. As much subconscious as embodied desire\, change holds within the white space and the formal play—language twisting the unspeakable alongside dense sonnets\, a thicket of warmth & dissonance that holds a mirror up to puddled overpass & river. The landscapes of city’s dystopia meeting the queer pastoral\, where conservation often means what must burn down. \nOriginally from Louisiana\, Brody Parrish Craig is a poet & tranarchist who currently lives in the Ozarks. They are an educator and creator of TWANG\, a regional creative project for TGNC folks in the South & Midwest US. BPC’s poetry has appeared in TYPO\, EOAGH\, Gigantic Sequins & Crab Fat Magazine\, amongst others. They can often be found by the creek. \nTo have Boyish sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout Life in a Field by Katie Peterson \nLife in a Field is a comedy about climate change. In the story\, a girl and a donkey become friends. Then\, they decide to marry time. A lyric fable\, Life in a Field intersperses slow-moving\, cinematic paragraphs in image-driven\, sensual prose with three folios of images by the photographer Young Suh. Introspection\, wish\, dream\, and memory take on the character of events. A narrative voice combines candor with distance\, attempting to find a path through our daily and familiar strife\, towards what remains of beauty and pleasure. In clear\, exacting sentences\, Life in a Field attempts\, against all evidence\, to reverse our accelerating destruction of the natural world\, reminding us of “the cold clarity we need to continue on this earth.” \nKatie Peterson is the author of four previous collections of poetry\, including A Piece of Good News. Her third collection\, The Accounts\, won the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas. She is Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California at Davis\, where she directs the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing. She lives in Berkeley with her husband\, Young Suh\, and their daughter Emily. \nTo have Life in a Field sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout Luminaires by Kristin Keane \nAgnes has been drifting away from herself. People look through her\, her husband doesn’t understand her and lately\, she’s begun losing the sensations in her body. When a tube of shoplifted lipstick awakens her back to life\, an impulse for stealing emerges that leads her to a court-ordered service at a camp for grieving children. Hopeful the time there will help make the stealing stop\, when the spirits of the campers’ parents realize Agnes can act as a conduit to their children through their things\, she has to navigate using her compulsion to either feed herself or to help the bereaved. Luminaries is about the things we take and about the things that are taken from us. It asks what it means to exist in lives filled with loss\, to reach for the things we hope balm us\, and the risks we’re willing to take to stymie yearning—both in our material lives and in the ones we pass through. \nKristin Keane‘s work has appeared with the New England Review\, The Normal School\, Electric Literature and elsewhere. She is a doctoral fellow at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco. More of her work can be found at thisisnotreallyhere.space. \nTo have Luminaires sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout Tropical Lung exi(s)t(s) by Roberto Harrison \nThese are writings and drawings from and to a new homeland\, a new homeland of Panamá that can be transmitted through the quantum martyrs beyond life and death\, and/or a new homeland of the Tecumseh Republic\, where technology grows to be necessary in understanding the ancient as well as then becoming erased and transcended by a now ever present electronic circle. It is a book brought close to the earth in its symbolic springs\, to the light filled mystery that began with countering disassociation and by repairing a devastating explosion of interior structures necessary to being a person in the most foundational ways. It is where the screen removes itself by song as we move toward kinship beyond color mark. \nRoberto Harrison‘s poetry books include Yaviza (Atelos\, 2017)\, Bridge of the World (Litmus Press\, 2017)\, culebra (Green Lantern Press\, 2016)\, bicycle (Noemi Press\, 2015)\, Counter Daemons (Litmus Press\, 2006)\, Os (subpress\, 2006)\, as well as many chapbooks. With Andrew Levy\, Roberto edited the poetry journal Crayon from 1997 to 2008. He is also the editor of Bronze Skull Press which has published over 20 chapbooks\, including the work of many Midwestern poets. Most recently Roberto served as a co-editor for the Resist Much/Obey Little : Inaugural Poems to the Resistance anthology. He was the Milwaukee Poet Laureate for 2017-2019 and is also a visual artist. He lives in Milwaukee with his wife the poet Brenda Cárdenas. \nTo have Tropical Lung exi(s)t(s) to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-omnidawn-spring-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Misa Sugiura\, Claire Kann\, and Jared Reck
DESCRIPTION:Three fabulous authors.\nThree amazing new summer reads.\nJoin us for The Marvelous Proclamations of Love and Other Doughnut Disasters Extravaganza and celebrate the launch of your new summer favorites.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nMisa Sugiura is the author of It’s Not Like It’s a Secret\, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award for YA Literature and This Time Will Be Different\, which was the HarperCollins Children’s Books Lead Read. Her new book\, Love and Other Natural Disasters is a delightfully disastrous queer YA rom-com \nWhen Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance\, a fake one wasn’t what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous\, glamorous\, and…heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous\, Nozomi is a willing volunteer. Because Nozomi has a master plan of her own: one to show Willow she’s better than a stand-in\, and turn their fauxmance into something real. But as the lies pile up\, it’s not long before Nozomi’s schemes take a turn toward disaster…and maybe a chance at love she didn’t plan for. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaire Kann is the author of Let’s Talk About Love and If It Makes You Happy. Her exuberant new book\, The Marvelous\, follows six teens locked together in a mansion\, contending for a life-changing cash prize in a competition run by a reclusive heiress. \nEveryone thinks they know Jewel Van Hanen. Heiress turned actress turned social media darling who created the massively popular video-sharing app\, Golden Rule. After mysteriously disappearing for a year\, Jewel makes her dramatic return with an announcement: she has chosen a few lucky Golden Rule users to spend an unforgettable weekend at her private estate. But once they arrive\, Jewel ingeniously flips the script: the guests are now players in an elaborate estate-wide game. And she’s tailored every challenge and obstacle to test whether they have what it takes to win. Told from the perspective of three players–Nicole: the new queen of Golden Rule; Luna: Jewel’s biggest fan; and Stella: a brilliant outsider–this novel will charm its way into your heart and keep you guessing how it all ends because money isn’t the only thing at stake. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJared Reck is the author of A Short History of the Girl Next Door His new book Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love an alternately funny and heartbreaking story about food trucks\, festivals\, and first loves. \nIt’s easy to look at high school senior Oscar Olsson and think: lost. He hates school\, struggles to read\, and wants nothing to do with college. But Oscar knows exactly what he wants and how to get it. Oscar and Farfar\, the Swedish grandfather who’s raised him\, run a food truck together\, and Oscar wants to finish school so he can focus on the food truck full-time. It’s easy to look at Mary Louise (Lou for short) Messinger and think: driven. AP everything\, valedictorian in her sights\, and Ivy league college aspirations. When Lou hijacks Oscar’s carefully crafted schedule of independent studies and time in the Culinary Lab\, Oscar is roped into helping Lou complete her over-ambitious\, resume-building service project-reducing food waste in their school. While Lou stands to gain her Girl Scout Gold Award\, Oscar will be faced with uneaten school apples and countless hours with a girl he can’t stand. With the finish line in sight\, a relationship he never expected\, and festival season about to begin\, the unthinkable happens\, and Oscar’s future is anything but certain.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/misa-sugiura-claire-kann-and-jared-reck/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Martha Cooley and Anne Germanacos
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, June 14 at 6pm PT when Martha Cooley discusses her latest novel\, Buy Me Love\, with Anne Germanacos on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84120825850\n\nPraise for Buy Me Love\n“Buy Me Love is a terrific novel about the eternal confusions of money and our beloved notions of free will—as they play out for one woman with a lottery ticket. It has a superbly believable romance\, crooked family histories\, and a sneaky double plot. Readers drawn in by its sharpness and originality will find themselves richly rewarded by its striking turns.”\n—Joan Silber\, author of Improvement\n\n“Money—its seductive force\, the love of it\, its weird immaterial nature\, the good it can do\, and the risk that having it could obliterate who you are—is everyone’s suave adversary in Martha Cooley’s penetrating novel. She has drawn each of these characters with striking uniqueness. They could all use a bit more money. But it’s the possibility of suddenly having a lot more that fills the story with such danger and hope. If you got everything you wanted\, would you still want it? And would you still be you?”\n—Salvatore Scibona\, author of The Volunteer\n\nAbout Buy Me Love\nA novel about chance\, trust\, and a lottery ticket.\nDescribed by Publishers Weekly as Cooley’s “sharp latest”\, “Cooley has a sure hand in probing the intersection of artistic ambition and money. This hopeful take is sure to move readers.”\n\nIn Brooklyn\, New York\, in 2005\, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after\, she realizes she’s won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket\, she tells no one but her alcoholic brother—a talented composer whose girlfriend has died in a terrorist attack abroad—about her preposterous good luck.\n\nAs the clock ticks\, Ellen caroms from incredulity to giddiness to dread as she tries to reckon with the potential consequences of her win. She becomes unexpectedly involved with a man and boy she’s met at her local gym. While she grapples with the burden of secret-keeping and the tug of a new intimacy\, a Brooklyn street artist named Blair Talpa is contending with her own challenges: a missing brother\, an urge to make art that will “derange orbits\,” and a lack of money.\n\nEn route to redeem the lottery ticket\, Ellen finds her prospects entwining by chance with Blair’s—which allows Ellen to reimagine luck’s relation to loss\, and the reader to revel in surprise.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-martha-cooley-and-anne-germanacos-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Martha Cooley and Anne Germanacos
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, JUNE 14 AT 6PM PT WHEN MARTHA COOLEY DISCUSSES HER LATEST NOVEL\, BUY ME LOVE\, WITH ANNE GERMANACOS ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84120825850\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84120825850#  or +12532158782\,\,84120825850#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcGy7MX0NI \nPraise for Buy Me Love\nBuy Me Love is a terrific novel about the eternal confusions of money and our beloved notions of free will—as they play out for one woman with a lottery ticket. It has a superbly believable romance\, crooked family histories\, and a sneaky double plot. Readers drawn in by its sharpness and originality will find themselves richly rewarded by its striking turns.\n—Joan Silber\, author of Improvement \nMoney—its seductive force\, the love of it\, its weird immaterial nature\, the good it can do\, and the risk that having it could obliterate who you are—is everyone’s suave adversary in Martha Cooley’s penetrating novel. She has drawn each of these characters with striking uniqueness. They could all use a bit more money. But it’s the possibility of suddenly having a lot more that fills the story with such danger and hope. If you got everything you wanted\, would you still want it? And would you still be you?\n—Salvatore Scibona\, author of The Volunteer \nAbout Buy Me Love\nA novel about chance\, trust\, and a lottery ticket. \nDescribed by Publishers Weekly as Cooley’s “sharp latest”\, “Cooley has a sure hand in probing the intersection of artistic ambition and money. This hopeful take is sure to move readers.” \nIn Brooklyn\, New York\, in 2005\, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after\, she realizes she’s won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket\, she tells no one but her alcoholic brother—a talented composer whose girlfriend has died in a terrorist attack abroad—about her preposterous good luck. \nAs the clock ticks\, Ellen caroms from incredulity to giddiness to dread as she tries to reckon with the potential consequences of her win. She becomes unexpectedly involved with a man and boy she’s met at her local gym. While she grapples with the burden of secret-keeping and the tug of a new intimacy\, a Brooklyn street artist named Blair Talpa is contending with her own challenges: a missing brother\, an urge to make art that will “derange orbits\,” and a lack of money. \nEn route to redeem the lottery ticket\, Ellen finds her prospects entwining by chance with Blair’s—which allows Ellen to reimagine luck’s relation to loss\, and the reader to revel in surprise.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-martha-cooley-and-anne-germanacos/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Lin Manuel-Miranda\, Quiara Alegría Hudes & Jeremy McCarter / In the Heights: Finding Home
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to co-present Lin Manuel-Miranda\, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Jeremy McCarter for the virtual launch of In the Heights: Finding Home. \nJoin Miranda\, Hudes\, and McCarter for what is sure to be an unforgettable conversation on creativity\, community\, and finding home. This is your chance to hear directly from the creative team behind the timeless story of how one neighborhood—Washington Heights—can speak to the world. \nPlease note:\n> Tickets are available here.\n> Each ticket includes admission to this exclusive event\, a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home (normally $40) and complimentary postage anywhere in the US.\n> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n> Please contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nAbout the book \nIn 2008\, In the Heights\, a new musical from up-and-coming young artists\, electrified Broadway. The show’s vibrant mix of Latin music and hip-hop captured life in Washington Heights\, the Latino neighborhood in upper Manhattan. It won four Tony Awards and became an international hit\, delighting audiences around the world. For the film version\, director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) brought the story home\, filming its spectacular dance numbers on location in Washington Heights. That’s where Usnavi\, Nina\, and their neighbors chase their dreams and ask a universal question: Where do I belong? \nIn the Heights: Finding Home reunites Miranda with Jeremy McCarter\, co-author of Hamilton: The Revolution\, and Quiara Alegría Hudes\, the Pulitzer Prize–winning librettist of the Broadway musical and screenwriter of the film. They do more than trace the making of an unlikely Broadway smash and a major motion picture: They give readers an intimate look at the decades-long creative life of In the Heights. \nLike Hamilton: The Revolution\, the book offers untold stories\, perceptive essays\, and the lyrics to Miranda’s songs—complete with his funny\, heartfelt annotations. It also features newly commissioned portraits and never-before-seen photos from backstage\, the movie set\, and productions around the world. \nThis is the story of characters who search for a home—and the artists who created one. \nPlease note:\n> Tickets are available here.\n> Each ticket includes admission to this exclusive event\, a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home (normally $40) and complimentary postage anywhere in the US.\n> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n> Please contact events@booksmith.com with any questions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-lin-manuel-miranda-quiara-alegria-hudes-jeremy-mccarter-in-the-heights-finding-home/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210615T170000
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Lin-Manuel Miranda\, In the Heights
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: IN THE HEIGHTS Virtual Book Launch! \nPurchase tickets for this special event here \nLights up on Washington Heights! Before Hamilton became a global phenomenon\, before Lin-Manuel Miranda became a household name\, a little show called In the Heights shook up Broadway with its hip-hop and salsa soundtrack and big\, bilingual heart. In the new book In the Heights: Finding Home\, Lin-Manuel Miranda\, Quiara Alegría Hudes\, and Jeremy McCarter tell the story of the show’s humble beginnings\, from rehearsals in a bookstore basement to the Broadway smash (and soon-to-be feature film!) that created an unbreakable community and a new kind of family for everyone involved. \nJoin Miranda\, Hudes\, and McCarter for a very special In the Heights Virtual Book Launch on Tuesday\, June 15 from 5:00 to 6:00pm PT on Zoom. Sure to be an unforgettable conversation on creativity\, community\, and finding home\, this is your chance to hear directly from the creative team behind the timeless story of how one neighborhood—Washington Heights—can speak to the world. Your ticket includes admission to this exclusive event\, a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home ($40 retail price)\, as well as sales tax\, shipping\, and handling (if applicable). \nDon’t miss this special event!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-lin-manuel-miranda-in-the-heights/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Curtis Sittenfeld with Jane and Kelly McGonigal
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, June 15 at 6pm PT when Curtis Sittenfeld joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her novel\, Rodham\, with Jane and Kelly McGonigal on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83437997954\n\nPraise for Rodham\n“[Curtis] Sittenfeld’s Rodham descends like an avenging angel. Here\, in the pages of this alternate history about Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is the story not of “What Happened” but of “What Could Have Happened.” This isn’t just fiction as fantasy; it’s fiction as therapy.”—The Washington Post\n\n“[A] moving\, morally suggestive\, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any other in recent memory about the aims and limits of fiction . . . By fanning out alternate narratives . . . [Rodham] asks us to imagine a different world. . . . And from there\, what a short —excruciating\, hopeful—leap it is to: Everything could be different.”—NPR\n\n“Sittenfeld at her best.”—The Wall Street Journal\n\nAbout Rodham\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York Post\n\nIn 1971\, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech\, she’s attending Yale Law School\, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome\, charismatic southerner and fellow law student\, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other\, the two find a profound intellectual\, emotional\, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced.\n\nIn the real world\, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas\, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once\, as we all know\, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton.\n\nBut in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction\, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage\, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades\, she blazes her own trail—one that unfolds in public as well as in private\, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton\, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life.\n\nBrilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events\, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness\, moral ambivalence\, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power\, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men\, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel.\n\nAbout Curtis Sittenfeld\nCurtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Prep\, The Man of My Dreams\, American Wife\, Sisterland\, and Eligible\, and the story collection You Think It\, I’ll Say It\, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Washington Post Magazine\, Esquire\, and The Best American Short Stories\, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Time\, and Vanity Fair\, and on public radio’s This American Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-curtis-sittenfeld-with-jane-and-kelly-mcgonigal/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Curtis Sittenfeld
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, JUNE 15 AT 6PM PT WHEN CURTIS SITTENFELD JOINS US TO CELEBRATE THE PAPERBACK RELEASE OF HER NOVEL\, RODHAM\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83437997954\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83437997954#  or +12532158782\,\,83437997954#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kxAl7a9qk \nPraise for Rodham\n“[Curtis] Sittenfeld’s Rodham descends like an avenging angel. Here\, in the pages of this alternate history about Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is the story not of “What Happened” but of “What Could Have Happened.” This isn’t just fiction as fantasy; it’s fiction as therapy.”—The Washington Post \n“[A] moving\, morally suggestive\, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any other in recent memory about the aims and limits of fiction . . . By fanning out alternate narratives . . . [Rodham] asks us to imagine a different world. . . . And from there\, what a short —excruciating\, hopeful—leap it is to: Everything could be different.”—NPR \n“Sittenfeld at her best.”—The Wall Street Journal \nAbout Rodham\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York Post \nIn 1971\, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech\, she’s attending Yale Law School\, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome\, charismatic southerner and fellow law student\, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other\, the two find a profound intellectual\, emotional\, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced. \nIn the real world\, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas\, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once\, as we all know\, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton. \nBut in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction\, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage\, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades\, she blazes her own trail—one that unfolds in public as well as in private\, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton\, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life. \nBrilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events\, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness\, moral ambivalence\, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power\, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men\, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel. \nAbout Curtis Sittenfeld\nCurtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Prep\, The Man of My Dreams\, American Wife\, Sisterland\, and Eligible\, and the story collection You Think It\, I’ll Say It\, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Washington Post Magazine\, Esquire\, and The Best American Short Stories\, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Time\, and Vanity Fair\, and on public radio’s This American Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-curtis-sittenfeld/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Matt Bell with Cecil Castelluci and Brian Evenson
DESCRIPTION:Matt Bell with Cecil Castelluci and Brian Evenson \ncelebrating the launch of Matt Bell’s new novel \nAppleseed: a novel \npublished by Harper Collins \nFrom Young Lions Fiction Award–finalist Matt Bell\, a breakout book that explores climate change\, manifest destiny\, humanity’s unchecked exploitation of natural resources\, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple. \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to pre-order/purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nIn eighteenth-century Ohio\, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier\, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image\, planning for a future of settlement and civilization\, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested\, fractured and broken—and possibly healed. \nFifty years from now\, in the second half of the twenty-first century\, climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science\, one company now owns all the world’s resources. But a growing resistance is working to redistribute both land and power—and in a pivotal moment for the future of humanity\, one of the company’s original founders will return to headquarters\, intending to destroy what he helped build. \nA thousand years in the future\, North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacier—and in a daring and seemingly impossible quest\, sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization. \nHugely ambitious in scope and theme\, Appleseed is the breakout novel from a writer “as self-assured as he is audacious” (NPR) who “may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of ideas” (Jess Walter). Part speculative epic\, part tech thriller\, part reinvented fairy tale\, Appleseed is an unforgettable meditation on climate change; corporate\, civic\, and familial responsibility; manifest destiny; and the myths and legends that sustain us all. \nMatt Bell is the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall\, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II\, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Fairy Tale Review\, American Short Fiction\, and many other publications. A native of Michigan\, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. \nCecil Castellucci is the award winning and New York Times Bestselling author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Shade\, The Changing Girl\, Boy Proof\, The Plain Janes\, Soupy Leaves Home\, The Year of the Beasts\, Tin Star\, Female Furies and Odd Duck. In 2015 she co-authored Star Wars Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. She is currently writing Batgirl for DC Comics. She was the lead singer in the Canadian indy pop quartet Nerdy Girl. \nBrian Evenson is the author of over a dozen works of fiction. He has received three O. Henry Prizes for his fiction. The Song for the Unraveling of the World\, won a Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, and Speculative Fiction and the Balcones Fiction Prize. His most recent book is titled  The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-bell-with-cecil-castelluci-and-brian-evenson/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Queer Mystery Writers Panel
DESCRIPTION:Five acclaimed queer mystery writers\, Michael Nava (moderator)\, Cheryl A. Head\, Greg Herren\, Dharma Kelleher and P.J. Vernon discuss the mystery genre and its special attraction to queer writers. Presented by the San Francisco Public Library and the NorCal Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-mystery-writers-panel/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210616T210000
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SUMMARY:Claire Boyles In conversation with Kirstin Valdez Quade
DESCRIPTION:Claire Boyles is joined in conversation by Kirstin Valdez Quade to discuss her debut story collection\, Site Fidelity (W.W. Norton). \n“If we are to survive\, even the next several decades\, we need to feminize the myth of the American West…Claire Boyle’s stories do just that\, the tenacious\, unsinkable women who inhabit them no longer content to sit back and let powerful men of industry make us all extinct. For anyone who loves and grieves the West\, who isn’t afraid to open their eyes and see her distress\, these beautifully forged stories are as essential as water.” — Pam Houston\, author of Deep Creek \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Site Fidelity\nSet in the western sagebrush steppe\, Site Fidelity is a vivid\, intimate\, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet. \nFirmly rooted in the modern American West\, Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual\, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her chicken flock from the government during a bird flu epidemic. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying to protect a breeding group of endangered Gunnison sage grouse. \nIn lean\, lyrical prose\, Claire Boyles evokes the bleakness and beauty of our threatened western landscapes. Spanning the decades from the 1970s to a plausible near future\, this knockout debut introduces unforgettable characters who must confront the challenges of caregiving and loss alongside the very practical impacts of fracking\, water rights law\, and other agricultural policies. Site Fidelity is a vivid\, intimate\, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet. \nAbout the participants\nClaire Boyles is a writer\, teacher\, and former sustainable farmer. She received her MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University. Her fiction has appeared in Boulevard and the Kenyon Review. She lives in Loveland\, Colorado. \nKirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She is the recipient of a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation\, the Rome Prize\, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, New York Times\, The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Prize Stories\, and elsewhere. Originally from New Mexico\, she now lives in New Jersey and teaches at Princeton University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-boyles-in-conversation-with-kirstin-valdez-quade/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:David & Margaret Talbot: By the Light of Burning Dreams
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a unique Zoom Event: \nDavid & Margaret Talbot \nBy the Light of Burning Dreams:  The Second American Revolution \nHosted by Greg Bridges \nNew York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century- brought to life through seven radical episodes that offer urgent lessons for today. \nThe political landscape of the 1960’s and ’70’s was probably the most tumultuous in this country’s history: the fight for civil rights\, women’s liberation\, Black Power\, and the struggle to end the Vietnam War. In many ways\, this second American revolution was a belated fulfillment of the betrayed promises of the first — working to extend the full protections of the Bill of Rights to non-white\, non-male\, non-elite Americans excluded by the nation’s founders. \nBased on exclusive interviews\, original documents\, and archival research\, By the Light of Burning Dreams explores critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of iconoclastic leaders of the twentieth century radical movement: Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers; Heather Booth and the Jane Collective\, the first underground feminist abortion clinic\, Vietnam peace activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda\, Cesar Chavez\, Dolores Huerta\, and the United Farm Workers; Craig Rodwell and the gay pride movement; Dennis Banks\, Madonna Thunder Hawk\, Russel Means and the warriors of Wounded Knee; and more.  Margaret and David Talbot reveal the dramatic epiphanies that galvanized these modern revolutionaries and created unexpected connections and alliances between individual movements across race\, class and gender divides. \nDAVID TALBOT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books. \nMARGARET TALBOT has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2004. \nGREG BRIDGES is a radio dj who can be heard over KCSM and KPFA. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/david-talbot-margaret-talbot-by-the-light-of-burning-bridges-tickets-151915694933
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-margaret-talbot-by-the-light-of-burning-dreams/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Krys Malcolm Belc and Alex McElroy
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 17 at 6pm PT when Krys Malcolm Belc discusses his book\, The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood\, with Alex McElroy on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87079245281\n\nPraise for The Natural Mother of the Child\n“A formally daring queer memoir about parenthood and inheritance and the way our bodies resist the binaries of the state; The Natural Mother of the Child is brilliant.“ —Carmen Maria Machado\, author of In the Dream House\n\n“All memoirs offer a study of a body through time\, but my favorites make this fact transparent\, refuse to separate the self from its tangible form. This memoir is an embodied story—of non-binary parenthood\, of true partnership and the challenge of navigating systems which were not designed with us in mind\, but on which our most intimate decisions sometimes depend. Above all\, this is a love story\, one which tracks the evolution of self through the relationships that define it. I loved this portrait of a queer family’s making\, its proof that the ways we love and are loved create us.“ —Melissa Febos\, author of Abandon Me & Girlhood\n\n“This is a gorgeous memoir about families\, raising children\, and figuring out how to live in a world where intimate matters are both inscribed by individual history and entangled with the workings of the State. A work of solace and communion\, this book is destined to be a major addition to the literature of parenthood and selfhood\, one that will be read for years to come.” —Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State\n\n“Krys Malcolm Belc’s lyrical memoir brings much-needed nuance to all these old conversations about baby-making\, families\, parenting\, and gender. Belc’s narrative of his conscious creation of self and family is generous\, resonant\, and powerful—I will be pressing this lovely book into the hands of all the parents and parents-to-be I know!” —Andrea Lawlor\, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl\n\nAbout The Natural Mother of the Child\nKrys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving\, birthing\, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity.\n\nKrys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary\, transmasculine parent\, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet\, when his partner\, Anna\, adopted Samson\, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.”\n\nBy considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of “motherhood” don’t fully align with Belc’s own experience\, The Natural Mother of the Child journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family. With this visual memoir in essays\, Belc has created a new kind of life record\, one that engages directly with the documentation often thought to constitute a record of one’s life—childhood photos\, birth certificates—and addresses his deep ambivalence about the “before” and “after” so prevalent in trans stories\, which feels apart from his own experience.\n\nThe Natural Mother of the Child is the story of a person moving past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative\, with prose that delights in the intimate dailyness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-krys-malcolm-belc-and-alex-mcelroy-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Laura Raicovich
DESCRIPTION:Laura Raicovich discusses her new book \nCULTURE STRIKE: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest \npublished by Verso Books \nA leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm and how they can be reimagined. \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 soon!) \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon!) \n————- \nIn an age of protest\, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests against museum funding (like the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler family money) and boards (such as the Whitney appointing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders)—to say nothing of demonstrations over exhibitions and artworks—have roiled cultural institutions across the world\, from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to the Akron Art Museum. Meanwhile never have there been more calls for museums to work for social change. \nIn this book\, Laura Raicovich shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding capitalist values. And she suggests how museums can be reinvented to serve better\, public ends. \nLaura Raicovich was President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum. During her tenure\, she was a champion of socially engaged art practices that address the most pressing social\, political\, and ecological issues of our times. She has defined her career with artist-driven projects and programs. She is also the author of At the Lightning Field and A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties. \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-raicovich/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Booksmith and Mother Jones present: Rainesford Stauffer with Becca Andrews / An Ordinary Age
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Mother Jones present an evening of conversation between Rainesford Stauffer\, author of the debut An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional\, and Mother Jones reporter Becca Andrews. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order An Ordinary Age here. We are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nFeatured on Good Morning America \nEsquire‘s Book Club Pick \n“A meticulous cartography of how outer forces shape young people’s inner lives.” —Esquire\, Best Books of Spring 2021 \nIn conversation with young adults and experts alike\, journalist Rainesford Stauffer explores how the incessant pursuit of a “best life” has put extraordinary pressure on young adults today\, across our personal and professional lives—and how ordinary\, meaningful experiences may instead be the foundation of a fulfilled and contented life. \nYoung adulthood: the time of our lives when\, theoretically\, anything can happen\, and the pressure is on to make sure everything does. Social media has long been the scapegoat for a generation of unhappy young people\, but perhaps the forces working beneath us—wage stagnation\, student debt\, perfectionism\, and inflated costs of living—have a larger\, more detrimental impact on the world we post to our feeds. \nAn Ordinary Age puts young adults at the center as Rainesford Stauffer examines our obsessive need to live and post our #bestlife\, and the culture that has defined that life on narrow\, and often unattainable\, terms. From the now required slate of (often unpaid) internships\, to the loneliness epidemic\, to the stress of “finding yourself” through school\, work\, and hobbies—the world is demanding more of young people these days than ever before. And worse\, it’s leaving little room for our generation to ask the big questions about who they want to be\, and what makes a life feel meaningful. \nPerhaps we’re losing sight of the things that fulfill us: strong relationships\, real roots in a community\, and the ability to question how we want our lives to look and feel\, even when that’s different from what we see on the ‘Gram. Stauffer makes the case that many of our most formative young adult moments are the ordinary ones: finding our people and sticking with them\, learning to care for ourselves on our own terms\, and figuring out who we are when the other stuff—the GPAs\, job titles\, the filters—fall away. \nAbout the authors\nRainesford Stauffer is a freelance writer\, Kentuckian\, and author of An Ordinary Age\, published May 2021 from Harper Perennial. You can find her on Twitter: @Rainesford. \nBecca Andrews is a reporter at Mother Jones. A Southerner\, she most often writes about the Southeast\, gender\, and culture. Before joining Mother Jones as an editorial fellow\, she wrote for newspapers in Tennessee. Her work has also appeared in Slate\, Marie Claire UK\, and USA Today. Her first book\, No Choice\, on the dwindling access to abortion in the United States\, is forthcoming from Hachette’s Public Affairs imprint. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-booksmith-and-mother-jones-present-rainesford-stauffer-with-becca-andrews-an-ordinary-age/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210617T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210617T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Krys Malcolm Belc and Alex McElroy
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, JUNE 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN KRYS MALCOLM BELC DISCUSSES HIS BOOK\, THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD: A MEMOIR OF NONBINARY PARENTHOOD\, WITH ALEX MCELROY ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87079245281\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87079245281#  or +13462487799\,\,87079245281#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcNQA6b476 \nPraise for The Natural Mother of the Child\n”A formally daring queer memoir about parenthood and inheritance and the way our bodies resist the binaries of the state; The Natural Mother of the Child is brilliant.“ —Carmen Maria Machado\, author of In the Dream House \n”All memoirs offer a study of a body through time\, but my favorites make this fact transparent\, refuse to separate the self from its tangible form. This memoir is an embodied story—of non-binary parenthood\, of true partnership and the challenge of navigating systems which were not designed with us in mind\, but on which our most intimate decisions sometimes depend. Above all\, this is a love story\, one which tracks the evolution of self through the relationships that define it. I loved this portrait of a queer family’s making\, its proof that the ways we love and are loved create us.“ —Melissa Febos\, author of Abandon Me & Girlhood \n”This is a gorgeous memoir about families\, raising children\, and figuring out how to live in a world where intimate matters are both inscribed by individual history and entangled with the workings of the State. A work of solace and communion\, this book is destined to be a major addition to the literature of parenthood and selfhood\, one that will be read for years to come.“ —Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State \n”Krys Malcolm Belc’s lyrical memoir brings much-needed nuance to all these old conversations about baby-making\, families\, parenting\, and gender. Belc’s narrative of his conscious creation of self and family is generous\, resonant\, and powerful—I will be pressing this lovely book into the hands of all the parents and parents-to-be I know!“ —Andrea Lawlor\, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl \nAbout The Natural Mother of the Child\nKrys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving\, birthing\, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity. \nKrys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary\, transmasculine parent\, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet\, when his partner\, Anna\, adopted Samson\, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.” \nBy considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of “motherhood” don’t fully align with Belc’s own experience\, The Natural Mother of the Child journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family. With this visual memoir in essays\, Belc has created a new kind of life record\, one that engages directly with the documentation often thought to constitute a record of one’s life—childhood photos\, birth certificates—and addresses his deep ambivalence about the “before” and “after” so prevalent in trans stories\, which feels apart from his own experience. \nThe Natural Mother of the Child is the story of a person moving past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative\, with prose that delights in the intimate dailiness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-krys-malcolm-belc-and-alex-mcelroy/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210617T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
CREATED:20210601T001020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210601T001020Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman in conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Schulman discusses her new book Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York\, 1987-1993.  Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members\, Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism. In just six years\, ACT UP\, New York\, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races\, genders\, sexualities and backgrounds\, changed the world. Their activism\, in its complex and intersectional power\, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. Let the Record Show can be purchased from Dog Eared Books Castro at this link: https://www.shopdogearedbookscastro.com/book/9780374185138.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman-in-conversation-with-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210617T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210617T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
CREATED:20210425T002728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210425T002728Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #36
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\nThis month’s features: TBA\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly… OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# 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+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-36/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210618T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210618T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
CREATED:20210413T185514Z
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SUMMARY:Cal Flyn
DESCRIPTION:Cal Flyn joins us from the UK for a virtual event to celebrate the publication of her new book\, Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape (Viking Books). \n“Bracing\, eye-opening\, comprehensive\, and essential\, Islands of Abandonment is an energizing and important work. It affirms that nature is resilient\, given half a chance\, and should motivate all of us to try harder\, even for the habitats that seem broken or hopeless.”\n—Jeff VanderMeer\, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation and the Southern Reach Trilogy \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Islands of Abandonment\nSome of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula’s narrow DMZ. \nCal Flyn\, an investigative journalist\, exceptional nature writer\, and promising new literary voice visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that due to war\, disaster\, disease\, or economic decay\, have been abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is an “island” of teeming new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists. \nIslands of Abandonment is a tour through these new ecosystems\, in all their glory\, as sites of unexpected environmental significance\, where the natural world has reasserted its wild power and promise. And while it doesn’t let us off the hook for addressing environmental degradation and climate change\, it is a case that hope is far from lost\, and it is ultimately a story of redemption: the most polluted spots on Earth can be rehabilitated through ecological processes and\, in fact\, they already are. \nAbout Cal Flyn\nCal Flyn is an author\, an investigative journalist\, and a MacDowell fellow from the Highlands of Scotland. She has worked as a reporter for TheSunday Times and The Telegraph and has contributed to publications including Granta\, The Guardian\, The Times\,The Observer\, and others. Her first book\, Thicker Than Water\, was one of The Times’s best books of 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cal-flyn/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210618T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
CREATED:20210531T235535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210531T235535Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Dogpark Collective":MAILTO:dogparkcollective@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210618T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
CREATED:20210425T002616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210425T002616Z
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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-63/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210619T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210619T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
CREATED:20210613T023245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210613T023245Z
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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cwc-speaker-series-member-book-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="California Writers Club - Berkeley":MAILTO:berkeley.cwc@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210620T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210620T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
CREATED:20210425T010714Z
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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-ocean-city-lights/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210622T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210622T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
CREATED:20210611T180506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T180506Z
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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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-stacey-abrams-with-cari-champion/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210622T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210622T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111027
CREATED:20210516T221528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210516T221528Z
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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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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-guncle-by-steven-rowley-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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