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SUMMARY:Ken Layne Creator of Desert Oracle on the hidden histories of the Mojave
DESCRIPTION:Ken Layne joins us from Joshua Tree to celebrate the publication of Desert Oracle Volume 1 (MCD/FSG)\, a collection of writing from his self-published periodical. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Desert Oracle\nFor the past five years\, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical\, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique\, its canary-yellow-covered\, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next\, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show\, a podcast\, a live performance. Now\, for the first time—and including both classic and new\, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. \nStraight out of Joshua Tree\, California\, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales\, singing sand dunes\, sagebrush trails\, artists and aliens\, authors and oddballs\, ghost towns and modern legends\, musicians and mystics\, scorpions and saguaros\, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner\, around a campfire\, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. \nFrom journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy\, and musings on everything from desert flora\, rumored cryptid sightings\, and other paranormal phenomena\, Ken Layne’s Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single\, essential volume. \nAbout Ken Layne\nKen Layne is a professional high-speed typist\, a broadcaster\, and the editor/publisher of Desert Oracle\, the pocket-size quarterly field guide to the strange and intriguing American deserts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ken-layne-creator-of-desert-oracle-on-the-hidden-histories-of-the-mojave/
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SUMMARY:SF Poet Laureate: Poem Jam - California Fire & Water
DESCRIPTION:This monthly poetry reading features poet and editor Molly Fisk and writers in her acclaimed new book\, California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology. To help Californians face uncertainty and express their personal responses to the climate crisis\, Molly Fisk sent poet-teachers from California Poets in the Schools throughout the state to teach five-session workshops on the climate crisis. California Fire & Water gathers work from these students\, as well as from adult poets. The authors hope to prompt discussion and action on behalf of the planet and to provide solace for those suffering losses. Kim Shuck\, the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco\, will introduce the program. \nZoom Registration
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-poet-laureate-poem-jam-california-fire-water-2/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
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SUMMARY:SF Poet Laureate: Poem Jam - California Fire & Water
DESCRIPTION:This monthly poetry reading features poet and editor Molly Fisk and other writers in her acclaimed new book\, California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology. To help Californians face uncertainty and express their personal responses to the climate crisis\, Molly Fisk sent poet-teachers from California Poets in schools throughout the state to teach five-session workshops on the climate crisis. California Fire & Water gathers work from these students\, as well as adult poets. The authors hope to prompt discussion and action on behalf of the planet and provide solace for those suffering losses. Kim Shuck\, the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco\, will introduce the program. \nZoom Registration
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-poet-laureate-poem-jam-california-fire-water/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #5: Gifts for the Hard-To-Shop-For
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, December 10\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on gifts for the hard-to-shop-for on your list in this last episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82851929183. \nThis is our fifth and lat recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/12: Kids’ books and graphic novels\n1219: Adult nonfiction\n12/3: Adult Fiction\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82851929183\n\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-5-gifts-for-the-hard-to-shop-for-2/
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SUMMARY:Author Scott James Discussing TRIAL BY FIRE
DESCRIPTION:Author Scott James Discussing TRIAL BY FIRE | Wed. 12/9 @ 7 PM PST | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Wednesday\, December 9\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for an online discussion with author Scott James in conversation with journalist and author Frances Dinkelspiel discussing his Scott’s new book\, TRIAL BY FIRE: A DEVASTATING TRAGEDY\, 100 LIVES LOST\, AND A 15-YEAR SEARCH FOR TRUTH. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85496974190. \n(Order your copy of TRIAL BY FIRE at https://bit.ly/GGPTrialByFire.) \nTRIAL BY FIRE reopens the case of The Station nightclub fire that killed 100 when the rock band Great White ignited fireworks inside a small roadside club in tiny Rhode Island. It’s one of the deadliest fires in American history\, and it became of the nation’s deadliest criminal cases. But there were never any trials. \nAuthor Scott James spent ten years investigating what happened\, and discovered there was much more to the disaster than what the public had been led to believe. \nHere’s what’s been said about TRIAL BY FIRE so far… \nIn a starred review\, Publishers Weekly called it “Gripping… essential reading for true crime fans.” \nAnd New York Times bestselling author Raj Patel said\, quote\, “This is journalism as it is meant to be. Scott James does for Rhode Island what Truman Capote did for Kansas.” \nScott James is a veteran journalist and the author of Trial by Fire. Since 2009 Scott’s reporting has appeared in The New York Times\, and he is the recipient of three Emmy Awards for his work in television news. He’s also the author of two bestselling novels\, SoMa and The Sower. \nFrances Dinkelspiel is an award-winning veteran journalist\, co-founder of the news organization Berkeleyside and author of two books\, Towers of Gold and the New York Times bestseller Tangled Vines.
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SUMMARY:JENNA WORTHAM & KIMBERLY DREW
DESCRIPTION:JENNA WORTHAM & KIMBERLY DREW\nin conversation with Ashley C. Ford\nWednesday\, December 9\, 2020\n6:00pm Pacific Time\n\nTICKETS \n\n\nWhat does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together a new collection of work\, entitled Black Futures—images\, photos\, essays\, memes\, dialogues\, recipes\, tweets\, poetry\, and more—to tell the story of the radical\, imaginative\, provocative\, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. \nJenna Wortham is the co-host of The New York Times arts and culture podcast Still Processing\, and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Wortham was previously a tech writer for The New York Times\, and now writes on a multitude of subjects ranging between arts and culture\, technology\, and social media\, with a focus on the contributions of Black\, queer women. Wortham is also a sound healer\, reiki practitioner\, herbalist\, and community care worker oriented toward healing justice and liberation\, and is working on a book about the body and dissociation for Penguin Press. \nKimberly Drew is a writer\, curator\, and activist. Drew received her B.A. from Smith College in Art History and African-American Studies. She first experienced the art world as an intern in the Director’s Office of The Studio Museum in Harlem. Her time there inspired her to start the Tumblr blog Black Contemporary Art\, sparking her interest in social media. Drew’s writing has appeared in Vogue\, Glamour\, W\, Teen Vogue\, and Lenny Letter\, and she has executed Instagram takeovers for Prada\, The White House\, and Instagram. Drew recently left her role as the Social Media Manager at The Met. \nAshley C. Ford is a writer\, editor\, and critic in Brooklyn by way of Indiana. Ford hosts The Chronicles of Now podcast\, co-hosts The HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio\, and is the former host of seasons one & three of Mastercard’s Fortune Favors The Bold\, as well as the video interview series PROFILE by BuzzFeed News\, and Brooklyn-based news & culture TV show\, 112BK. Her memoir\, Somebody’s Daughter\, will be published in June 2021. \nPre-order Black Futures today from Marcus Books\, the nation’s oldest Black-owned independent bookstore\, celebrating its 60th year. All Bookshop orders ship directly to you. If you are interested in arranging in-person pickup please call Marcus Books at (510) 652-2344 or visit in Oakland\, CA at 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
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SUMMARY:Poetry & the Senses Fellows’ Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Arts Research Center in celebrating the 2020 Poetry Fellows with a year-end reading featuring: Menat Allah El Attma\, Nathalie Khankan\, Gracia Mwamba\, Rusty Morrison\, Beth Piatote\, Jared Robinson\, Alex Saum-Pascual\, and Jenif(f)er Tamayo. This event is part of ARC’s Poetry and the Senses initiative generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation. \nARC’s Poetry fellows have spent the past 11 months in conversation\, production\, feedback\, support\, and critique; they will be sharing work produced during their fellowship. This remarkable cohort has weathered pandemic\, political and social upheaval\, and personal crises\, and bravely continued to be present\, hold space for their peers\, and navigate their relationship to the work. When we think of what we want to carry forward or with us in an emergency\, their voices are at the top of the list. \nPoetry and the Senses creates meaningful opportunities for engagement\, research\, and collaboration. As a think tank for the arts at UC Berkeley\, ARC acts as a facilitator and connector between the campus and the many flourishing regional poetry communities. This two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) explores the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis\, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care\, mindfulness\, and resistance. \nThe theme for 2020 was\, aptly\, emergency. Motivating questions have included\, what kinds of poetic modes of address might be recruited in times of global catastrophe? How does poetry help us think through and within crisis? “Emergency” implies urgency\, sudden harm\, life-threatening violence\, and extreme circumstances\, but embedded within it is the word “emergence;” suggesting rebirth and new beginnings. How can we understand moments of emergency as catalysts for renewal\, as ruptures that signal massive—if painful—change? \n  \n\nFellows\n\n\n\n\nMenat Allah El Attma\nUndergraduate Student Fellow\nMenat Allah El Attma is an Egyptian Muslim woman\, educator\, writer\, and visual artist. Menat graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English literature and is pursuing her Master’s and credential at USC Rossier School of Education. She is a logophile and linguaphile\, working to affect a similar love for words/languages in her students through the practice and art of storytelling. She believes art is in the telling of the story as much as the story itself. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nGracia Mwamba\nUndergraduate Student Fellow\nGracia Mwamba is a visual artist\, composer and writer from DRCongo\, by way of South Africa. Currently in her final year of a BA in Art Practice\, Gracia works interdisciplinarily to communicate through her work. Upon graduation\, she hopes to pursue credentials to become a licensed Art Therapist and strong advocate for art as an accessible means of healing and social change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJared Robinson\nGraduate Student Fellow\nJared Robinson is from Indianapolis\, IN. He is a poet and scholar in the UC Berkeley English department. In his scholarship\, he interrogates the relationship between the transatlantic slave trade and Enlightenment philosophy through careful attention to early African-American literature and its reception. In his poetry\, he attempts an understanding of everything else. He does not care for this California weather. He is glad to greet you. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJenif(f)er Tamayo\nGraduate Student Fellow\nJenif(f)er Tamayo is a queer\, migrant\, formerly undocumented poet\, essayist\, and performer. Her poetry collections include [Red Missed Aches] (Switchback\, 2011)\, YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017) and her latest publication\, TO KILL THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT (Green Lantern Press\, 2018). Currently\, JT lives and works on Ohlone and Patwin lands and is pursuing her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Her research explores how contemporary Black and Indigenous poets use vocal practices to counternarrate histories of colonial violence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathalie Khankan\nCommunity Fellow\nNathalie Khankan is the author of quiet orient riot (Fall 2020)\, winner of Omnidawn’s 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize\, selected by Dawn Lundy Martin. Her work appears in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, The Volta\, and Crab Creek Review. Straddling Danish\, Finnish\, Syrian and Palestinian homes and heirlooms\, Nathalie currently lives in San Francisco. She teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRusty Morrison\nCommunity Fellow\nRusty Morrison is the co-founder and co-publisher of Omnidawn (www.omnidawn.com) since 2001. Her five books include After Urgency (won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize) & the true keeps calm biding its story (won Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize\, James Laughlin Award\, N.California Book Award\, & DiCastagnola Award from PSA). Her recent book: Beyond the Chainlink (Ahsahta; finalist for the NCIB Award & NCB Award) She teaches in MFA programs as a visiting poet\, workshops through Omnidawn and elsewhere. Offering private consultations. www.rustymorrison.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Piatote\nFaculty Fellow\nBeth Piatote is author of two books: a mixed-genre collection\, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019); and a scholarly monograph\, Domestic Subjects: Gender\, Citizenship\, and Law in Native American Literature (Yale 2013)\, as well as numerous essays and short stories stories in journals and anthologies. Her recent work\, The Beadworkers\, has been long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. She is currently associate professor of Native American Studies\, where she specializes in Native American literature and law; Nez Perce language and literature; Indigenous Language Revitalization; and creative writing. She earned a PhD from Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Saum-Pascual\nFaculty Fellow\nAlex Saum-Pascual is a digital artist\, poet and professor. She is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she teaches Contemporary Spanish Literature and Culture (20th and 21st Centuries) and Electronic Literature (Digital Humanities). She is also part of the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media and the board of directors of the Electronic Literature Organization. Her academic work on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world has been published in Spain\, Mexico and the United States. Her digital artwork and poetry has been exhibited in galleries and art festivals in the United States\, Canada\, Mexico\, Spain\, Norway and the UK. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Engaging the Senses Foundation.
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Paige Peterson (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Belvedere and Tiburon are located just across the Bay from San Francisco\, but they seem to exist in another time. In Growing Up Belvedere-Tiburon\, Paige Peterson’s memories of her magical childhood and the archival photographs that trace the history of these small\, lovingly protected communities combine to transport readers to a real-life Brigadoon. \nPaige is an American artist\, author\, and photojournalist who has written extensively about the Middle East. As a journalist\, she has contributed to Marin Magazine\, New York Social Diary\, and the National Council on U.S. Arab Relations. As an illustrator\, she has collaborated on A Christmas Carol\, adapted by Jesse Kornbluth\, and Blackie: The Horse Who Stood Still\, which she co-authored with Christopher Cerf. She and her two grown children live in New York.  She splits her time between New York City and Belvedere\, California. \nJesse Kornbluth writes books and plays and edits a cultural concierge site.  As a magazine journalist\, he has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and New York\, and a contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. As an author\, his books include Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken\, Pre-Pop Warhol\, and two novels\, Married Sex and JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story. His play about Henri Matisse\, The Color of Light\, has been produced in California and New York. On the Web\, he co-founded Bookreporter.com. From 1997 to 2003\, he was Editorial Director of America Online. In 2004\, he launched HeadButler.com.
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SUMMARY:Community Roundtable: Christmas Holiday
DESCRIPTION:Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is to keep the community united during the time apart through our online\, roundtable discussions. We will be hosting online roundtables every-other-week with different topics to engage with the CHSA community. \n\n\nHere is our upcoming schedule! Feel free to join all topics* of interest to you: \n\nDecember 9th-Christmas Holiday. A hearty discussion about the Christmas holiday with the CHSA community and your favorite holiday memories.\nJanuary 13th-Miss Chinatown. A discussion about memories of the Miss Chinatown pageant in preparation for the Chinese New Year celebration.\n\nInterested in joining? Click here to register! \nPlease note: this is an interactive event. We encourage everyone to check that their microphones and cameras are working so that they can engage in the discussion. Space is limited to encourage participation among attendees. \n*Topics and discussion dates are subject to change depending on current events and interest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-roundtable-christmas-holiday/
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SUMMARY:Author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in conversation with CAConrad
DESCRIPTION:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reads from her new book\, The Freezer Door\, described by Maggie Nelson as “a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone” and by Oprah Magazine as an “underline-every-sentence compendium of queer desire.” After the reading\, Sycamore will be joined in conversation by poet and essayist CAConrad\, with audience Q&A to follow. \n  \nZoom Registration  \nYouTube Live \n  \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels\, two nonfiction titles and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her new book\, The Freezer Door\, will be published by Semiotext(e) in November 2020. \nSycamore’s most recent novel\, Sketchtasy (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018)\, was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. Her memoir\, The End of San Francisco (City Lights 2013)\, won a Lambda Literary Award. And her most recent anthology\, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity\, Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform (AK Press 2012)\, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. \nSycamore’s novels include So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights 2008) and Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003). She is the editor of four additional nonfiction anthologies\, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal 2007)\, That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2004; 2008)\, Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004; Routledge) and Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about Their Clients (Haworth 2000; Routledge)\, which now also appears in Italian (Effepi Libri 2007). \nCAConrad is the author of Amanda Paradise (Wave Books\, 2021). Their book While Standing in Line for Death won a 2018 Lambda Book Award. They also received a 2019 Creative Capital grant as well as a Pew Fellowship in the Arts Award\, the Believer Magazine Book Award and the Gil Ott Book Award. They regularly teach at Columbia University in New York City\, and at Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Please view their books\, essays\, recordings and the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films) online at http://bit.ly/88CAConrad. \nConnect \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore – Website | Instagram | Twitter \nCAConrad – Website | Instagram | Twitter \n–
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SUMMARY:Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club | Tue. Dec. 8 @ 7 PM PST\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Tuesday\, December 8\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman’s new novel\, ANXIOUS PEOPLE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87874523125. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpAnxious\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AnxiousAB. \nDescription\n\nInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller \nA People Book of the Week\, Book of the Month Club selection\, #1 Indie Next Pick\, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping\, PopSugar\, The Washington Post\, New York Post\, Shondaland\, CNN\, and more! \n“[A] quirky\, big-hearted novel… Wry\, wise\, and often laugh-out-loud funny\, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming\, poignant novel about a crime that never took place\, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air\, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. \nLooking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation\, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything\, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face\, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent\, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom\, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. \nEach of them carries a lifetime of grievances\, hurts\, secrets\, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. \nRich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness)\, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship\, forgiveness\, and hope—the things that save us\, even in the most anxious times. \nAbout the Author\n\nFredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove\, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry\, Britt-Marie Was Here\, Beartown\, Us Against You\, and two novellas\, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime\, as well as one work of nonfiction\, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. His latest novel\, Anxious People\, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in Stockholm\, Sweden\, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook or Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anxious-people-by-frederik-backman-ggp-online-book-club-3/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:he Best Women's Travel Writing\, Volume 12 with Editor Lavinia Spalding (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Travelers’ Tales announces publication of the newest collection in the award-winning series that invites you to travel along with intrepid female nomads as they wander the globe. The essays in The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World\, edited by Lavinia Spalding and illustrated by Colette Hannahan\, transport readers to secret corners of place and emotion\, on adventures far-ranging and vivid.  Joining Lavinia for the Volume 12 book launch are contributors: Eva Holland\, whose essay is about survival in the Canadian arctic; Sivani Babu who wrote about returning to her grandparents’ home\, a book publishing print house in Rajahmundry\, India; Alia Volz who traveled to Cuba to settle a debt; and Naomi Melati Bishop\, born in Indonesia\, whose story is about travel on stolen tickets. Introduction by Travelers’ Tales Executive Editor\, Larry Habegger. \nLavinia Spalding has edited five previous editions of The Best Women’s Travel Writing. She is the author of Writing Away and the co-author of With a Measure of Grace and This Immeasurable Place\, and she introduced the e-book edition of Edith Wharton’s classic travelogue\, A Motor-Flight Through France. Lavinia’s work appears in such publications as Tin House\, Longreads\, Yoga Journal\, Sunset\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and The Guardian\, and has been widely anthologized. Her AFAR essay “Playing by Heart” received a Lowell Thomas Gold Award and was recognized by The Best American Travel Writing. She is also a public speaker and teacher. When she isn’t leading international writing workshops\, she lives with her family in New Orleans and on Cape Cod. Find more at laviniaspalding.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/he-best-womens-travel-writing-volume-12-with-editor-lavinia-spalding-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, December 8\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman’s new novel\, ANXIOUS PEOPLE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87874523125. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpAnxious\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AnxiousAB. \nDescription\n\nInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller \nA People Book of the Week\, Book of the Month Club selection\, #1 Indie Next Pick\, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping\, PopSugar\, The Washington Post\, New York Post\, Shondaland\, CNN\, and more! \n“[A] quirky\, big-hearted novel… Wry\, wise\, and often laugh-out-loud funny\, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming\, poignant novel about a crime that never took place\, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air\, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. \nLooking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation\, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything\, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face\, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent\, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom\, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. \nEach of them carries a lifetime of grievances\, hurts\, secrets\, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. \nRich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness)\, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship\, forgiveness\, and hope—the things that save us\, even in the most anxious times. \nAbout the Author\n\nFredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove\, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry\, Britt-Marie Was Here\, Beartown\, Us Against You\, and two novellas\, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime\, as well as one work of nonfiction\, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. His latest novel\, Anxious People\, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in Stockholm\, Sweden\, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook or Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anxious-people-by-frederik-backman-ggp-online-book-club-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nerd Nite Kansai #18
DESCRIPTION:Nerd Nite Kansai #18\nWe’re back online for Nerd Nite Kansai #18 on December 18th.\nTune in at 18:00 for three new and fantastic talks! \nYou can RSVP from the form below or join us on our YouTube live stream\nhttps://forms.gle/JxLabJAfjTAoZqdJA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nerd-nite-kansai-18/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T172320Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Zeyn Joukhadar (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty Names of Night is a remarkably moving and lyrical novel that follows three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. \nZeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Map of Salt and Stars\, which has been translated into twenty languages\, was a 2018 Middle East Book Award winner in Youth Literature\, a 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. He is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in KINK: Stories (edited by RO Kwon & Garth Greenwell)\, Salon\, The Paris Review\, Shondaland\, [PANK]\, and elsewhere\, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Joukhadar has received fellowships from the Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Program\, the Arab American National Museum\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. \nCatherine Hernandez is a proud queer woman of colour\, radical mother\, theatre practitioner\, award-winning author\, and the Artistic Director of b current performing arts. Catherine’s first full-length fiction\, Scarborough\, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished manuscript and was shortlisted for various awards. Her one-woman show\, The Femme Playlist\, premiered at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 2014 as part of the afterRock Play Series co-produced by b current\, Eventual Ashes and Sulong Theatre. She has released two children’s books\, M is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book and I Promise\, and her second novel\, Crosshairs\, is coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-zeyn-joukhadar-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: Alexander McCall Smith\, How to Raise an Elephant
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith will share How to Raise an Elephant\, the next book in his perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series\, which sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. \nTickets for this event are available for purchase on Eventbrite: click here! \nPlease note the morning start time\, as the author will be joining us from Scotland! \n“An escape from life’s woes as well as a suggestion for how to make the whole deal more palatable—fragility\, fruit cake\, and all.” —The Boston Globe \nHOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT is the next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child\, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say? \nALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and of a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world. He lives in Scotland. \nTICKETING INFORMATION: \nTickets include entry to the virtual event plus a hardcover copy of HOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT. Please note that your book will become available after publication date on November 24th. \n\nThere are two ticket options: choose IN-STORE PICKUP or have it SHIPPED to you (either in the U.S. or Internationally for an extra fee).\n\n\nUpon purchase\, you will be registered for the event via the email address you provide in your payment information in Eventbrite\, and will receive access information there from Crowdcast (our virtual events platform). Please make sure you are allowing /receiving email from Crowdcast! Do not share your login information with others; duplicate and/or unrecognized attendees will be removed from the event.\n\n\nOnce the book has published\, please allow 1-3 days to process each order; shipping times vary from 3-10 business days (more for international orders). We will provide tracking information via email.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ticketed-event-alexander-mccall-smith-how-to-raise-an-elephant-2/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: Alexander McCall Smith\, How to Raise an Elephant
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith will share How to Raise an Elephant\, the next book in his perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series\, which sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. \nTickets for this event are available for purchase on Eventbrite: click here! \nPlease note the morning start time\, as the author will be joining us from Scotland! \n“An escape from life’s woes as well as a suggestion for how to make the whole deal more palatable—fragility\, fruit cake\, and all.” —The Boston Globe \nHOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT is the next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child\, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say? \nALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and of a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world. He lives in Scotland. \nTICKETING INFORMATION: \nTickets include entry to the virtual event plus a hardcover copy of HOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT. Please note that your book will become available after publication date on November 24th. \n\nThere are two ticket options: choose IN-STORE PICKUP or have it SHIPPED to you (either in the U.S. or Internationally for an extra fee).\n\n\nUpon purchase\, you will be registered for the event via the email address you provide in your payment information in Eventbrite\, and will receive access information there from Crowdcast (our virtual events platform). Please make sure you are allowing /receiving email from Crowdcast! Do not share your login information with others; duplicate and/or unrecognized attendees will be removed from the event.\n\n\nOnce the book has published\, please allow 1-3 days to process each order; shipping times vary from 3-10 business days (more for international orders). We will provide tracking information via email.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ticketed-event-alexander-mccall-smith-how-to-raise-an-elephant/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Online Performance
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon presents a special online performance \n\n\nSaturday\, December 5\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering here\n\n\n\nin partnership with our friends at The Booksmith and The Bindery\, currently offering curbside pickup and in-person browsing\n\n\n\nfeaturing\n \nDouglas Stuart \n(Shuggie Bain; Found Wanting; The Englishman) \nDouglas Stuart is a Scottish – American author. His debut novel\, Shuggie Bain\, was published in 2020 and is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is a finalist for the National Book Award. Stuart wrote Shuggie Bain over a ten year period and is currently at work on his second novel\, Loch Awe. His short stories\, Found Wanting\, and The Englishman\, were published in The New Yorker magazine. His essay\, Poverty\, Anxiety\, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature was published by Lit Hub. Born in Glasgow\, Scotland\, he has an MA from the Royal College of Art in London and since 2000 he has lived and worked in New York City. \nNafissa Thompson-Spires \n(Heads of the Colored People: Stories) \nNafissa Thompson-Spires earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s “The Organist\,” The Paris Review Daily\, Dissent\, Buzzfeed Books\, The White Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal\, and other publications. Her short story “Heads of the Colored People…” won StoryQuarterly’s 2016 Fiction Prize\, judged by Mat Johnson. Her writing has received support from Callaloo\, Tin House\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois. Her first book\, Heads of the Colored People\, was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award\, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Award\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize\, and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. \nMeg Elison \n(Find Layla; The Book of Etta; Book of the Unnamed Midwife) \nMeg Elison is a science fiction and horror author\, as well as a feminist essayist and cultural critic. Her work has been on the Tiptree long list\, nominated for the Audie Award\, and won the Philip K. Dick Award. She has also been published in McSweeney’s\, Shimmer\, Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Catapult\, Terraform\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. \nSarah Ladipo Manyika \n(Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun; In Dependence) \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, Zimbabwe\, and England. Sarah is a novelist\, short story writer\, essayist\, and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut novel\, In Dependence\, is an international bestseller while her second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun\, has been translated into a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris to Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama. Sarah is host of Conversations Across the Diaspora and currently serves as Board Director for the women’s writing residency\, Hedgebrook. \nwith music by \nRachel Lightning Rose\n \nRock vocalist Rachel “Lightning” Rose is best known for her performances with Jefferson Starship and George Clinton\, and is an alumni of the world-famous Berklee College of Music. Her powerful vocals and surrealistic songwriting make for an immersive and chilling experience unlike anything else in popular music. \n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-online-performance/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:presents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, December 5\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegistration for our Zoom gathering will open soon\n\n\n–— \nin partnership with our friends at  \nThe Booksmith and The Bindery\, \ncurrently offering curbside pickup and in-person browsing \n— \nfeaturing\n \nDouglas Stuart \n(Shuggie Bain; Found Wanting; The Englishman) \nDouglas Stuart is a Scottish – American author. His debut novel\, Shuggie Bain\, was published in 2020 and is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is a finalist for the National Book Award. Stuart wrote Shuggie Bain over a ten year period and is currently at work on his second novel\, Loch Awe. His short stories\, Found Wanting\, and The Englishman\, were published in The New Yorker magazine. His essay\, Poverty\, Anxiety\, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature was published by Lit Hub. Born in Glasgow\, Scotland\, he has an MA from the Royal College of Art in London and since 2000 he has lived and worked in New York City. \nNafissa Thompson-Spires \n(Heads of the Colored People: Stories) \nNafissa Thompson-Spires earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s “The Organist\,” The Paris Review Daily\, Dissent\, Buzzfeed Books\, The White Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal\, and other publications. Her short story “Heads of the Colored People…” won StoryQuarterly’s 2016 Fiction Prize\, judged by Mat Johnson. Her writing has received support from Callaloo\, Tin House\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois. Her first book\, Heads of the Colored People\, was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award\, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Award\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize\, and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. \n  \nSarah Ladipo Manyika \n(Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun; In Dependence) \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, Zimbabwe\, and England. Sarah is a novelist\, short story writer\, essayist\, and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut novel\, In Dependence\, is an international bestseller while her second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun\, has been translated into a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris to Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama. Sarah is host of Conversations Across the Diaspora and currently serves as Board Director for the women’s writing residency\, Hedgebrook. \nMeg Elison \n(Find Layla; The Book of Etta; Book of the Unnamed Midwife) \nMeg Elison is a science fiction and horror author\, as well as a feminist essayist and cultural critic. Her work has been on the Tiptree long list\, nominated for the Audie Award\, and won the Philip K. Dick Award. She has also been published in McSweeney’s\, Shimmer\, Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Catapult\, Terraform\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. \nand more to be announced soon \n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-6/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Chris Rainier (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Chris Rainier’s Mask presents a striking collection of rare masks steeped in ancient tradition\, captured through the lens of one of the world’s most celebrated documentary photographers. \nChris is a documentary photographer and National Geographic explorer who is highly respected for his documentation of endangered cultures and traditional languages around the globe. He is a fellow at the Royal Geographic Society in London. Prior to Mask\, he published five books documenting traditional cultures around the globe\, from the Stone Age tribes of New Guinea to the ancient tradition of tattoo body marking. Rainier is the director of the Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation\, a global program focused on legally preserving biodiversity and cultural heritage. Rainier has photographed on all seven continents\, focusing on the preservation of the planet’s last wildernesses and traditional cultures. \nPhil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker\, teacher and editor\, lecturer and travel leader\, and storyteller and TV host. His fascination with the art\, literature\, and history of culture has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh\, Iceland to the Amazon\, in a worldwide search for what the ancients called the “soul of the world.” With more than 35 books and 15 scriptwriting credits to his name\, the “omnipresent influence of myth in modern life” is a thread that runs through all of his work. His books include Stoking the Creative Fires\, Once and Future Myths\, The Art of Pilgrimage\, The Hero’s Journey\, Wordcatcher\, The Painted Word\, The Oldest Story in the World\, The Book of Roads\, and The Accidental Aphorist. \n  \nBelow\, please find links to purchase their books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-chris-rainier-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T130000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Class: Kerrin Meis - Exploring Eastern Turkey: Art\, Culture\, and Politics (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Travelers to Turkey (actual and virtual) miss the real Turkey. In this class\, participants will (virtually) tour through: Ankara\, home of the award-winning Archaeological Museum; the Hittite sites of Yazilkaya and Bozakoy with their history-revealing sculpture; Trabzon\, home of the Hagia Sophia Church with its priceless Byzantine frescoes and the precariously perched Monastery of Sumela; Erzurum’s distinctive Mosque and Madrasa; the ghostly remains of the church of Ani and monasteries hugging the Armenian border; the mind-blowing palace of Ishak Pasha with its conglomeration of architectural styles; Akdamar on Lake Van\, home of the 10th-century Cathedral of the Holy Cross with astonishing and amusing relief sculpture; Mardin\, the golden city on Syria’s border—an architecture student’s paradise; captivating Diyarbakir\, the unofficial capital of Kurdistan\, with its Roman walls\, intriguing bazaar\, and fascinating Ulu Mosque; Nemrut Dag\, home of the monolithic sculptures and tomb of the megalomaniac ruler Antiochus I; Gobekli Tepe\, the most important archaeological site extant with finds from 11000 BC; Gazientep with the world’s largest and most spectacular collection of Roman mosaics from the sunken city of Zeugma. The “problems” with the Kurds and the Armenian genocide will be addressed. \nHayirli yolculuklar! \nKerrin Meis taught art history at SFSU for ten years and has led study tours in Europe. Her Book Passage classes have been favorites for years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-class-kerrin-meis-exploring-eastern-turkey-art-culture-and-politics-via-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:National Kidney Foundation - 32nd Annual Author Luncheon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:The National Kidney Foundation’s Authors Luncheon is the largest literary event of its kind in the Bay Area\, allowing those who are passionate about literature to join with NKF in the effort to transform kidney care and improve the lives of millions through education\, advocacy\, and research\, \nFor 32 years the Authors Luncheon has welcomed nearly 1\,000 Bay Area guests to celebrate renowned\, bestselling authors. Doing our part to keep our community safe in the face of COVID-19\,on December 5\, 2020 we are taking the event VIRTUAL; connecting with our guests where they are—from the comfort of their favorite reading nooks all over the GLOBE.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-kidney-foundation-32nd-annual-author-luncheon-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T193000
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SUMMARY:Words Out Loud Spoken Word
DESCRIPTION:Susana H. Case and Martha Addy Young read from their poetry\, Evening includes literary trivia quiz and open mic. \nSusana H. Case is the author of seven books of poetry. Dead Shark on the N Train\, from Broadstone Books (2020)\, is her newest. It won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite. Drugstore Blue\, from Five Oaks Press\, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). She is also the author of five chapbooks\, two of which won poetry prizes. Her poems appear widely in magazines and anthologies. Dr. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City. See more at susanahcase.com.  \nMartha Addy Young is the recipient of two Individual Artist Grants from the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a Poet Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She was the runner-up for the Bellevue Literary Review’s poetry prize\, and a finalist for the Larry Neal Writer’s Award and the Crosswinds Poetry Award. Her poem Dusk in Dupont Circle was recently featured in Poetry Daily. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland. \nTo Join the Zoom Meeting \nZoom Link. Meeting ID: 876 4770 1054 \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87647701054  \nMeeting ID: 876 4770 1054
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T213000
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SUMMARY:Short and Sweet: Prose Poems\, Flash Fiction and Mini-Memoirs with Alison Luterman
DESCRIPTION:“If brevity is the soul of wit\, then prose poems and flash memoirs are manna for the spirit! They are great ways to cut through to the heart of things; the space limitation helps push writers to leap-frog over thickets of exposition to land on the just-enough resonance of a clear thought or image\,” says instructor Alison Luterman. \nIn this online class we’ll look at examples of short pieces from practitioners such as Lydia Davis and Russell Edson\, and we’ll explore how to incorporate techniques like free association and juxtaposition into our work. Then we’ll write\, share\, and write some more. \nAlison says\, “By the end of class\, students will be conversant in a variety of short forms\, and will have a fistful of their own short pieces to link together or savor individually.” \nAll levels welcome; come prepared to jump in and splash around. \nDecember 03 – December 17\n3 Thursdays\, (PST) 7:00pm – 9:30pm\n\n\n$153.45 for members \n$165 for non-members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/short-and-sweet-prose-poems-flash-fiction-and-mini-memoirs-with-alison-luterman/
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T210000
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #4: Adult Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, December 3\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult fiction in this fourth episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031 \nThis is our fourth recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/12: Kids’ books and graphic novels\n1219: Adult nonfiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031\n\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-4-adult-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T210000
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SUMMARY:Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Elena Passarello A conversation about animals\, wonders\, and the exuberance of the natural world
DESCRIPTION:Poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Elena Passarello in conversation about Aimee’s new book\, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, and Other Astonishments (Milkweed Editions). \n“Sometimes we need teachers who remind us how to be flabbergasted and gobsmacked and flummoxed and enswooned by the wonders of this earth. How to be in stupefied and devotional love to the wonders of this earth. How to be in love with this\, our beloved earth. Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders is as good and generous a teacher as one could ever ask for. This book enraptures with its own astonishments and reveries while showing us how to be enraptured\, how to revere. Which\, again\, is showing us how to be in love. I can think of nothing more important. Or wonderful.” — Ross Gay\, author of The Book of Delights \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout World of Wonders\nAs a child\, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution\, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona\, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted–no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape–she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. \n“What the peacock can do\,” she tells us\, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile\, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely\, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. \nWarm\, lyrical\, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura\, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy. \nAbout the authors\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poems\, including\, most recently\, Oceanic\, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Other awards for her writing include fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Mississippi Arts Council\, and MacDowell. Her writing appears in Poetry\, the New York Times Magazine\, ESPN\, and Tin House. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. \nElena Passarello is an actor\, a writer\, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books\, Let Me Clear My Throat\, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance\, pop culture\, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American\, Slate\, Creative Nonfiction\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications\, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. Passarello lives in Corvallis\, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aimee-nezhukumatathil-elena-passarello-a-conversation-about-animals-wonders-and-the-exuberance-of-the-natural-world/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays | Adult Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #4: Adult Fiction | Thu. Dec. 3 at 7 PM on Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Thursday\, December 3\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult fiction in this fourth episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031 \nThis is our fourth recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/12: Kids’ books and graphic novels\n1219: Adult nonfiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031\n\nUnited States\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Great Good Place for Books \n6120 La Salle Ave\, Oakland\, CA 94611 \n(510) 339-8210 • books@ggpbooks.com3
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-adult-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T180000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nTo order the books\, click on the titles: Beowulf\, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley\, and The Future of Another Timeline\, by Annalee Newitz. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n– About Beowulf translated by Maria Dahvana Headley – \nNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley\, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English\, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine\, justice is rarely served\, and dragons live among us. \nA man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender\, genre\, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment\, powerful men seeking to become more powerful\, and one woman seeking justice for her child\, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf\, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. \nMaria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author and editor. Her novels include Magonia\, Aerie\, and Queen of Kings\, and she has also written a memoir\, The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard\, she is the author of The End of the Sentence\, and with Neil Gaiman\, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson\, Nebula\, and World Fantasy Awards\, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle\, where the first draft of The Mere Wife was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho\, and now lives in Brooklyn. \n– About The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz – \n1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert\, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend’s abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat\, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. \n2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future\, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she’s found a way to make an edit that actually sticks\, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. \nTess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline–a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past\, present\, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity\, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? \nAnnalee Newitz is an American journalist\, editor\, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT\, and have written for Popular Science\, The New Yorker\, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015\, and then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel\, Autonomous\, won a Lambda award. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-maria-dahvana-headley-beowulf-and-annalee-newitz-the-future-of-another-timeline/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T200000
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SUMMARY:Derek McCormack and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:A Semiotexte Books Double Bill with two razor-sharp writers of fiction \n       \ncelebrating the the release of two new novels \nCastle Faggot – by Derek McCormack – Afterword by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley \nA dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland. \nand \nThe Freezer Door – by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore \nA meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity. \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nabout CASTLE FAGGOT \nCastle Faggot is Derek McCormack’s darkest and most delicious book yet\, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland\, a playland for gay men\, and Castle Faggot\, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log\, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays—some were killed\, some killed themselves\, all ended up as décor. \nThe book includes a map of Faggotland\, a photobook of the castle\, the instructions for a castle-shaped dollhouse\, and the novelization of a TV puppet show about Count Choc-o-log and his friends—reminiscent of the classic stop-motion special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\, but even gayer and more grotesque. As scatological as Sade but with a Hanna-Barbera vibe\, Castle Faggot transmutes McCormack’s love of the lurid and the childlike\, of funhouses and sickhouses\, into something furiously funny: as Edmund White says\, “the mystery of objects\, the lyricism of neglected lives\, the menace and nostalgia of the past—these are all ingredients in this weird and beautiful parallel universe.” \nwhat has been said about CASTLE FAGGOT \n\n“In Derek McCormack’s home province\, farm boys with growing pains enjoy a little-known meal called bed-supper—a hearty bowl of sweet breakfast cereal enjoyed as a midnight snack. Here McCormack has composed a peculiarly salacious bed-supper\, where the long secret sweet-tooth of the Marquis de Sade glints as it sinks into the dirtiest of dishes. This useful book will more than stay your appetite until breakfast—Castle Faggot is also a manual of redecoration\, a musical\, a puppet show\, a theory of cosmetics\, a work of poetics\, and a glorious celebration of the French decadence.” – Lisa Robertson\, author of The Baudelaire Fractal \n\nabout THE FREEZER DOOR \nWhen you turn the music off\, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness\, that means turn the music back on\, right? When you still feel the sadness\, even with the music\, that means there’s something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn’t sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be.—The Freezer Door \nThe Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle\, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams\, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture\, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life. \nFerocious and tender\, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity. \nWhat has been said about THE FREEZER DOOR \n\n“I really love Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The Freezer Door. In a happy paradox common to great literature\, it’s a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone. I so admire its appetite to get down and dirty\, to wield non sequitur with grace and power\, to ponder the past while sticking with the present\, to quest unceasingly. I stand deeply inspired and instructed by its great wit\, candor\, inventiveness\, and majesty.” -Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n\nabout the authors: \nDerek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells\, Haunted Hillbilly\,  and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e)). (www.derekmccormack.com) \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014\, and her previous book\, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity\, Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. She lives in Seattle. (mattildabernsteinsycamore.com) \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/derek-mccormack-and-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Travel Stories of Wonder and Change with Laura Deutsch\, April Orcutt\, and Anne Sigmon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to the virtual launch of Travel Stories of Wonder and Change\, a new anthology put out by the Bay Area Travel Writers! Readers will include the three winners of the Georgia Hesse Prize for travel writing: Laura Deutsch\, reading “The Rhythms of Arezzo;” April Orcutt\, reading “Tibetan Bargain with a Twist;” and Anne Sigmon\, reading “Sierra Point.” The pieces read aloud during the virtual launch will take listeners abroad—to Turkey\, Italy and Tibet—and to other parts of the US—to Yosemite\, Oahu and the elephant-seal rookery near Hearst Castle. \n“Like travel itself\, these essays made me gasp\, laugh — and\, yes\, cry. Evocative and beautifuly crafted\, they transcend genre …”\n—James M. Tabor\, New York Times bestselling author of Blind Descent and The Deep Zone \n“[These writers] have brought us the world at a time when so many of us have been forced to stay home. These stories take us to places we might not be able to reach ourselves\, show us our shared humanity and evoke the unpredictable wonder of travel.”\n—Michael Shapiro\, author of The Creative Spark and A Sense of Place \n“The time to travel is now — in our armchairs\, at least\, with this heartfelt new collection of travel essays … Full of wit and charm\, these mini memoirs make us yearn to travel again\, to find deeper meaning in all our adventures to come.”\n—Novella Carpenter\, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/travel-stories-of-wonder-and-change-with-laura-deutsch-april-orcutt-and-anne-sigmon-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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