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SUMMARY:Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros
DESCRIPTION:The Mesa Refuge and Point Reyes Books present Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros\, who will discuss their new book\, The Atlas of Disappearing Places (New Press). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Atlas of Disappearing Places\nOur planet is in peril. Seas are rising\, oceans are acidifying\, ice is melting\, coasts are flooding\, species are dying\, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire circumstances\, most of us don’t have a clear sense of how the interconnected crises in our ocean are affecting the climate system\, food webs\, coastal cities\, and biodiversity\, and which solutions can help us co-create a better future. \nThrough a rich combination of place-based storytelling\, clear explanations of climate science and policy\, and beautifully rendered maps that use a unique ink-on-dried-seaweed technique\, The Atlas of Disappearing Places depicts twenty locations across the globe\, from Shanghai and Antarctica to Houston and the Cook Islands. The authors describe four climate change impacts–changing chemistry\, warming waters\, strengthening storms\, and rising seas–using the metaphor of the ocean as a body to draw parallels between natural systems and human systems. \nEach chapter paints a portrait of an existential threat in a particular place\, detailing what will be lost if we do not take bold action now. Weaving together contemporary stories and speculative “future histories” for each place\, this work considers both the serious consequences if we continue to pursue business as usual\, and what we can do–from government policies to grassroots activism–to write a different\, more hopeful story. \nA beautiful work of art and an indispensable resource to learn more about the devastating consequences of the climate crisis–as well as possibilities for individual and collective action–The Atlas of Disappearing Places will engage and inspire readers on the most pressing issue of our time. \nAbout the authors\nChristina Conklin is an artist\, writer\, and researcher whose work investigates the intersection of natural systems and belief systems\, often using the ocean as both site and metaphor. Her essays\, exhibitions\, and installations consider our cultural responses to the intersecting ecological and social crises of our time. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and has exhibited internationally. She is currently working with thought leaders and activists around the world to help communities create regenerative cultural systems. She lives with her husband and two children in Half Moon Bay\, California. \nMarina Psaros is a sustainability expert and has led climate action programs across public\, private\, and nonprofit organizations for over a decade. She is a co-author (with Christina Conklin) of The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis (The New Press) and one of the creators of The King Tides Project\, an international community science and education initiative. An amateur cartographer and ocean advocate\, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christina-conklin-and-marina-psaros/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210727T180000
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: The Frozen North
DESCRIPTION:Journey to the (virtual) Arctic Circle\, and a look at the science\, culture\, and history of exploration at the top of the world. The Arctic has long fascinated people from around the world. Learn how myth compares with reality through the experiences of an Arctic scientist and traveler. \nFor most people\, the Arctic is a distant realm\, full of unlikely creatures such as the narwhal as well as fur-clad hunters equally at home on ice floes as on open tundra. Nowadays\, the Arctic also makes news for the rapid loss of sea ice and for the increasing development of resources and transportation routes. The changing Arctic affects the world’s weather and climate. Mineral development can disrupt traditional ways of life. China\, Russia\, and the United States vie for influence and opportunity in the far north. How do these stories intersect? \nHenry P. Huntington earned his bachelor’s degree in English at Princeton University and his master’s and a doctorate in Polar Studies at the University of Cambridge. He lives in Eagle River\, Alaska\, where he works as an independent researcher and on Arctic Ocean conservation for Ocean Conservancy. Huntington’s research activities include reviewing the regulation of subsistence hunting in northern Alaska\, documenting traditional ecological knowledge of marine mammals\, examining Iñupiat Eskimo and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice\, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities and Arctic marine mammals. \nTuesday\, July 27\nTHE FROZEN NORTH: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCTIC WITH DR. HENRY HUNTINGTON\nOnline\, via Zoom\nThis is part one of our four part collaboration with Context Travel\, as a special Members & Fellows series. These private events are included for free for all current Odd Salon Members\, Fellows. To join us: New members may join by purchasing either the four part series pass for $125\, or purchase tickets here to join the membership and reserve a spot for this seminar only for our standard annual membership cost of $100. \n\nABOUT CONTEXT TRAVEL: Context Learning is a cultural education provider\, connecting global scholars with lifelong learners. Founded in Rome in 2003\, Context started as a tour operator for travelers seeking off-the-beaten-path experiences in the world’s cultural capitals\, growing quickly to 20\,000 tours a year across 70+ destinations. After COVID-19 halted travel operations\, Context continued to expand\, launching live\, scholar-led seminars and courses presented online. What emerged was a thriving community of experts and learners keen to continue exploring\, growing\, and philosophizing\, regardless of their location. To date we’ve covered thousands of topics ranging from Tuscany to Timbuktu\, Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo\, Ancient Rome to Brexit. Context strives to be the cultural center for lifelong learning\, at-home\, on the ground\, and everywhere in between.   \nIf you are not already familiar with the many wonders of Context Travel\, we’d heartily encourage you to go forth and explore their virtual and real-world exploration offerings \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-context-travel-the-frozen-north/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nWhat Strange Paradise \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nFrom the widely acclaimed\, best-selling author of American War: a new novel—beautifully written\, unrelentingly dramatic\, and profoundly moving—that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. \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. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. \n———– \nMore bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled\, ill-equipped\, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians\, Ethiopians\, Egyptians\, Lebanese\, Palestinians\, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously\, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir\, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl\, who\, despite being native to the island\, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers\, though they don’t speak a common language\, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. \nIn alternating chapters\, we learn about Amir’s life and how he came to be on the boat\, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference\, of hope and despair—and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality. \nOmar El Akkad is an author and a journalist. He has reported from Afghanistan\, Guantánamo Bay\, and many other locations around the world. His work earned Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Le Monde\, Guernica\, GQ\, and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel\, American War\, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award\, the Oregon Book Award for fiction\, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\, and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, NPR\, and Esquire\, and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. \nPraise for What Strange Paradise \n\n\n“What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad just resuscitated my heart. This novel—following a boy who survives a refugee passage\, and a girl whose homeland feels fractured—dares to unite us on the shore of shared human experience\, and redefines hope in the face of despair. I want to read this book every single day. I want to live in a world where the beauty of strangers is a heartsong.”\n—Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of Verge  \n“It is one thing to put a human face on a migrant crisis and another to do so in so compelling a way that a reader simply cannot put your book down. I read this in one sitting\, my heart pounding the whole way—in a strange paradise\, you might say. Marvelous.”\n—Gish Jen\, author of The Resisters \n“What an imaginative\, touching\, and necessary novel Omar El Akkad has brought to us. It reminds us of the human stories behind headlines and statistics\, and gives us one of the most memorable children characters\, whose story adds urgency and poignancy to that ‘awfully big adventure’ stated by Peter Pan.”\n—Yiyun Li\, author of Must I Go \n\nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omar-el-akkad-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, July 27\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85239569569\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/KlaraSunHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/KlaraSunAB. \nDescription\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! \nA magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. \nKlara and the Sun\, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature\, tells the story of Klara\, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities\, who\, from her place in the store\, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse\, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. \nKlara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator\, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? \nIn its award citation in 2017\, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro’s books as “novels of great emotional force” and said he has “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/klara-and-the-sun-by-kazuo-ishiguro-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210728T180000
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SUMMARY:Matthew Specktor in conversation with Adam Pfahler
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Specktor and Adam Pfahler discuss \nAlways Crashing in the Same Car: On Art\, Crisis\, and Los Angeles\, California \nby Matthew Specktor \npublished by Tin House \nBlending memoir and cultural criticism\, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy\, the lives of artists\, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment.  \n—– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nIn 2006\, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor’s first literary idol\, someone whose own passage through Hollywood had\, allegedly\, broken him. Freshly divorced\, professionally flailing\, and reeling from his mother’s cancer diagnosis\, Specktor was feeling unmoored. But rather than giving in or “cracking up\,” he embarked on an obsessive journey to make sense of the mythologies of “success” and “failure” that haunt the artist’s life and the American imagination. \nPart memoir\, part cultural history\, part portrait of place\, Always Crashing in the Same Car explores Hollywood through a certain kind of collapse. It’s a vibrant and intimate inspection of failure told through the lives of iconic\, if under-sung\, artists—Carole Eastman\, Eleanor Perry\, Warren Zevon\, Tuesday Weld\, and Hal Ashby\, among others—and the author’s own family history. Through this constellation of Hollywood figures\, he unearths a fascinating alternate history of the city that raised him and explores the ways in which curtailed ambition\, insufficiency\, and loss shape all our lives. \nAt once deeply personal and broadly erudite\, it is a story of an art form (the movies)\, a city (Los Angeles)\, and one person’s attempt to create meaning out of both. Above all\, Specktor creates a moving search for optimism alongside the inevitability of failure and reveals the still-resonant power of art to help us navigate the beautiful ruins that await us all. \n  \nMatthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound; a nonfiction book\, The Sting; and the forthcoming memoir The Golden Hour (Ecco/HarperCollins). His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, The Believer\, Tin House\, Vogue\, GQ\, Black Clock\, and Open City. He has been a MacDowell fellow\, and is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He resides in Los Angeles. To learn more visit: www.matthewspecktor.com   \nAdam Pfahler is a founding member of the band Jawbreaker and owner of Blackball Records. He has produced and played on dozens of records over the past three decades. He has a handful of IMDB credits as “Self” but inexplicably no Wikipedia page. He is endorsed by Ludwig Drums\, Paiste Cymbals\, Promark Drumsticks and Evans Drumheads but still has to pay 30% of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. He is a fourth generation Angeleno and currently lives in San Francisco’s Mission District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-specktor-in-conversation-with-adam-pfahler/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210729T170000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Jewell
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Jewell joins us to celebrate the publication of Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press). \n“One of the most inspiring compendiums of exquisitely landscaped gardens we’ve come across in years. Written by Jennifer Jewell and photographed by Caitlin Atkinson\, the book is both poetic and practical and celebrates the diversity of garden design throughout the West.” —Sunset \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Under Western Skies\nFrom windswept deserts to misty seaside hills and verdant valleys\, the natural landscapes of the American West offer an astounding variety of climates for gardens. Under Western Skies reveals thirty-six of the most innovative designs—all embracing and celebrating the very soul of the land on which they grow. \nFor the gardeners featured here\, nature is the ultimate inspiration rather than something to be dominated\, and Under Western Skies shows the strong connection each garden has with its place. Packed with Atkinson’s stunning photographs and illuminated by Jewell’s deep interest in the relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit\, Under Western Skies offers page after page of encouraging ingenuity and inventive design for passionate gardeners who call the West home. \nAbout Jennifer Jewell\nJennifer Jewell is a gardener\, garden writer\, and gardening educator and advocate. Since 2016\, she has written and hosted the national award-winning\, weekly public radio program and podcast\, Cultivating Place\, a coproduction of North State Public Radio in Chico\, California. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens\, the native plant environments around them\, and human culture\, she is the daughter of a garden- and floral-designing mother and a wildlife biologist father. Jennifer has been writing about gardening professionally since 1998\, and her work has appeared in Gardens Illustrated\, House & Garden\, Natural Home\, Old House Journal\, Colorado Homes & Lifestyles\, and Pacific Horticulture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-jewell/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T080000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series Jamil Jan Kochai
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, November 3\, 2021 – 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nJamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking\, 2019)\, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar\, Pakistan\, but he originally hails from Logar\, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Ploughshares\, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. Currently\, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-jamil-jan-kochai/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon: Anna North\, Vince Granata\, Mia P. Manansala\, Tonya M. Foster & Zoe Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon presents a special\nonline performance\nSaturday\, September 11\, 2021\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nZoom Registration coming soon\n\nAnna North \n(Outlawed; The Life and Death of Sophie Stark) \nA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * INDIE NEXT SELECTION * LIBRARY READS SELECTION * AMAZON BEST OF THE MONTH AND EDITOR’S PICK \n“North’s knockout latest chronicles the travails of a midwife’s daughter who joins a group of female and nonbinary outlaws near the end of the 19th century . . . The characters’ struggles for gender nonconformity and LGBTQ rights are tenderly and beautifully conveyed. This feminist western parable is impossible to put down.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) \n“2021 is already a year that could use a little joy. Here to provide some is the scrappy new feminist Western novel Outlawed . . . It’s an absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book: witchy nuns\, heists\, a marriage of convenience\, and a midwife trying to build a bomb out of horse dung.” – Vox \nAnna North is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two previous novels\,America Pacifica and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark\, which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2016 . She has been a writer and editor at Jezebel\,BuzzFeed\, Salon\, and the New York Times\, and she is now a senior reporter at Vox. She grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn. \n— \nVince Granata \n(Everything is Fine) \n“Although he writes of an unimaginable family tragedy\, Vincent Granata’s Everything is Fine reads like a testament to life itself. Suffused with emotional depth and intellectual inquiry\, this is a writer pushing the very limits of what language and love can capture: the suffering\, certainly\, but more so the astonishing power of forgiveness and survival. This book will never leave you.” —Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us \nVince Granata received his BA in history from Yale University and his MFA in creative writing from American University. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts\, the I-Park Foundation\, and the Ucross Foundation\, and residencies from PLAYA and the MacDowell Colony. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review\, The Chattahoochee Review\, and Fourth Genre\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2018. \n— \nTonya M. Foster \n(A Swarm of Bees in High Court) \nTonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on ideas of place and emplacement\, and on intersections between the visual and the written. She is an editor at Fence Magazine\, and at The African-American Review. Her poetry\, prose\, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo\, Tripwire\, boundary2\, MiPOESIAS\, NYFA Arts Quarterly\, the Poetry Project Newsletter\, and elsewhere. Tonya is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Ford and the Mellon Foundations\, from NYFA; and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and at the Macdowell colony. Her next collections are a cross-genre collection on New Orleans—A Mathematics of Chaos::Thingification (forthcoming from Ugly Presse 2021)\, and Monkey Talk\, a cross-genre series about race\, paranoia\, aesthestics\, and surveillance. She is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. \n— \nMia P. Manansala \n(Arsenic and Adobo) \nMia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books\, baking\, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora\, queerness\, and her millennial love for pop culture. She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award\, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award\, the 2017 William F. Deeck – Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers\, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She’s also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor. Her debut novel\, ARSENIC AND ADOBO\, came out May 4\, 2021 with Berkley/Penguin Random House and is the first in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series. \n— \nwith music by \nZoe Fitzgerald Carter \n(Imperfect Endings; Waterlines) \n“The questions that rise from her story are urgent\, important and timely…sharply focused\, engaged with essential ethical questions…the end of the book is so full of grace and acceptance that one might forget the memoir began with such urgent\, roaring questions.”—San Francisco Chronicle \nZoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon and Vogue. Imperfect Endings won first place in the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s literary contest\, was excerpted in O magazine and chosen as a finalist for the National MS Society’s Books for a Better Life Awards in the “Inspirational Memoir” category. It was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. \nZoe is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, where she teaches memoir. She has also taught (and run) writing workshops from Hawaii to Vermont\, and currently teaches memoir and songwriting at Left Margin Lit in Berkeley\, CA. In the last couple of years\, she’s been focusing on her career as a musician. Her first CD\, Waiting for the Earthquake came out in 2017 and can be found on all the streaming platforms. Her new album\, Waterlines\, was released in 2021. \n— \nin partnership with our friends at  \nThe Booksmith\, \ncurrently offering curbside pickup and in-person browsing \nin their new location  at  \n1727 Haight Street\, San Francisco \n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-anna-north-vince-granata-mia-p-manansala-tonya-m-foster-zoe-fitzgerald/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karla Huebner\, Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n\nKarla Huebner discusses her new book on the surrealist artist Toyen. \nPart art book and part biography\, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová\, 1902–80)\, a founding member of the Prague surrealist group\, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism. Toyen’s early life in Prague enabled her to become a force in three avant-garde groups—Devětsil\, Prague surrealism\, and Paris surrealism—yet\, unusually for a female artist of her generation\, Toyen presented both her gender and sexuality as ambiguous and often emphasized erotic themes in her work. \nKarla Huebner offers a re-evaluation of surrealism\, the Central European contribution to modernism\, and the role of female artists in the avant-garde\, along with a complex and nuanced view of women’s roles in and treatment by the surrealist movement. \nYouTube Live \nKarla Huebner is a professor of Art History at Wright State University in Dayton\, Ohio\, whose research focuses on Czech modernism\, feminism and gender\, surrealism\, and visual culture. \nConnect – Website | Instagram | Blog | Facebook \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Readings & Lectures\n\n\nEngage with your favorite writers and discover your next read. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nArt\, Architecture & Photography\n\n\nLearn from world-class designers\, artists and experts in their fields. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n2021 Summer Stride\n\n\nSummer Stride is the Library’s annual summer learning\, reading and exploration program for all ages and abilities. Read and learn with the Library all summer long. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nATTENDING PROGRAMS\nQuestions about the program or problems registering? Contact sfplcpp@sfpl.org. For accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER\nThis program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link\, you will leave SFPL’s website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect personally identifying information about you\, such as name\, username\, email address\, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each third-party website or service that you visit or use\, including those third parties with whom you interact through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links\, please see the section of SFPL’s Privacy Policy describing Links to Other Sites. \nThe views and opinions expressed in programs presented by groups unaffiliated with SFPL do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SFPL or the City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karla-huebner-magnetic-woman-toyen-and-the-surrealist-erotic/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215243
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SUMMARY:Writing from the Heart w/ Dr. PELLER MARION
DESCRIPTION:An adventurous mix of writing and some art too \nThis drop-in and on-going Zoom group requires no experience. All you need to bring is a notebook and a pen. Peller will bring the instruction\, inspiration\, safe space\, writing and art prompts. \n\nFind your writing voice.\nDive into your creativity.\nDeepen your writing practice.  \nShare your stories\, memories\, and inspirations.\nGet steady positive affirmation for your work in a  community of passionate writers.\n\n  \nFirst and and fourth Wednesdays each month\n1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \nContact facilitator Peller Marion via email to get the zoom link\npellermarion@gmail.com\nDonations accepted to O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\n616 Throckmorton Avenue• Mill Valley• Ca.• 94941
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-from-the-heart-w-dr-peller-marion/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215243
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SUMMARY:Poets@Play!
DESCRIPTION:After a long absence\, Poets@Play is returning! For those not familiar with it\, P@P is an informal writing group that meets at the Edwin Markham House at History Park\, which is operated by Poetry Center San José.\n\nWe plan to meet on the first Sunday afternoon of the month\, though there will be months when we do not meet\, or switch to another day. We take time to write and share whatever poetry we are working on. The option of coming to just listen is there also.\n\nWe are coming back with a cautious approach. We will be requiring masks for all attendees\, even those who have been fully vaccinated against SARS-Cov-2. Also we will be limiting this at first to only 7 attendees\, including the leader\, so that we can provide some level of social distancing. We will not be providing tea/coffee beverage service or snacks; you may bring your own if you wish.\n\nWe are making this by RSVP for now\, so that we can ensure the 7-person limit. The theme is open this time. You could choose to do some writing/revising about our pandemic experience of the past 16 months\, or select something else entirely.\n\nSunday\, August 1\, 2021\, 1 to 4 pm.\nPlease send a message to poetsatplay@pcsj.org if you would like to attend\, by Friday\, July 30.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetsplay/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210802T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210802T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215243
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SUMMARY:Online Intensive Literary Seminar Series - Brideshead Revisited\, by Evelyn Waugh
DESCRIPTION:Brideshead Revisited\, by Evelyn Waugh\nIf you have been looking for a novel that is as sumptuous as Downton Abbey or The Crown—and as smart and satirical as John Oliver\, read Brideshead Revisited with us! Named one of the top 100 novels in English by Modern Library\, Time\, Newsweek and the BBC\, Waugh’s magnum opus is the most delicious of escapes. \nThe work is nostalgic in the best of ways\, while also tackling large issues such as religion\, classism and sexuality. The novel is amazing enough but as a bonus\, the Jeremy Irons TV adaptation (from 1981!) really holds up. Join us for a summer in the English countryside! \nJoin Kimberly Ford\, for this two-part seminar series on Waugh’s classic Brideshead Revisited. We will be hosting this two-part series on the following dates: \nMonday\, August 2 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nMonday\, August 9 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nThere are several ticket options that include books with purchase\, books shipped to home\, books picked up at Kepler’s Books or seminar only.  Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all shipping costs will be waived for the literary seminars. The books should be read prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-intensive-literary-seminar-series-brideshead-revisited-by-evelyn-waugh/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210802T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210802T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215243
CREATED:20210731T214024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T214024Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning / virtual literary mixtape curated by Rhea Dhanbhoora & Mahdis Marzooghian
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing\, curated through a blind process by Rhea Dhanbhoora and Mahdis Marzooghian into a one-night only performance in two sets: \nSet 1: Ashley Mayne\, Amanda Spiller\, Steven Gray\, Courtney Arnold\, D. E. La Valle\, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman\, Melissa Flores Anderson\, Rietta Parker\, Andre Le Mont Wilson\, Sarah Plummer\, Ada Genavia \nSet 2: Sheila Black\, Lita Kurth\, Colette Chien\, Judit Hollos\, Charlie Getter\, Kate Oksas\, Amanda Woodward\, Cléo Charpantier\, Vince Montague\, Susana Praver-Perez\, Becca Rose Hall\, Mike Horan & Roger Topp \nAll selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE + bLINK 111\, featuring cover art by Yerrie Choo! \nPlease note: this show is free and all ages (with mature content)\, but RSVP is required. \nABOUT FREE SHOWS \nIf you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’ve decided to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are two easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation of any amount: \nPaypal or Venmo \nOr consider supporting us on Patreon! \nABOUT THE BOOKS \nIf you’d like to purchase the book you can do that for $10 + shipping here\, or you can donate $15 or more to Quiet Lightning by Paypal or Venmo and we’ll send you sPARKLE & bLINK 109 + a surprise back issue. \nA note about the books: if we don’t sell out before we print our next book\, the price will go down to $5/copy. You can order most of our back issues here. You should also know: we make all of our books available to read and watch for free. For virtual events we are printing 75 books/show. 100% of all proceeds\, donations or not\, go toward local artists and independent businesses. \nABOUT THE CURATORS \nRhea Dhanbhoora lives and writes in Upstate NY. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications including Five on the Fifth\, Chronogram\, Connecticut Mag\, Artsy\, Broccoli Mag\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, and JMWW. She’s currently a freelance writer and editor\, reads for literary magazines\, is on the Board for Quiet Lightning\, and is working on several creative projects\, among which is a linked collection about women\, based in the underrepresented Parsi Zoroastrian diaspora. Her chapbook\, “Sandalwood-Scented Skeletons\,” is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press. Follow her work at rheadhanbhoora.com. \nMahdis Marzooghian is cofounder and co-Editor-in-Chief of Five on the Fifth. She is also Editor-in-Chief of Screen Fervor. She has a master’s degree in Professional Writing from Towson University and is currently a financial news editor at Money Map Press\, based in Baltimore. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Heartwood Literary Magazine\, Welter Literary Journal\, Mud Season Review\, Adirondack Review\, BULL Fiction Magazine\, and Lunch Ticket. Additionally\, her short essay\, “Collection Connection\,” was published in the 2012 series anthology\, Miso for Life: A Melting Pot of Thoughts. Mahdis recently finished her debut novel\, for which she is currently seeking representation. \nCan’t make it? The show will be archived in video and full text\, like all of our previous readings! Find them\, along with a daily calendar of Bay Area literary events + more\, @ Litseen. \nNot on our mailing list yet? Sign up for email updates of upcoming Quiet Lightning events and calls for submissions. \nFeatured images by Yerrie Choo\, featured artist for sPARKLE & bLINK 111 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-virtual-literary-mixtape-curated-by-rhea-dhanbhoora-mahdis-marzooghian/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: David Hoon Kim and Kevin Brockmeier
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, August 3 at 6pm PT when David Hoon Kim discusses his debut novel\, Paris is a Party\, Paris is a Ghost\, with Kevin Brockmeier on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_c6yfSwmBTWa9HbXpzeRuvA \nAbout Paris is a Party\, Paris is a Ghost \nIn a strangely distorted Paris\, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved. \nWhen Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room\, she’s already dead\, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend\, Henrik Blatand\, an aspiring translator\, these remnants are like clues\, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile\, Fumiko\, or perhaps her doppelgänger\, reappears: in line at the Louvre\, on street corners and subway platforms\, and on the dissection table of a group of medical students. \nHenrik’s inquiry expands beyond Fumiko’s seclusion and death\, across the absurd\, entropic streets of Paris and the figures that wander them\, from a jaded group of Korean expats\, to an eccentric French widow\, to the indelible woman whom Henrik finds sitting in his place on a train. It drives him into the shadowy corners of his past\, where his adoptive Danish parents raised him in a house without mirrors. And it mounts to a charged intimacy shared with his best friend’s precocious daughter\, who may be haunted herself. \nDavid Hoon Kim’s debut is a transgressive\, darkly comic novel of becoming lost and found in translation. With each successive\, echoic chapter\, Paris Is a Party\, Paris Is a Ghost plunges us more deeply beneath the surface of things\, to the displacement\, exile\, grief\, and desire that hide in plain sight. \nAbout David Hoon Kim \nDavid Hoon Kim is a Korean-born American educated in France\, who took his first creative writing workshop at the Sorbonne before attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Stegner Program. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, Brins d’éternité\, Le Sabord and XYZ La revue de la nouvelle. He has been awarded fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, among others. Paris Is a Party\, Paris Is a Ghost is his first book. He writes in English and in French.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-david-hoon-kim-and-kevin-brockmeier/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T200000
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SUMMARY:Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights in conjunction with Association of Ramaytush Ohlone\, Do No Harm Coalition\, Health Justice Commons\, and San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibilty \n   \nRupa Marya\, Raj Patel and friends \ncelebrate the launch of their new book \nInflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice \npublished by Farrar Strauss Giroux \n \nINFLAMED reveals the links between health and structural injustices–and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world. \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———– \nThe coronavirus pandemic and the shocking racial disparities in its impact. The surge in inflammatory illnesses such as gastrointestinal disorders and asthma. Mass uprisings around the world in response to systemic racism and violence. Climate refugees. Our bodies\, societies\, and planet are inflamed. \nBoldly original\, Inflamed takes us on a medical tour through the human body: our digestive\, endocrine\, circulatory\, respiratory\, reproductive\, immune\, and nervous systems. Unlike a traditional anatomy book\, however\, this groundbreaking book illuminates the hidden relationships between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. Inflammation is connected to the food that we eat\, to the air that we breathe\, and to the diversity of microbes living inside us\, which regulate everything from our brain development to our immune system. It’s connected to the number of traumatic events we experienced as children and to the trauma endured by our ancestors. It’s connected not only to access to health care but to the very models of health that physicians practice. \nRaj Patel\, renowned political economist and New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing\, teams up with physician Rupa Marya to offer a radical new cure: the deep medicine of decolonization. Decolonization is to heal what has been divided\, reestablishing our relationship to the earth and to each other. Combining the latest scientific research and scholarship on globalization\, the stories of Marya’s work with patients in marginalized communities\, activist passion\, and the wisdom of indigenous groups\, Inflamed points the way toward a deep medicine that has the potential to heal not only our bodies but the world. \nDr. Rupa Marya is a physician\, activist\, mother\, and composer. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California\, San Francisco where she practices and teaches Internal Medicine. Her research examines the health impacts of social systems\, from agriculture to policing. She is a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition\, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. She is the composer and frontwoman for the band Rupa & the April Fishes whose music was described by legend Gil Scott Heron as “Liberation Music.” \nRaj Patel is a Research Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs\, a professor in the University’s department of nutrition\, and a Research Associate at Rhodes University\, South Africa. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved\, the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing\, and co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A James Beard Leadership Award winner\, he is completing a film on the global food system\, and is a leading thinker and organizer around the Green New Deal. He serves on the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems\, and has advised governments on causes and solutions to crises of sustainability worldwide. \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rupa-marya-and-raj-patel/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T200000
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SUMMARY:Chaney Kwak in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Cheaney Kwak\, author\, and Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZYVA will discuss writing\, travel\, near death experiences and Kwak’s debut novel. \nYouTube Live \nThe Passenger How A Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies From A Sinking Ship is neither straight reported nonfiction\, nor straight memoir: it’s a compelling mix of the two that’s both harrowing in its closely reported details and laugh out loud funny in its searing honesty. By the end you’ll agree\, you couldn’t ask for a better guide to twenty -seven unforgettable hours aboard a maybe-sinking-ship than Chaney Kwak. – Joshua Bodwell\, Editorial Director \nChaney Kwak has written for publications such as The New York Times\, Condé Nast Traveler\, Food & Wine\,  Travel & Leisure  and a number of National Geographic anthologies. His fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Catamaran Literary Review\, Gertrude and other literary journals\, earning a special mention from the Pushcart Prize. \nA winner of the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Awards\, Kwak has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and was a Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Brown Handler Resident. \nHe teaches nonfiction writing at the Stanford Continuing Studies program. \nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZYVA. His writing has been published in several publications\, including Freeman’s\, Zocalo\, The Believer and Lit Hub. He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nConnect \nChaney Kwak – Website | Instagram | Twitter \nOscar Villalon – Twitter \nZYZZYVA – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Readings & Lectures\n\n\nEngage with your favorite writers and discover your next read. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n2021 Summer Stride\n\n\nSummer Stride is the Library’s annual summer learning\, reading and exploration program for all ages and abilities. Read and learn with the Library all summer long.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chaney-kwak-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T210000
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SUMMARY:Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
DESCRIPTION:Nicola Twilley and Geoff Manaugh join us to discuss their startlingly relevant new book\, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine (MCD). \n“Until Proven Safe combines history\, geography\, epidemiology\, and the ethics of space exploration—how can this be? Because\, as the authors explain in a very entertaining and wide-ranging way\, quarantine\, ironically enough\, crosses borders of space and time to make a complex knot of stories. Timely\, eye-opening\, provocative—you will see the world differently after reading it.” —Kim Stanley Robinson\, Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus award-winning novelist\, and author of Ministry for the Future \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast page. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Until Proven Safe\nGeoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe\, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive\, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological\, political\, technological––that shape our modern world. \nQuarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous\, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine\, we are considered infectious until proven safe. \nUntil Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe\, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean\, built to contain the Black Death\, to an experimental Ebola unit in London\, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. \nBut the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. In Until Proven Safe\, the authors tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert\, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply\, and meet NASA’s Planetary Protection Officer\, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. They also introduce us to the corporate tech giants hoping to revolutionize quarantine through surveillance and algorithmic prediction. \nWe live in a disorienting historical moment that can feel both unprecedented and inevitable; Until Proven Safe helps us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported\, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom\, governance\, and mutual responsibility. \nAbout the authors\nNICOLA TWILLEY is co-host of the award-winning podcast Gastropod\, which looks at food through the lens of history and science\, and an award-winning contributor to The New Yorker. She 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. He lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geoff-manaugh-and-nicola-twilley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210804T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210804T170000
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SUMMARY:Annie Zaleski with Kevin Smokler / Duran Duran's Rio
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Annie Zaleski for her new book\, Duran Duran’s Rio\, part of the acclaimed 331/3 book series. She’ll be in conversation with Booksmith BFF and author of Brat Pack America and Practical Classics\, Kevin Smokler. Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Duran Duran’s Rio here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe 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 events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nIn the ’80s\, the Birmingham\, England\, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave\, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade’s music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act’s breakthrough 1982 LP\, Rio. A cohesive album with a retro-futuristic sound-influences include danceable disco\, tangy funk\, swaggering glam\, and Roxy Music’s art-rock-the full-length sold millions and spawned smashes such as “Hungry Like the Wolf” and the title track. \nHowever\, Rio wasn’t a success everywhere at first; in fact\, the LP had to be buffed-up with remixes and reissued before it found an audience in America. The album was further buoyed by colorful music videos\, which established Duran Duran as leaders of an MTV-driven second British Invasion\, and the group’s cutting-edge visual aesthetic. Via extensive new interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio succeed\, this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark pop-rock album\, and examines how the LP was both a musical inspiration-and a reflection of a musical\, cultural\, and technology zeitgeist. \nAbout the authors\nCleveland\, Ohio-based author\, journalist and editor Annie Zaleski is an award-winning writer with profiles\, interviews\, and criticism in a variety of publications. Bylines include Rolling Stone\, NPR Music\, The Guardian\, Salon\, Time\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, Vulture\, The Los Angeles Times\, Stereogum\, Cleveland Plain Dealer\, andLas Vegas Weekly. She also contributed liner notes to the 2016 reissue of R.E.M.’s Out of Time and Game Theory’s 2020 collection Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript. \nKevin Smokler (@weegee) is a writer\, documentary filmmaker and event host with a focus on pop culture. He’s the author of the book Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies (2016) and the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School (2013). In 2020\, he co-directed the documentary film Vinyl Nation on the contemporary renaissance of vinyl records in America\, which has screened at 27 film festivals in the US\, Europe and Australia. He’s appeared in conversation onstage with comedians\, playwrights\, authors\, magazine publishers\, architects\, musicians and filmmakers for the last 2 decades and lives in San Francisco. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/annie-zaleski-with-kevin-smokler-duran-durans-rio/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Did I Say You Could Go: Melanie Gideon in conversation with Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, August 19\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of DID I SAY YOU COULD GO with author Melanie Gideon in conversation with Natalie Baszile (author of WE ARE EACH OTHER’S HARVEST: CELEBRATING AFRICAN AMERICAN FARMERS\, LAND\, AND LEGACY). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84357144645 and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of DID I SAY YOU COULD GO at http://bit.ly/ggpDidISay\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/DidISayAB. Order your copy of WE ARE EACH OTHER’S HARVEST in print from GGP at http://bit.ly/ggpHarvest or in #audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/HarvestAB. \nDescription\n\nA suspenseful\, gripping novel about families and friendships torn apart at the seams by obsession\, secrets\, and betrayal with relentless twists and turns that hurtle forward to a shocking confrontation. \nWhen Ruth\, a wealthy divorcé​e\, offers to host the Hillside Academy kindergarten meet-and-greet\, she hopes this will be a fresh start for her and her introverted daughter\, Marley. Finally\, they’ll be accepted into a tribe. Marley will make friends and Ruth will be welcomed by the mothers. Instead\, the parents are turned off by Ruth’s ostentatious wealth and before kindergarten even begins\, Ruth and Marley are outcasts. \nThe last guest to arrive at the meet-and-greet is Gemma\, a widow and a single mother to her daughter\, Bee. Ruth sets her sights on the mother-daughter duo\, and soon the two families are inseparable. Ruth takes Gemma and Bee on Aspen vacations\, offers VIP passes to Cirque du Soleil\, and pays for dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants. For Gemma\, who lives paycheck to paycheck\, Ruth’s largesse is seductive\, but as the years go by\, she can’t shake the feeling that she’s accruing an increasingly unpayable debt. When Ruth’s affair with a married Hillside dad is exposed\, and she’s publicly shunned\, Gemma uses it to sever ties with Ruth. \nSix years later\, when Gemma finds herself embroiled in a scandal of her own—Ruth comes to her defense. Their renewed friendship rehabilitates their reputations\, but once again\, Gemma starts to feel trapped as Ruth grows more and more obsessed with their relationship. \nA relentless page-turner\, Did I Say You Could Go is the story of friendships steeped in lies and duplicity. It’s about two families who\, when pushed to extremes\, cross the line with devastating results. \nAbout Melanie Gideon\n\nMelanie Gideon is the bestselling author of the novels\, Valley of the Moon and Wife 22\, as well as the memoir The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After. Her books have been translated into thirty-one languages. Wife 22 is currently in development. She has written for The New York Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Times (London)\, the Daily Mail (London)\, and other publications. She was born and raised in Rhode Island and now lives in the Bay Area. \nAbout Natalie Baszile\n\nNatalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar\, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014\, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/did-i-say-you-could-go-melanie-gideon-in-conversation-with-natalie-baszile/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Keith Boykin
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 6PM PT WHEN KEITH BOYKIN DISCUSSES HIS BOOK\, RACE AGAINST TIME: THE POLITICS OF A DARKENING AMERICA\, AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person Event\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i2ifIaLzTJS28dSVTok04Q \nPraise for Race Against Time\n“With clear insights and provocative analysis\, Keith Boykin showcases why he is one of the country’s foremost experts on race and politics in America. This book is timely\, relevant\, and important.”—Leah Wright Rigueur\, associate research professor at Johns Hopkins University \n“Race Against Time is Keith Boykin’s best book yet in a long list of books and anthologies that have helped define what cultural criticism is. This book is also an account of what it means to be overlooked in a capitalist landscape that denies the existence and contribution of black queer citizens. What floors me is that Boykin’s genius—from all the political and racial history from Reconstruction onward\, to his well-wrought recounting of the antics of US presidents from Reagan to Trump—still allows him to remain a man of hope and a writer that affirms the spirit in essays that speak to us as a comforting brother would.”—Jericho Brown\, author of The Tadition \n“In evocative fashion\, and through the depth of his personal experiences at the highest levels of American politics\, Keith Boykin traces the parameters of America’s ‘never-ending civil war\,’ from the shock of Clinton’s Black-voter-driven presidency though Bush and Obama and the white nationalist nightmare of Donald Trump. Race Against Time is essential reading at a calamitous time.”—Joy Reid\, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut \nAbout Race Against Time\nA Cold Civil War has engulfed the nation. \nAfter a deadly pandemic\, shocking incidents of police brutality\, a racial justice crisis\, and the fall of a dangerous demagogue\, America remains more divided than at any time in decades. At the heart of this national crisis is the fear of a darkening America—a country in which there is no longer a predominant white majority. \nAs the Republican Party has lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections\, its leaders have incited white Americans in a last-ditch race against time to stop the advance of a new\, multiracial emerging majority. Keith Boykin\, long time political commentator\, has watched this white resentment consume the GOP over the course of a life in politics\, activism\, and journalism. He has also observed the divisions among Democrats\, as white progressives have postponed demands for full racial equity\, while Black voters have often been too forgiving of party leaders who have failed to deliver. America can no longer avoid its long overdue reckoning with the past\, Boykin argues. With the familiarity of personal experience and the acuity of historical insight\, Boykin urges us to fight racism\, sexism\, xenophobia\, and homophobia\, and save the union\, not just by making Black lives matter\, but by making Black lives equal. \nAbout Keith Boykin\nKeith Boykin is a CNN political commentator\, New York Times best-selling author\, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. Boykin teaches at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York and previously taught at American University in Washington\, D.C. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition. He was a co-host of the BET Networks talk show “My Two Cents\,” starred on the Showtime reality television series “American Candidate\,” was an associate producer of the film “Dirty Laundry\,” and he has appeared on many other TV shows\, including BET’s “Being Mary Jane.” A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School\, Boykin is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of four books. He lives in New York City.​​​​​​​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keith-boykin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Anthony Richardson and Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, AUGUST 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN MARC ANTHONY RICHARDSON JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS NOVEL\, MESSIAHS\, WITH CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required While In-Store\nYou can join this event virtually by registering at the link below. \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cqwbFFuBQIS0qvGhukkbow \nPraise for Messiahs\n“Messiahs is a fever dream of storytelling. It explores racism and interracial conflict\, the deadly prison industrial complex\, climate emergency\, social death\, and more in prose that unfurls like waves of sound. Bleak\, though not without hope\, challenging\, though with numerous rewards along the way\, innovative from start to finish\, Messiahs is a marvel.”\n—John Keene\, MacArthur Fellow and author of Annotations and Counternarratives \n“In Messiahs\, Marc Anthony Richardson gives us an innovative\, intelligent\, and insightful take on several American obsessions\, including punishment\, incarceration\, and the death penalty. As much as this layered narrative presents a warning about things to come\, it also offers a profound examination of rebirth\, redemption\, second-acts. All in all an unnerving\, uncanny\, and challenging read on many levels\, but well worth the effort.”\n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank \nAbout Messiahs\nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice. \nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers\, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner\, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew\, yet was “exonerated” after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America\, one can assume a relative’s capital sentence as an act of holy reform-“the proxy initiative\,” patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters\, and after his release\, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter\, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years\, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs\, Messiahs‘ rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy.\nAbout Marc Anthony Richardson\nMarc Anthony Richardson is author of Year of the Rat\, winner of an American Book Award\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award\, a PEN America grant\, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:James Rebanks and Nick Offerman
DESCRIPTION:On his acclaimed new book\, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 6\, 2021 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAcclaimed author James Rebanks joins us from the UK to discuss his new book\, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Custom House). James will be joined in conversation by actor and author Nick Offerman. \n“James Rebanks’s story of his family’s farm is just about perfect.  It belongs with the finest writing of its kind.” — Wendell Berry \n“One of the most important books of our time. Anyone who cares about our land – indeed\, anyone who buys food – should read this book. Told with humility and grace\, this story of farming over three generations – where we went wrong and how we can change our ways – is at the forefront of a revolution. It will be our land’s salvation.” — Isabella Tree\, author of Wilding \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Pastoral Song\nThe Acclaimed International Bestseller * Named “Nature Book of the Year” by the Sunday Times (London) * Shortlisted for the the Orwell Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize \nAs a boy\, James Rebanks’s grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows\, of pastures grazed with livestock\, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet\, by the time James inherited the farm\, it was barely recognizable. The men and women had vanished from the fields; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies had emptied of birds and their wind-blown song. \nHailed as “a brilliant\, beautiful book” by the Sunday Times (London)\, Pastoral Song (published in the United Kingdom under the title English Pastoral) is the story of an inheritance: one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse\, and the age-old rhythms of work\, weather\, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the northern fells is also a song of hope: of how\, guided by the past\, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his\, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future. \nThis is a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place\, and how\, against all the odds\, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral: not a utopia\, but somewhere decent for us all. \nAbout James Rebanks\nJames Rebanks runs a family-owned farm in the Lake District in northern England. A graduate of Oxford University\, James works as an expert advisor to UNESCO on sustainable tourism. He uses his popular Twitter feed – @herdyshepherd1 – to share updates on the shepherding year. He is the author of The Shepherd’s Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-rebanks-and-nick-offerman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On the Practice of Presence for Healing Personal and Collective Grief
DESCRIPTION:In unsettling and uncertain times\, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in both our bodies and our communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name\, focus on\, or wade through the difficulties in our lives. But in order to heal\, we must make space for grief\, prioritizing our wholeness\, humanity\, and inherent divinity. \nSocial justice activist\, social worker\, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers to those who feel brokenhearted\, helpless\, confused\, powerless\, and desperate the tools they need to be present and openhearted with their grief. In her latest book\, Finding Refuge\, Michelle uses personal narrative\, meditation\, and journaling practices to explore being present with our hearts\, empowering us to see that we each have a role to play in taking intentional action to build momentum toward a shifting what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Through her work and writing\, Michelle invites us to pick up the shattered parts of ourselves and remember our strength\, wholeness\, and sacredness through the practice of presence and attending to our grief. \nJoin program innovation leader in mindfulness\, trauma\, and racial healing Jenee Johnson in a conversation with Michelle about her latest book\, her life and her work\, and learn how to process your own grief\, as well as family\, community\, and global grief. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/johnson-cassandra-michelle-august-4-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-practice-of-presence-for-healing-personal-and-collective-grief/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Brian Evenson in conversation with Sarah Rose Etter
DESCRIPTION:eading from \nThe Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell \npublished by Coffee House Press \n—– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———– \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nA sentient\, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men—of all the terrors that populate The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell\, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short story collection\, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the Anthropocene that forces excruciating decisions about survival and self-sacrifice in the face of toxic air and a natural world torn between revenge and regeneration. Combining psychological and ecological horror\, each tale thrums with Evenson’s award-winning literary craftsmanship\, dark humor\, and thrilling suspense. \nBrian Evenson is the author of over a dozen works of fiction. He has received three O. Henry Prizes for his fiction. His most recent book\, 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. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. \nSarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party\, and The Book of X\, her first novel\, which is the winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award for novel. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica\, BOMB\, Gulf Coast\, The Cut\, VICE\, and more. She has been awarded residences at the Jack Kerouac House\, the Disquiet International program in Portugal\, and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland. \nPraise for The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell \n“Masterful and foreboding\, each story in The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell is a tightly wound mystery which unravels just enough to show us the dark depths of the human condition. From a curator intent on destroying all evidence of human life to a house intent on consuming its inhabitants\, don’t be surprised if you catch yourself holding your breath as you enter these fantastic worlds. Brian Evenson is one of our most brilliant minds\, and he has outdone himself again.” —Sarah Rose Etter \n“Literary horror at its most existential\, visceral\, and wonderful. These strange stories build upon each other to create an uncanny shadow universe rich\, vivid and shimmering with every kind of terror. Another brilliant collection.” —Mona Awad \n“In this rich offering\, a true collection of worlds\, Evenson gives us visions of the future that are avenues to the past; glimpses of the strange where we find what’s deeply familiar; in the living\, the dead; and in these fantastic stories\, the clearest\, starkest portrait of our depraved reality. Evenson at his greatest—visceral\, relentless\, alive.” —Samantha Hunt \n“Like with Borges or Kafka\, every one of Brian Evenson’s stories are a whole world distilled down to a few pages\, and rendered in a pointillism that feels not just abstract\, but cosmic\, yet is gritty all the same\, and leaves a distinct\, bloody residue in your mind\, in your heart. And then you can no longer look at the world the way you used to.” —Stephen Graham Jones
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brian-evenson-in-conversation-with-sarah-rose-etter/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ashley Nelson Levy and Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Celebrates her debut novel\, Immediate Family\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, August 4\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Nelson Levy joins us to celebrate the publication of her stunning debut novel\, Immediate Family (FSG). Ashley will be joined in conversation by writer and critic Ismail Muhammad. \n“Composed with emotional candor and intellectual clarity\, Immediate Family is about the improbable relentlessness of love. It’s a testament to the reality that no family\, regardless of origin or composition\, is ever fully formed: most days the best we can do is keep each other from coming undone. It’s a book that refuses tidy conclusions\, and yet by the time I turned the last page\, this book that had undone me had also left me magnificently whole.” —Anthony Marra\, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Immediate Family\nIt is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them\, her brother\, Danny\, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin\, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother\, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings\, and shared bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light\, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. \nWhat follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up\, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him\, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane\, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. \nIn Immediate Family\, a tender and fierce debut novel\, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood\, infertility\, race\, and the many definitions of family. \nAbout Ashley Nelson Levy\nAshley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University\, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015\, she cofounded Transit Books\, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature. Immediate Family is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-nelson-levy-and-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ashley Nelson Levy Celebrates her debut novel\, Immediate Family
DESCRIPTION:Ashley Nelson Levy joins us to celebrate the publication of her stunning debut novel\, Immediate Family (FSG). \n“Composed with emotional candor and intellectual clarity\, Immediate Family is about the improbable relentlessness of love. It’s a testament to the reality that no family\, regardless of origin or composition\, is ever fully formed: most days the best we can do is keep each other from coming undone. It’s a book that refuses tidy conclusions\, and yet by the time I turned the last page\, this book that had undone me had also left me magnificently whole.” —Anthony Marra\, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Immediate Family\nIt is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them\, her brother\, Danny\, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin\, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother\, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings\, and shared bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light\, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. \nWhat follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up\, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him\, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane\, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. \nIn Immediate Family\, a tender and fierce debut novel\, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood\, infertility\, race\, and the many definitions of family. \nAbout Ashley Nelson Levy\nAshley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University\, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015\, she cofounded Transit Books\, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature. Immediate Family is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-nelson-levy-celebrates-her-debut-novel-immediate-family/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Cruwys via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:August 5 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Recurring Event (See all)\n\n\n\n\nFor poets and poetry lovers alike \nJoin with OHCA resident poet Cruwys Brown and 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Marin County\, CB Follett\, for an afternoon of poetry exploration\, reading\, and discussion. \nSubmit a short (one page max) poem to share and discuss in advance to office@ohanloncenter.org. This can be a poem you love\, or want to explore. One you have written or not. \nEight people max. \nSince space is limited please contact Erma Murphy\, erma@ohanoncenter.org to register. \n$10\, $8 OHCA members \nShort bio of Cruwys Brown\nDick Brown is a long-time explorer of poetry. The first poetry group he attended was in 1965 in Brooklyn Heights\, NY\, around the corner from where Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. He has been involved in poetry workshops over the past several years. He founded the Marin Poet Laureate Program with the Marin County Free Library System.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-cruwys-via-zoom/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Kaveh Akbar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 5 at 6pm PT when Kaveh Akbar reads from his latest poetry collection\, Pilgrim Bell\, in-person at 9th Ave! MASKS REQUIRED  \nYou can watch the livestream of this event online by registering at the link below: \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_LkAVIbOeRpqn-rACAEZ62g \nPraise for Pilgrim Bell \n“Kaveh Akbar exquisitely and tenaciously braids astonishment and atonement into a singular lyric voice . . . intensely inventive and original.” —Frank Bidart \n“[Akbar’s] poems have as much audacity as humility\, a rare mix of openness in a time of flinching anxiety.” —francine j. harris \n“Akbar’s poems offer readers\, religious or not\, a way to cultivate faith in times of deepest fear.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) \nAbout Pilgrim Bell \nKaveh Akbar’s exquisite\, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf \nWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision\, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal\, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is\, too\, a kind of self-destruction\, what does one do with the body’s question\, “what now shall I repair?” Here\, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance—the infinite void of a loved one’s absence\, the indulgence of austerity\, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation—teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness. \nRichly crafted and generous\, Pilgrim Bell’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits\, against the atrocities of the American empire\, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace\, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives—resonant\, revelatory\, and holy. \nAbout Kaveh Akbar \nKaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and has received honors such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran\, Iran\, he teaches at Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson and Randolph Colleges.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-kaveh-akbar/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ladyparts — author Deborah Copaken in conversation with Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, August 5\, 2021 at 6 PM PDT for a discussion of LADYPARTS with author Deborah Copaken in conversation with Ayelet Waldman (author of A REALLY GOOD DAY: HOW MICRODOSING MADE A MEGA DIFFERENCE IN MY MOOD\, MY MARRIAGE\, AND MY LIFE). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85308181680 and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of LADYPARTS\, at http://bit.ly/ggpLadyparts\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/LadypartsAB. Order your copy of A REALLY GOOD DAY in print from GGP at http://bit.ly/ggpReallyGoodDay or in #audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/ReallyGoodDayAB. \nDescription\n\nA frank\, witty\, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apart–from the “brilliant mind” (Michaela Coel\, creator of I May Destroy You) behind Shutterbabe \n  \n“The most laugh-out-loud story of resilience you’ll ever read and an essential road map for the importance of narrative as a tool of healing.”–Lori Gottlieb\, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone \n  \nI’m crawling around on the bathroom floor\, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces. \nTwenty years after her iconic memoir Shutterbabe\, Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered\, broke\, divorcing\, dissected\, and dying–literally–on sexism’s battlefield as she scoops up what she believes to be her internal organs into a glass container before heading off to the hospital . . . in an UberPool. \nLadyparts is her irreverent inventory of both the female body and the body politic of womanhood in America\, the story of one woman brought to her knees by the one-two-twelve punch of divorce\, solo motherhood\, healthcare Frogger\, unaffordable childcare\, shady landlords\, her father’s death\, college tuitions\, sexual harassment\, corporate indifference\, ageism\, sexism\, and plain old bad luck. Plus seven serious illnesses\, one atop the other\, which provide the book’s narrative skeleton: vagina\, uterus\, breast\, heart\, cervix\, brain\, and lungs. She bounces back from each bum body part\, finds workarounds for every setback–she transforms her home into a commune to pay rent; sells her soul for health insurance; turns FBI informant when her sexual harasser is nominated to the White House–but in her slippery struggle to survive a steep plunge off the middle-class ladder\, she is suddenly awoken to what it means to have no safety net. \nSide-splittingly funny one minute\, a freak horror show the next\, quintessentially American\, Ladyparts is an era-defining memoir for our time. \nAbout the Panelists\n\nDeborah Copaken is the bestselling author of Shutterbabe\, The Red Book\, and Between Here and April. An Emmy Award-winning news producer and award-winning photojournalist\, she is also a columnist at The Atlantic and a screenwriter for the Netflix show Emily in Paris. Her New York Times Modern Love column\, “When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist\,” was adapted for this TV series\, and she has performed on the New York City stage multiple times. Her essays have also appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Observer\, Financial Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The Nation. She lives in Brooklyn. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace\, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She was a federal public defender and taught at Loyola Law School and the UC Berkeley School of Law\, where she developed and taught courses on the legal implications of the war on drugs. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her husband\, Michael Chabon\, and their four children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ladyparts-author-deborah-copaken-in-conversation-with-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Jerry Spinelli\, Dead Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:Fans of Stargirl and Maniac Magee rejoice! Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli delivers a brilliant new novel about being bold\, and taking charge of your life. \nTickets for this special virtual event will go on sale soon. \nWorm Tarnauer has spent most of eighth grade living down to his nickname. He prefers to be out of sight\, underground. He walked the world unseen. He’s happy to let his best friend\, Eddie\, lead the way and rule the day. \nAnd this day—Dead Wednesday—is going to be awesome. The school thinks assigning each eighth grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year and having them don black shirts and become “invisible” will make them contemplate their own mortality. Yeah\, sure. The kids know that being invisible to teachers really means you can get away with anything. It’s a day to go wild! \nBut Worm didn’t count on Becca Finch (17\, car crash). Letting this girl into his head is about to change everything. \nJerry Spinelli tells the story of the unexpected\, heartbreaking\, hilarious\, truly epic day when Worm Tarnauer discovers his own life. \nJERRY SPINELLI is the author of many beloved novels for young readers\, including Stargirl; Love\, Stargirl; Milkweed; The Warden’s Daughter; Crash; Wringer; and Maniac Magee\, winner of the Newbery Medal; along with Knots in My Yo-Yo String\, the autobiography of his childhood. A graduate of Gettysburg College\, he lives in Pennsylvania with his wife\, poet and author Eileen Spinelli.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-jerry-spinelli-dead-wednesday/
CATEGORIES:Free
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