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SUMMARY:Rosalyn Learns How to Misbehave: A Zoom Puppet Story
DESCRIPTION:Ramon Abad and the Bindlestiff Studio Puppet Crew present a KID-FRIENDLY live stream puppet performance with about 9 artists/storytellers via Zoom. Celebrate this fun-filled afternoon with the whole family and kids 5-11 years old in our own home! \nThis event will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube and other social media platforms. By registering at the link above\, you agree to the possibility of appearing on this recording by virtue of attending or participating in the event. \nPresented by the API Cultural Center- San Francisco as part of the United States of Asian America Festival 2020: FINDING KINSHIP. #USAAF2020 #FINDINGKINSHIP \nWith funding and support from San Francisco Arts Commission\, SF Grants for the Arts\, California Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosalyn-learns-how-to-misbehave-a-zoom-puppet-story/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Marianne Ingheim - Out of Love
DESCRIPTION:We all tell ourselves stories about who we are. Many of these stories are self-critical and disempowering. Through the practice of self-compassion\, we can rewrite these stories and become more authentic and powerful versions of ourselves—transforming not only our own lives but also the lives of those around us. \nIn short and personal pieces\, Marianne Ingheim tells the story of how the practice of self-compassion has changed her life in ways big and small\, helping her unlearn harsh self-criticism\, survive multiple tragedies\, and live more authentically. In the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis and her husband’s suicide\, she discovers the power of self-compassionate storytelling and finds belonging within herself—and in doing so\, she learns how to manage anxiety and stress\, how to be authentic in relationships\, and how to let go of comparison and be truly creative. \nThrough stories and journaling prompts\, Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion aims to inspire readers to unlearn the self-critical patterns holding them hostage—and begin to live a happier\, more courageous life. \nMarianne Ingheim is a Danish-Norwegian American writer\, teacher\, and PhD student at California Institute of Integral Studies. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information\, please visit www.marianneingheim.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marianne-ingheim-out-of-love/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:presents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, June 6\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering\n\n\npresents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, June 6\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering\nfeaturing\n\n\nBonnie Tsui\n(Why We Swim; American Chinatown; Writing Action)\n\n“An enthusiastic and thoughtful work mixing history\, journalism\, and elements of memoir… We’ll never be the fish\, Tsui reminds us. ‘But we get glimpses of what it’s like to be the fish. We get flashes of forgetting the water.’ How glorious.” — The New York Times Book Review\n\n \nA Boston Globe bestseller and Best Book of the Season: Amazon\, Buzzfeed\, Bustle\, The San Francisco Chronicle\n\nBonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine. She has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University\, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award\, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods\, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Bonnie has also performed numerous times at Pop-Up Magazine and other live storytelling events. She helped to launch F&B: Voices from the Kitchen\, a storytelling project from La Cocina that shares stories from cooks and kitchens that are less often heard. She is also her first children’s book\, Sarah & the Big Wave\, about big-wave women surfers; it will be published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers in spring 2021.\n\nMeng Jin\n(Little Gods)\n“Meng Jin’s beautiful debut novel is ambitious in the best ways: meticulously observed\, daringly imagined\, rich in character and history. Ranging across continents\, cultures and generations\, Jin poses profound questions: how might we know ourselves\, or the people we love? And what truths\, if any\, travel with us?” — Claire Messud\n \n“If the mark of a good novel is its ability to delicately rewire the reader’s brain\, then Meng Jin has given us a very good novel….Little Gods is a page-turner—but all the while it winks\, reminding us that possible explanations in our universe are as varied as the beings who populate it.” — The Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n\nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.\nAlia Volz\n(Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco)\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.” —Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\nAlia Volz is the author of the new memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, spring 2020). She’s a homegrown San Franciscan. Her work has been published in The Best American Essays 2017\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Threepenny Review\, Salon\, and many other places. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. Alia has received fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation and has twice been awarded the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She was runner-up of The MOTH’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014.\n\n\nTomas Moniz\n(Big Familia; Rad Dad; Collaboration/Colaboración)\n\n“A quiet\, thoughtful story about coming-of-age at middle age. . . . With his first novel\, poet Moniz tells a story that is simultaneously timeless and quite timely. . . . Characters deal with and talk about racism and homophobia\, gentrification and police brutality. These are some of the challenges they endure as they navigate universally human experiences like connection\, community\, birth\, and death. . . . Diverse characters and a deeply likable protagonist make this a standout debut.” — Starred Review\, Kirkus Reviews\n\n\n\nTomas Moniz edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He’s recently been published by Barrelhouse and Longleaf Review. In July 2019\, he released a chapbook\, All Friends Are Necessary\, with Mason Jar Press and his debut novel\, Big Familia\, on Acre Books (which received a STARRED Kirkus review)\, in November 2019. Big Familia was a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award\, a Finalist for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a Finalist for the Foreword Review Indies Award.\n\nwith music from\n  \nArt Elliot\n(Hello; Goodbye; Earth Abides)\nArt Elliot sings of apocalyptic futures\, lost loves\, ice ages and Depression-era folk art\, among other topics. Born the second son of a carpenter and a singer during the height of The Catastrophe™\, Elliot took to his iron horse and rode west at the age of 22. Art has collaborated with a few of the well-known troubadours of Sector 6 including Larry Gallagher\, The Dirty Snacks Ensemble\, Jack O’ the Clock\, and Eli Wise. He currently dwells deep underground in a bunker near what was once known as Oakland\, California.\n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-5/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Catamaran Summer 2020 Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event celebrating the Summer 2020 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post.  \nThis event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-catamaran-summer-2020-issue-launch/
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SUMMARY:Kathy Evans - Trespassers Welcome
DESCRIPTION:Kathy Evans’s full-length debut\, Trespassers Welcome\, is an extravaganza of imaginative leaps\, bounds\, and deep dives\, a worldwide web of seemingly unlikely but delightfully believable connections—from the everyday to the unexpected. Her work is profoundly playful and playfully profound–no mean feat in these parlous times. \nKathy Evans\, a Marin County resident\, just recently released her latest poetry collection\, Trespassers Welcome\, from Bluelight Press. She is the author of three other books of poetry\, including Hunger and Sorrow\, which won the Small Press Poetry prize\, and was Artist-in-Residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts.  She has brought poetry into classrooms all over the Bay Area and is currently poet-in-residence at The Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francsico and Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathy-evans-trespassers-welcome/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Wayétu Moore and The Dragons\, the Giant\, the Women
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Museum of the African Diaspora \nWhen Wayétu Moore turns five years old\, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia\, Liberia\, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother\, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her\, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot\, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally\, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone\, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey\, this time to the United States. \nSpanning this harrowing journey in Moore’s early childhood\, her years adjusting to life in Texas as a black woman and an immigrant\, and her eventual return to Liberia\, The Dragons\, the Giant\, the Women is a deeply moving story of the search for home in the midst of upheaval. Moore has a novelist’s eye for suspense and emotional depth\, and this unforgettable memoir is full of imaginative\, lyrical flights and lush prose. In capturing both the hazy magic and stark realities of what is becoming an increasingly pervasive experience\, Moore shines a light on the great political and personal forces that continue to affect many migrants around the world\, and calls us all to acknowledge the tenacious power of love and family. Wayétu will be in converation with author and professor Faith Adiele. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nWayétu Moore\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nFaith Adiele\nFaith Adiele’s work includes The Nigerian Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems; Meeting Faith\, a memoir about becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun; My Journey Home\, a PBS documentary about finding family in Nigeria; and Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-wayetu-moore-and-the-dragons-the-giant-the-women/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Minna Salami / Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host Minna Salami for her new book of essays\, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. Please note the early start time of 12pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nSensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves\, our history\, and our world. \nWhat does it mean to be oppressed?\nWhat does it mean to be liberated?\nWhy do women choose to follow authority even when they can be autonomous?\nWhat is the cost of compromising one’s true self?\nWhat narratives particularly subjugate women and people of African heritage?\nWhat kind of narrative can heal and empower? \nAs she considers these questions\, Salami offers fresh insights on key cultural issues that impact women’s lives\, including power\, beauty\, and knowledge. She also examines larger subjects\, such as Afrofuturism\, radical Black feminism\, and gender politics\, all with a historical outlook that is also future oriented. Combining a storyteller’s narrative playfulness and a social critic’s intellectual rigor\, Salami draws upon a range of traditions and ideologies\, feminist theory\, popular culture — including insights from Ms. Lauryn Hill\, Beyoncé\, Audre Lorde\, Toni Morrison\, and others — science\, philosophy\, African myths and origin stories\, and her own bold personal narrative to establish a language for change and self-liberation. \nSensuous Knowledge inspires reflection and challenge us to formulate or own views. Using ancestral knowledge to steer us toward freedom\, Salami reveals the ways that women have protested over the years in large and small ways — models that inspire and empower us to define our own sense of womanhood today. \nIn this riveting meditation\, Salami asks women to break free of the prison made by ingrained male centric biases\, and build a house themselves — a home that can nurture us all. \n\nMinna Salami is Nigerian\, Finnish\, and Swedish author\, blogger\, and social critic\, and international keynote speaker. She is the founder of the multiple award-winning blog\, MsAfropolitan\, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centered perspective. Listed by Elle Magazine as “one of twelve women changing the world” alongside Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama\, Minna has presented talks on feminism\, liberation\, decolonization\, sexuality\, African Studies\, and popular culture to audiences at the European Parliament\, the Oxford Union\, Yale University\, TEDx\, The Singularity University at NASA\, and UN Women. She is a contributor to The Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, and the Royal Society of the Arts\, and a columnist for the Guardian Nigeria. She lives in London. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Sensuous Knowledge sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-minna-salami-sensuous-knowledge-a-black-feminist-approach-for-everyone-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Well-RED: Doren Robbins and Sharon Olson
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 9\, 7pm on Zoom\nDoren Robbins and Sharon Olson \nopen mic follows \nonline on Zoom\nFree\, register on Eventbrite! \npresented with Works/San José \nTypically featured at Works/San José art and performance center\, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp! \nFirst 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password. \nEach open mic participant has 5 minutes. \nSharon Olson is a Stanford graduate\, with an M.L.S. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. She worked as a librarian from 1978 to 2007 at the Palo Alto City Library\, and was a long-standing member of the Palo Alto poetry group Waverley Writers. Her publications include a chapbook Clouds Brushed in Later\, which won the Abby Niebauer Memorial Chapbook Award (presented by the Poetry Center San José in 1987)\, and two full-length books of poetry\, The Long Night of Flying (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2006) and Will There Be Music? (Cherry Grove Collections\, 2019). Her poems have appeared in many journals including Off the Coast\, String Poet\, Arroyo Literary Review\, The Curator\, Adanna\, Heron Tree\, New Verse News and Cider Press Review. She has published (with co-author Chris Schopfer) numerous articles about the Sandford family of New Jersey in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. Since 2008 she and her husband have lived on the East Coast\, currently in Lawrenceville\, New Jersey\, where she is a member of the U.S. 1 Poets Collective and performs with Cool Women Poets. She is also affiliated with the Scriven Arts Colony in Gilmanton\, New Hampshire\, and the Guilford Poets Guild in Guilford\, Connecticut\, which interviewed her recently in April\, 2020. See more information at her blog: https://slopoet.blogspot.com. \nDoren Robbins is a poet\, mixed media artist\, literary critic and composer of poetic prose monologues. His work has appeared in many publications\, including The American Poetry Review\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Third Rail: international literature and arts\, Angry Old Man\, Another Chicago Magazine\, Café Irreal\, Cimarron Review\, Empty Mirror\, Exquisite Corpse\, Kayak\, 5 AM\, Hotel Amerika\, The Indiana Review\, New Letters\, Nimrod\, Otoliths\, Sulfur\, and The Iowa Review. Past collections of his poetry\, Driving Face Down and My Piece of the Puzzle were awarded the Blue Lynx Poetry Award 2001 and the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award\, respectively. His book Twin Extra: A Poem In Three Parts (Wild Ocean Press 2015) was nominated for the National Jewish Book Council Award in Poetry. In 2020 Spuyten Duyvil Press published his monograph\, Apocalypse Contemporary\, on Sharon Doubiago’s book Naked to the Earth; and highmoonoon books published Not Fade Away: Poetic Prose Monologues\, Three Sequences. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Foothill College. \n“These are remarkable\, fiery poems. Poems that would urge any poet on\, language that tears open reality. I think this is Doren Robbins’s finest book\, and I’ve admired his work for a good while. The imagination\, its energy and precision\, is immense. There’s a delicate observation of even the rawest materials\, a tenderness for humanity in all its cruelty\, stupidity\, and often invisible dignity and grace\, that feels to me like his peculiar\, original contribution to–well\, to the puzzle of what we have become: people\, Americans\, men and women today\, above all those who are “absent\,” unregistered\, undocumented in both senses.” -Adrienne Rich
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-doren-robbins-and-sharon-olson/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch
DESCRIPTION:With Melanie Abrams and Andrew Altschul. \nVia Facebook Live: facebook.com/booksmith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-the-booksmith-lockdown-lit-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Charis Book Store of Decatur\, GA hosts a virtual event celebrating Julian Bond w/Michael Long and Pamela Horowitz!
DESCRIPTION:Register ahead of time at here! Charis Bookstore hosts a virtual event with Michael Long\, editor of Race Man\, and Pamela Horowitz\, who worked in partnership with her late husband\, Julian Bond\, on multiple public\, private\, and academic projects\, including an annual civil rights tour of the South and projects involving the NAACP and the SPLC. Michael Long joins us from his home in Lower Allen Township in Pennsylvania\, while Pamela Horowitz joins us from her home in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charis-book-store-of-decatur-ga-hosts-a-virtual-event-celebrating-julian-bond-w-michael-long-and-pamela-horowitz/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200609T200000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Worley
DESCRIPTION:Book Release Party for \nNeon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power \nby Jennifer Worley \nfrom Harper Collins \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————- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n————- \nBooks for this event may be purchased at this link: \n>Purchase NEON GIRLS here< \n————– \nA riveting true story of a young woman’s days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms. \nWhen graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money\, she found herself at the door of the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco\, auditioning on a stage surrounded by mirrors\, in platform heels\, and not much else. So began Jenny’s career as a stripper strutting the peepshow stage as her alter-ego “Polly” alongside women called Octopussy and Amnesia. But this wasn’t your run-of-the-mill strip club—it was a peepshow populated by free-thinking women who talked feminist theory and swapped radical zines like lipstick. \nAs management’s discriminatory practices and the rise of hidden cameras stir up tension among the dancers\, Jenny rallies them to demand change. Together\, they organize the first strippers’ union in the world and risk it all to take over the club and run it as a co-operative. Refusing to be treated as sex objects or disposable labor\, they become instead the rulers of their kingdom. Jenny’s elation over the Lusty Lady’s revolution is tempered by her evolving understanding of the toll dancing has taken on her. When she finally hangs up her heels for good to finish her Ph.D.\, neither Jenny nor San Francisco are the same—but she and the cadre of wild\, beautiful\, brave women who run the Lusty Lady come out on top despite it all. \nA first-hand account as only an insider could tell it\, Neon Girls paints a vivid picture of a bygone San Francisco and a fiercely feminist world within the sex industry\, asking sharp questions about what keeps women from fighting for their rights\, who benefits from capitalizing on desire\, and how we can change entrenched systems of power. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-worley/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Carter Sickels - The Prettiest Star
DESCRIPTION:Small-town Appalachia doesn’t have a lot going for it\, but it’s where Brian is from\, where his family is\, and where he’s chosen to return to die. \nAt eighteen\, Brian\, like so many other promising young gay men\, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years\, AIDS would claim his lover\, his friends\, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death\, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place\, and family\, he was once so desperate to escape. \nSet in 1986\, a year after Rock Hudson’s death shifted the public consciousness of the epidemic and brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America\, The Prettiest Star is an urgent story about the politics and fragility of the body\, about sex and shame. And it is a novel that speaks to the question of what home and family means when we try to forge a life for ourselves in a world that can be harsh and unpredictable. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding\, and zeroes in on the moments where those two forces reach for each other\, and sometimes touch. \nCarter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award\, and has been awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, VCCA\, and the MacDowell Colony. His essays and fiction have appeared in various publications\, including Guernica\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and BuzzFeed\, and he is the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage\, Relationships & Identity. Carter is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University\, where he teaches in the Bluegrass Writers Studio Low-Residency MFA program. He lives in Lexington\, Kentucky.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carter-sickels-the-prettiest-star/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:International Thrills: #1 Scandinavian Bestseller Lars Kepler in conversation with Jesse Kellerman
DESCRIPTION:The blockbuster Swedish suspense phenomenon Lars Kepler\, famed for the #1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series\, is actually two people: husband-and-wife duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril. Their first book\, 2009’s mega-bestselling The Hypnotist\, stirred up intrigue beyond its own riveting pages\, as the media frantically sleuthed to uncover Lars Kepler’s real identity: a secret finally revealed at a press conference that became Sweden’s biggest story of that summer. Both halves of this dynamic duo were already acclaimed authors before they joined forces\, but as a crime-fiction team\, they’ve sold millions of copies in 40 languages. Come for a rare\, fascinating look behind the curtain of this powerhouse literary couple’s creative process\, as they share the ins and outs of creating ghoulishly razor-sharp fiction as a team\, the origins of their most iconic characters and storylines\, and the artistic freedom that comes from collaboration.  Moderated by Jesse Kellerman\, no stranger to collaboration himself\, having co-written New York Times bestselling crime novels—praised as “brilliant\, page-turning fiction” by Stephen King—with his father\, Jonathan Kellerman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/international-thrills-1-scandinavian-bestseller-lars-kepler-in-conversation-with-jesse-kellerman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Oakland Voices Tonight: Cat Brooks on Race\, Policing\, and COVID
DESCRIPTION:Join Oakland Voices for a conversation about COVID-19\, policing\, and inequality in Oakland. This weeks’ guest is Cat Brooks\, executive director of Justice Teams Network and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. Rasheed Shabazz of Oakland Voices hosts. \nCat Brooks is KPFA co-host of UpFront and a long-time performer\, organizer\, and activist. She played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant\, and spent the last decade working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ways our communities are policed and incarcerated. She is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and the Executive Director of The Justice Teams Network. Cat was also a mayoral candidate in Oakland’s 2018 election\, facing incumbent Libby Schaaf. \nRegister: http://bit.ly/ovweb-0609
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-voices-tonight-cat-brooks-on-race-policing-and-covid/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200609T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200609T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Laurie R. King\, Riviera Gold
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for an online event with beloved bestselling author Laurie R. King\, who will will celebrate the publication of her newest Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mystery\, Riviera Gold. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nIt’s summertime on the Riviera\, and the Jazz Age has come to France’s once-sleepy beaches. As American expatriates begin to drift down from Paris\, their villas fill with the music and merriment of their generation’s most creative minds. From those ocean-view terraces\, they also gaze along the coastline at the lights of a more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo\, where fortunes are won\, lost\, stolen\, and sometimes hidden away. When Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes happen across the Côte d’Azur\, they find their partnership similarly pulled\, between youthful pleasures and old sins\, hot sun and cool jazz\, new affections and enduring loyalties. \nRussell falls into easy friendship with an enthralling American couple\, Sara and Gerald Murphy\, whose golden life on the Riviera has begun to attract famous writers and artists—and some of the scoundrels linked with Monte Carlo’s underworld. The Murphy set will go on to inspire everyone from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Pablo Picasso\, but in this summer of 1925\, their importance for Russell lies in one of their circle’s recent additions: none other than the Holmeses’ former housekeeper\, Mrs. Hudson\, who hasn’t been seen since she fled England under a cloud of false murder accusations. \nWhen a beautiful young man is found dead in Mrs. Hudson’s front room\, she becomes the prime suspect in yet another murder. Russell is certain that Mrs. Hudson is innocent; Holmes is not quite so sure. But the old woman’s colorful past has been a source of tension between them before this\, and now\, the dangerous players who control Monte Carlo’s gilded casinos may stop at nothing to keep the pair away from the dark corners that Mrs. Hudson’s youthful history could bring to light. \nThe Riviera in 1925 is a playground for the rich built on corruption and greed. It is a place where treasure can be false\, where love can destroy\, and where life\, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes will discover\, can be cheap—even when it is made of solid gold. \nLaurie R. King is the award-winning\, bestselling author of sixteen Mary Russell mysteries\, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli\, the Stuyvesant & Grey novels Touchstone and The Bones of Paris\, and acclaimed standalone novels Folly and Lockdown. She lives in Northern California\, where she is at work on her next Mary Russell mystery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-laurie-r-king-riviera-gold/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200609T210000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and\, most recently\, The Mars Room\, which was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Award\, winner of the Prix Médicis\, selected by the National Book Foundation for its “Literature for Justice” award\, and a winner of the California Book Award. She has received grants and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nHeidi Julavits is the founding editor of Believer magazine\, and the author of four novels\, including The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, McSweeney’s\, Zoetrope All-Story and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner-in-conversation-with-heidi-julavits/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Scalzi And Sarah Gailey For Dark Carnival
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature John Scalzi and Sarah Gailey\, reading and having a conversation. \nJohn Scalzi’s latest novel is The Last Emperox. Scalzi won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer\, the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel for Redshirts\, and his debut novel Old Man’s War was a finalist for Hugo Award as well. \nHugo Award Winner and Bestselling author Sarah Gailey is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe\, and they won a Hugo award for Best Fan Writer. Their most recent fiction credits include Vice and The Atlantic. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Dark Carnival. Shop online now! \n\nJune 10 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-scalzi-and-sarah-gailey-for-dark-carnival/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Molly Ball in conversation with Carla Marinucci / Pelosi
DESCRIPTION:Molly Ball\, National Political Correspondent at Time Magazine and Author of “Pelosi”\nIn Conversation with Carla Marinucci\, Senior Writer of Politico’s California Playbook \nPart of our Good Lit series\, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation. \nHow did an Italian grandmother in 4-inch heels become the greatest legislator since LBJ? Join us virtually as award-winning political journalist Molly Ball takes you inside the life and times of the speaker of the House. Based on exclusive interviews and deep background reporting\, Ball shows Nancy Pelosi through a thoroughly modern lens\, explaining how this extraordinary woman has met her moment by taking on a president and defending democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections\, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. \nIt’s a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the Right and taken for granted by many in her own party even though\, as speaker under President Barack Obama\, she deserves credit for epochal liberal accomplishments\, from reforming Wall Street to allowing gay people to serve openly in the military\, from universal access to health care to saving the U.S. economy from collapse. Perhaps twice. \nTime: 3pm PDT \nNOTES\nMLF: Humanities \nThis is a free program; please consider making a donation during checkout \nThis event is online-only; register to receive a link to the live stream
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-ball-in-conversation-with-carla-marinucci-pelosi/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200610T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Megha Majumdar and Marie-Helene Bertino
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on June 10th at 5:00pm PDT for Megha Majumdar and Marie-Helene Bertino discussing their new novels A Burning and Parakeet. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81009460458 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81009460458#  or +12532158782\,\,81009460458#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 810 0946 0458\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcRn90Fx7 \nPraise for A Burning \n“A BURNING is an excellently crafted\, utterly thrilling novel full of characters that I won’t soon forget.  Megha Majumdar writes about the ripple effects of our choices\, the interconnectedness of our humanity\, with striking beauty and clarity. A stunning debut.”—Yaa Gyasi \n“This is a novel of now: a beautifully constructed literary thriller from a rare and powerful new voice.”—Colum McCann \nAbout A Burning \nFor readers of Tommy Orange\, Yaa Gyasi\, and Jhumpa Lahiri\, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise–to the middle class\, to political power\, to fame in the movies–and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. \nJivan is a Muslim girl from the slums\, determined to move up in life\, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party\, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan’s fall. Lovely–an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humor–has the alibi that can set Jivan free\, but it will cost her everything she holds dear. \nTaut\, symphonic\, propulsive\, and riveting from its opening lines\, A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed it can be read in a single sitting. Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance at a breakneck pace on complex themes that read here as the components of a thriller: class\, fate\, corruption\, justice\, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism. An extraordinary debut. \nPraise for Parakeet \n“Marie-Helene Bertino’s fiction is miraculous: spry and mordant\, with sentences that lull you with their rhythms\, then twist suddenly and sting. Parakeet is a strange book in the greatest sense: it sunders reality in sudden transformations and slippages\, in the depth of its aches\, in the beauty it insists upon in the face of violence\, and in the powerful joy that Bertino dowses deep under the surface of even the bleakest moments of her characters’ lives.”\n—Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Marie-Helene Bertino is an expert in breaking a heart so cleanly that it releases actual magic. Give up your idea of what a book is allowed to be\, and she will show you the whole quivering universe.”\n—Mira Jacob\, author of Good Talk \n“Marie-Helene Bertino is one of my favorite writers working today\, and her latest is one rare gem of a novel. In Bertino’s hands\, anything seems possible\, from a dead grandmother returning in the form of a bird to finding unexpected wonder in our strange and broken world\, profound redemptions of the heart. Parakeet enchants and enthralls.”\n—Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \nAbout Parakeet \nAcclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino’s Parakeet is a darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one. \nThe week of her wedding\, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes\, her dubious expression\, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? \nHer grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow\, The Bride’s march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented\, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried. \nA novel that does justice to the hectic confusion of becoming a woman today\, Parakeet asks and begins to answer the essential questions. How do our memories make\, cage\, and free us? How do we honor our experiences and still become our strongest\, truest selves? Who are we responsible for\, what do we owe them\, and how do we allow them to change? \nUrgent\, strange\, warm-hearted\, and sly\, Parakeet is ribboned with joy\, fear\, and an inextricable thread of real love. It is a startling\, unforgettable\, life-embracing exploration of self and connection.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-megha-majumdar-and-marie-helene-bertino/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Alvin Orloff\, Beth Lisick and K.M.Soehnlein
DESCRIPTION:Our Summer On the Same Page author Alvin Orloff\nwill be in conversation with Beth Lisick and K.M. Soehnlein. \nAlvin Orloff\, Bay Area native and 2020 Lambda Literary Awards finalist for best Gay Memoir\, is our On the Same Page selected author for his book Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997 (Three Rooms Press). Disasterama! is a fun\, raunchy\, hilarious and painful coming of age memoir. One cannot speak of gay counterculture in the 1980s and not be ingrained in AIDS crisis and the loss of life which ensued. Alvin does this with honest emotion and humor. Opening with teenage Orloff in search of acceptance\, love\, but mostly sex—he finds Michael Joseph Collins who becomes his infatuation\, creative partner\, bandmate in The Popstitutes\, love and friend. \nReservation required: https://bit.ly/DisasteramaAuthorTalk \nGet the book today at Dog Eared Books. Call between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every weekday at (415) 282-1901 or order online: https://bookshop.org/shop/dogearedbooksvalencia
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-alvin-orloff-beth-lisick-and-k-m-soehnlein/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200610T190000
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SUMMARY:ALEXANDRA PETRI presents NOTHING IS WRONG AND HERE IS WHY: ESSAYS
DESCRIPTION:In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. \nIn essays both new and adapted from her viral Post columns\, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. Q-Anon makes perfect sense! Perhaps the abyss is staring back at you because your outfit looks extra nice today! At the center of the book is a virtuosic account of the past four years\, a history as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. This Panglossian venture into the swampy present will soothe— and terrify — readers who have died laughing to ClickHole\, the Onion\, Stephen Colbert\, Jon Stewart\, or Veep. \n—– \nAlexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post. She lives in Washington DC. \nPlease note: \n​Doors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-petri-presents-nothing-is-wrong-and-here-is-why-essays/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Nerd Nite is part of ReedPop’s Sea Week on June 10\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:We’re holding a virtual water-themed Nerd Nite on Wednesday June 10\, 2020 at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT as part of ReedPop’s Sea Week. ReedPop\, the team behind pop culture conventions such as New York Comic Con and Star Wars Celebration is creating Sea Week to share a whole fun smattering of virtual pop culture events all week featuring watch parties\, trivia\, celebrities\, and more. Join us for two funny-yet-smart presentations about the cultural impact of SharkNado and the weird\, wonderful world of mangroves. Watch live at 7pm on June 10 at http://www.facebook.com/nerdnite \nBack To The Lectures At-Hand:\n*Presentation #1\nOh Hell No: The Cultural Impact of SharkNado \nby David Shiffman\, Ph.D. \nDescription: Sharks: so hot right now! Sharks are in\, and one of the best examples of this is a whole genre of bad shark movies. In this genre\, the SharkNado franchise stands head and pectoral fins above competitors like Sharktopus\, avalanche sharks (“snow is just frozen water\,”) and six-headed shark attack. In this talk\, Dr. David Shiffman will discuss the history of bad shark movies\, with a focus on SharkNado and the incredible impact it had on pop culture and even public discourse. \nBio: Dr. David Shiffman is a marine conservation biologist who studies sharks. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post\, Scientific American\, Slate\, Gizmodo\, and a monthly column in SCUBA diving magazine. David is an award-winning public science communicator who invites you to follow him on twitter\, Instagram\, and Facebook @ WhysharksMatter\, where he’s always happy to answer any questions anyone has about sharks. In the interest of full disclosure\, David has asked us to inform you that SharkNado 2 is thanked in his Ph.D. dissertation because it funded some of his research. He has presented at Nerd Nite Miami\, Nerd Nite Vancouver\, and Nerd Nite DC. \n*Presentation #2\nMagnificent Mangroves: Adaptations\, Biodiversity\, and Outlook \nby Tyler Wintermute \nDescription: From their unique adaptations to their benefits to biodiversity\, mangroves are marvels of estuarine ecosystems. With a global distribution\, these plants are ubiquitous in the tropics\, but unfortunately\, they face many threats that should be concerning to the denizens of the 43rd parallel north (and the rest of the world). So bundle (your vascular tissues) up\, prop (root) yourself in a chair\, and join us as we absorb the waves of mangrove knowledge! \nPresenter Bio: A native of Northern Virginia\, Tyler is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Botany at UW-Madison\, and while his true passion are the trees of the people (Populus species\, a.k.a. cottonwoods\, aspens\, and poplars) and their chemical ecology\, he is fascinated and inspired by the life history of mangroves and their benefits to other biota. In his spare time\, he enjoys exploring swamps\, watching sports\, and playing board-games. And taking care of plants. Lots of plants.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nerd-nite-is-part-of-reedpops-sea-week-on-june-10-2020/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Laurie R. King - Riviera Gold
DESCRIPTION:t’s summertime on the Riviera\, and the Jazz Age has come to France’s once-sleepy beaches. As American expatriates begin to drift down from Paris\, their villas fill with the music and merriment of their generation’s most creative minds. From those ocean-view terraces\, they also gaze along the coastline at the lights of a more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo\, where fortunes are won\, lost\, stolen\, and sometimes hidden away. When Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes happen across the Côte d’Azur\, they find their partnership similarly pulled\, between youthful pleasures and old sins\, hot sun and cool jazz\, new affections and enduring loyalties. \nRussell falls into easy friendship with an enthralling American couple\, Sara and Gerald Murphy\, whose golden life on the Riviera has begun to attract famous writers and artists—and some of the scoundrels linked with Monte Carlo’s underworld. The Murphy set will go on to inspire everyone from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Pablo Picasso\, but in this summer of 1925\, their importance for Russell lies in one of their circle’s recent additions: none other than the Holmeses’ former housekeeper\, Mrs. Hudson\, who hasn’t been seen since she fled England under a cloud of false murder accusations. \nWhen a beautiful young man is found dead in Mrs. Hudson’s front room\, she becomes the prime suspect in yet another murder. Russell is certain that Mrs. Hudson is innocent; Holmes is not quite so sure. But the old woman’s colorful past has been a source of tension between them before this\, and now\, the dangerous players who control Monte Carlo’s gilded casinos may stop at nothing to keep the pair away from the dark corners that Mrs. Hudson’s youthful history could bring to light. \nThe Riviera in 1925 is a playground for the rich built on corruption and greed. It is a place where treasure can be false\, where love can destroy\, and where life\, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes will discover\, can be cheap—even when it is made of solid gold. \nLaurie R. King is the award-winning\, bestselling author of sixteen Mary Russell mysteries\, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli\, the Stuyvesant & Grey novels Touchstone and The Bones of Paris\, and acclaimed standalone novels Folly and Lockdown. She lives in Northern California\, where she is at work on her next Mary Russell mystery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-r-king-riviera-gold/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200610T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200610T223000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093310
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SUMMARY:Black Artists Showcase ft. Meccamorphosis
DESCRIPTION:THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST!\nBringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999\, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam! \nhttp://berkeleyslam.org/\nhttps://twitter.com/berkeleyslam\nInstagram: @berkeleyslam\nhttps://www.patreon.com/berkeleyslam \n—————�————-\nWelcome to another show! Show some love to our feature\, Meccamorphosis! We are also raising funds for the Okra Project alongside Greetings from Queer Mountain (https://www.theokraproject.com/) and need your help to reach our goal of $540! \nMeccamorphosis is an author\, actress\, teaching artist and poet. Mecca first garnished national attention after winning Brave New Voices\, an international youth poetry slam. Since then Mecca has been traveling the country performing\, teaching and building upon the intersection of activism and art. Mecca is an incredible voice for Black women everywhere. \nWe will be hosting a writing workshop on Zoom at 7pm. The code for this workshop is 829 9882 7381. Get a prompt from the feature and meet other writers! \nFor more about Mecca\, check out Mecca’s website at https://meccamorphosis.squarespace.com/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-artists-showcase-ft-meccamorphosis/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093310
CREATED:20200609T172550Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit Livestream 1 - Thea Matthews w/ David Williams
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit and Light Rail Station are teaming up for a series of livestream readings through June. For our first event we’re hosting poet Thea Matthews\, whose debut collection of poems\, Unearth [The Flowers]\, comes out June 20. Accompanying her musically is David Williams\, who has appeared on more than 20 albums (six of them his own). The event will be hosted by comedian Luna Malbroux\, who will be taking questions from the audience. \nPhoto by Christina Campbell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-livestream-1-thea-matthews-w-david-williams/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093310
CREATED:20200514T014208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T014208Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Alka Joshi and The Henna Artist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this vivid and compelling evening with Alka Joshi\, author of The Henna Artist\, the May selection for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club. Tune in at 6pm Pacific time and learn why Publishers Weekly calls this novel “eloquent and moving\,” while Christian Science Monitor highlights its “vibrant characters\, evocative imagery\, and sumptuous prose.” \nA portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern\, The Henna Artist takes readers on a journey through 1950s Indian culture\, a world that is at once lush and fascinating\, stark and cruel. Escaping from an abusive marriage\, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante—to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy\, she can never reveal her own. Alka Joshi reads from and discusses her book\, with bestselling author Tom Barbash. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nTom Barbash\nTom Barbash is the author of five books\, including Dakota Winters. His short story collection Stay Up With Me was nominated for the Folio Prize and picked as a Best Book of the Year by the Independent of London\, NPR\,  San Francisco Chronicle\, and San Jose Mercury News. His novel The… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlka Joshi\nAlka Joshi was born in India and raised in the U.S. since the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts and runs an advertising and marketing agency. She has lived in France and Italy and currently lives in Pacific Grove\, California… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-alka-joshi-and-the-henna-artist/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T200000
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SUMMARY:Write From The Gut at SFPL Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck presents Poem Jam as it makes its debut as an online forum. Kim hands the keys to the car over to the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute’s Session Showcase: an evening of work developed by the school’s students over the Spring\, including readings from faculty and the students in classes taught by Hollie Hardy\, Alexandra Kostoulas\, Kim Shuck\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Preeti Vangani\, Caitlin Krause\, Paul Corman-Roberts. \nMore info at SF Public Library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-from-the-gut-at-sfpl-poem-jam/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093310
CREATED:20200602T055422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200602T055422Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket Weekly : Black Girl Magic w/ Yodassa Williams
DESCRIPTION:THE RACKET WEEKLY: BLACK GIRL MAGIC w/ YODASSA WILLIAMS. \nTHURSDAY\, JUNE 11TH\, 7PM / ZOOM LINK TO COME \nThis week we are celebrating Yodassa Williams\, the release of her new book THE GODDESS TWINS (SparkPress) and her Black Girl Magic Virtual Book Tour with The Racket Weekly: BLACK GIRL MAGIC. Yodassa will be reading from her book and we’ve invited an amazing group of Black femme identifying writers to join in the fun. \nDoors at 7. Show at 7:15. \nThe Readers: \nYodassa Williams\nNazelah Jamison\nRochelle Spencer\nKelechi Ubozoh\nLis Owuor
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-weekly-black-girl-magic-w-yodassa-williams/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T210000
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CREATED:20200602T212155Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Juli Delgado Lopera in conversation with Daniel Handler / Fiebre Tropical
DESCRIPTION:Are you still bummed we had to postpone the launch party for Juli Delgado Lopera and their debut novel\, Fiebre Tropical? Us too! But be bummed no longer and join us for a virtual event\, in conversation with Daniel Handler (Bottle Grove). \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nUprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá\, Colombia\, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse\, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church\, replete with Christian salsa\, abstinent young dancers\, and baptisms for the dead. \nBut there\, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic\, head of the youth group\, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism\, Francisca falls more and more intensely in love with Carmen. To get closer to her\, Francisca turns to Jesus to be saved\, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. \n\n“Fiebre Tropical is a literary explosion. In a rollicking\, multilingual prose both wise and irreverent\, brimming with snark and queer humor\, Juliana Delgado Lopera crafts a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \n“A magnificent novel\, by turns electric\, hilarious\, sexy\, thrilling\, wrenching\, and profound. Pa decirlo clarito: Juliana Delgado Lopera is a writer of explosive talent\, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution\, yes\, to queer literature\, Latinx literature\, and immigrant literature\, but also to literature\, punto.” –Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“When you drive around town\, when you stare out the window\, when you wake up in the middle of the night\, whether you know it or not\, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph\, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” – Daniel Handler\, author of All the Dirty Parts \n\nJuli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco. They are the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and the illustrated\, bilingual oral history collection ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute Books 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. They are the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary Award\, and have received fellowships from the Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Mag\, among others. Formerly\, they served as the creative director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary nonprofit in San Francisco. \n  \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nTo have Fiebre Tropical sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-juli-delgado-lopera-in-conversation-with-daniel-handler-fiebre-tropical/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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