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SUMMARY:Launch Event for American Geography in Honor of Barry Lopez
DESCRIPTION:Radius Books and The Green Arcade invite you to join Sandra S. Phillips\, Debra Gwartney\, Toby Jurovics\, and Beverly Dahlen to celebrate the launch of AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LAND USE FROM 1840 TO THE PRESENT\, including live readings of recent work from Robert Adams and Barry Lopez.\n\nBooks signed by Sandra Phillips can be ordered from The Green Arcade’s Online Shop: www.TheGreenArcade.com \n\nHere is the link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q5YOD4eKT12vqHqyW534EA\n\nDrawing primarily from the vast permanent collection of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, American Geography charts a visual history of land use in the United States.\n\n\nFrom the earliest photographic records of human habitation to the latest aerial and digital imagery\, from nearly uninhabited desert and isolated mountainous territories to suburban sprawl and densely populated cities\, this compilation offers an increasingly nuanced perspective on the American landscape. \nDivided by region\, these photographs address ways in which different histories and traditions of land use have given rise to different cultural transitions: from the Midwestern prairies and agricultural traditions of the South\, to the riverine systems in the Northeast\, and the environmental challenges and riches of the far West. \nAmerican Geography provides a complex\, thought-provoking survey featuring work from Robert Adams\, Dawoud Bey\, Barbara Bosworth\, Debbie Fleming Caffery\, William Eggleston\, Mitch Epstein\, Terry Evans\, LaToya Ruby Frazier\, Emmet Gowin\, Lee Friedlander\, Dorothea Lange\, An-My Lê\, Trevor Paglen\, Wendy Red Star\, Mark Ruwedel\, Victoria Sambunaris\, Stephen Shore\, Alec Soth\, and Carleton E. Watkins\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-event-for-american-geography-in-honor-of-barry-lopez/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: T.J. Stiles
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nNews alert\, nonfiction fans! Litquake has secured the participation of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning biographer T.J. Stiles for our Seismic Salon series. Called “a superb researcher” by the Washington Post\, Stiles received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History for Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America\, and the 2010 Pulitzer for Biography (as well as the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction) for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. He is also author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War\, which was a New York Times notable book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. A Guggenheim fellow\, he has taught creative nonfiction at Columbia. He currently serves on the governing boards of the Authors Guild\, the Organization of American Historians\, and the Society of American Historians. And if politics are your thing\, T.J. loves to talk about that as well. \nBuy T.J. Stiles’ books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-t-j-stiles/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Becky Albertalli with Leah Johnson
DESCRIPTION:We could not be more excited: #1 New York Times bestselling author\, rom com queen\, and longtime favorite Becky Albertalli will be joining us for a virtual event to chat about Kate In Waiting\, a buoyant and endearing new novel about daring to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight in love\, life\, and yes\, theater. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContrary to popular belief\, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Carpooling to and from theater rehearsals? Environmentally sound and efficient. Consulting each other on every single life decision? Basic good judgment. Pining for the same guys from afar? Shared crushes are more fun anyway. But when Kate and Andy’s latest long-distance crush shows up at their school\, everything goes off-script. Turns out\, communal crushes aren’t so fun when real feelings are involved. This one might even bring the curtains down on Kate and Anderson’s friendship. \nBecky Albertalli is the author of William C. Morris Award winner and National Book Award longlist title\, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (now a hit film\, Love\, Simon); the acclaimed The Upside of Unrequited; and the New York Times bestsellers Leah on the Offbeat\, What If It’s Us (cowritten with Adam Silvera)\, Yes No Maybe So (cowritten with Aisha Saeed)\, and Love\, Creekwood: A Simonverse Novella. \nBecky will be chatting with Leah Johnson\, author of the bestselling  You Should See Me in a Crown that was the inaugural Reese’s Book Club YA pick\, was named one of Cosmo’s 15 Best Young Adult Books of 2020\, an Indies Introduce pick\, and a Junior Library Guild selection. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note that we have a zero tolerance policy for harassment or intimidation of any kind during our virtual events. In the event that someone joins the event who is not there to celebrate the author\, the store will immediately remove any disrespectful comments and remove this individual from the event. Once removed\, they cannot rejoin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/becky-albertalli-with-leah-johnson/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Heidi Kühn - Breaking Ground: From Landmines to Grapevines\, One Woman's Mission to Heal the World (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:Both a memoir and a call to action\, this book is a gripping account of the author’s quest to eradicate landmines from the face of the earth. \nHeidi Kühn’s commitment to fostering peace and raising awareness has been a driving force in her life—from her early days as a student at the University of California\, Berkeley\, to her time as a reporter in Juneau\, Alaska\, covering the Exxon Valdez oil spill and US-Russia relations. After overcoming a potentially terminal cancer diagnosis that threatened everything she held dear\, Heidi became determined to rid the world of another form of cancer that has plagued the world for decades—landmines—in regions as far-flung as Croatia\, Vietnam\, and Afghanistan. \nInspired by her work of the late Princess Diana\, Heidi began the humanitarian organization Roots of Peace from the basement off her Northern California home. She gained the support of famed Napa Valley vintners Robert Mondavi and Mike Grgich\, and soon her mines-to-vines. mission began to take hold. \nIn this powerful memoir\, Heidi tells the Roots of Peace story\, guiding the reader from the early days in which she built her vision to her current presence on the global stage\, where she has worked with presidents\, prime ministers\, landmine survivors\, and religious leaders from around the world to spread a message of peace and recovery. In the years since the founding of Roots of Peace\, its agricultural projects have made tremendous progress to fight against landmines\, revitalizing devastated land and uplifting the lives of countless people in the process. \nThrough recalling her journey\, Heidi reveals the remarkable change an ordinary person can inspire. Her story is one of faith\, healing\, and the compassion needed to grow a more peaceful world. Breaking Ground will encourage you to do the extraordinary and help plant the seeds of change for a brighter future. \nHeidi Kühn is the founder and CEO of Roots of Peace\, which has impacted over 1.1 million farmers and family members\, spanning seven countries. Thanks to Roots of Peace\, over one hundred thousand landmines and unexploded ordnances have been removed since 2001. Her numerous awards include the 2002 Alumni of the Year Award for Excellence in Achievement from UC Berkeley\, the 2005 World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations Peace & Security Award\, the 2006 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship\, the 2007 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefitting Local Communities\, and the 2019 Mahatma Gandhi Seva Medal. Heidi is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a former CNN reporter and producer. She lives in San Rafael\, California\, with her husband\, Gary\, with whom she has four children—Brooks\, Tucker\, Kyleigh\, and Christian. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heidi-kuhn-breaking-ground-from-landmines-to-grapevines-one-womans-mission-to-heal-the-world-online-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mira Sethi
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new fiction collection \nAre You Enjoying? \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nAn exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative\, funny\, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family\, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. \nFrom the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home–including the bedroom–these wryly observed\, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor\, compassion\, psychological acuity\, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student’s preparations for his sister’s wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show\, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved\, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited\, confident\, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent. \n\nMira Sethi is an actor and a writer. She grew up in Lahore and attended Wellesley College\, after which Sethi worked as a books editor at The Wall Street Journal. She has written op-ed pieces for The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The Guardian. Sethi regularly appears in mainstream Pakistani drama series on television. She lives in Lahore\, Karachi\, and San Francisco. \nreading from her new fiction collection \nAre You Enjoying? \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nAn exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative\, funny\, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family\, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. \nFrom the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home–including the bedroom–these wryly observed\, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor\, compassion\, psychological acuity\, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student’s preparations for his sister’s wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show\, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved\, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited\, confident\, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent. \n\nMira Sethi is an actor and a writer. She grew up in Lahore and attended Wellesley College\, after which Sethi worked as a books editor at The Wall Street Journal. She has written op-ed pieces for The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The Guardian. Sethi regularly appears in mainstream Pakistani drama series on television. She lives in Lahore\, Karachi\, and San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mira-sethi/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night | Featuring Jewelle Gomez
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Join us on ZOOM twice a month for our virtual Open Mic. Look for MoAD Open Mic every other Thursday this month. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets and musicians from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nAll interested performers\, please sign up below. For those interested in listening as part of the audience\, no need to fill out the form\, just follow the zoom link below: \nSign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, April 22 2021\n\n\n\nFirst Name\n\n\nLast Name\n\n\nEmail Address\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations of any amount are always welcome\, so if you are able to\, please consider donating to MoAD online HERE\, or donating through Give by Cell by texting the word: MOADSF to the number: 56512 on your cell phone\, then follow the link provided to make a donation. All donations will go towards supporting MoAD and continuing to bring you engaging programming. \nHere are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nREGISTER IN ADVANCE VIA ZOOM TO RECEIVE A LINK TO JOIN THE PROGRAM \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtce2vrzwiEt0a_Tbt0aZXjd2UWKjmTNNB \nOnce you register\, you will receive an email with the link to join the program. \nOur Featured Artist: Jewelle Gomez \nJewelle Gomez\, (Cape Verdean/Wampanoag/Ioway) is a novelist\, essayist\, poet\, educator\, and public speaker. She’s the author of eight books including the first Black Lesbian vampire novel\, THE GILDA STORIES\, which has been in print more than 25 years and was recently optioned by Cheryl Dunye for a TV mini-series. Her work has appeared numerous anthologies including “Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora\,” and “Red Indian Road West.” Her plays about James Baldwin and Alberta Hunter have been produced in San Francisco and New York City. Follow @VampyreVamp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night-featuring-jewelle-gomez/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Cook\, Eat\, Repeat: Nigella Lawson with Yotam Ottolenghi
DESCRIPTION:COOK\, EAT\, REPEAT: Nigella Lawson in Conversation with Yotam Ottolenghi \nJoin two of the most internationally renowned and beloved food writers\, Nigella Lawson and Yotam Ottolenghi\, in a lively conversation to mark the publication of Nigella’s highly anticipated new cookbook\, COOK\, EAT\, REPEAT: Ingredients\, Recipes\, and Stories. This exclusive event is hosted in collaboration with a group of fantastic independent bookstores across the American West. \nNote: Due to the time difference\, this event will be recorded live-to-tape in advance and aired exclusively on April 22\, 2021 at 6:00PM PT / 7:00PM MT / 8:00PM CT on Crowdcast. Please submit any questions you have ahead of time and yours may be answered during the event!  \nCLICK HERE FOR TICKETS TO THIS SPECIAL EVENT! \nCOOK\, EAT\, REPEAT is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food\, all written in Nigella Lawson’s engaging and insightful prose. Whether asking “what is a recipe?” or declaring death to the “guilty pleasure\,” Nigella brings her wisdom about food and life to the fore while sharing new recipes that readers will want to return to again and again. As Nigella herself says\, “food\, for me\, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it\, reflect deeply on it\, learn from it; it provides comfort\, inspiration\, meaning\, and beauty…More than just a mantra\, ‘cook\, eat\, repeat’ is the story of my life.”  \nNigella Lawson is an internationally renowned food writer and cooking show host with eleven bestselling books to her name\, including How to Eat and How to be a Domestic Goddess and\, most recently\, At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking. Several successful TV series have made her a household name around the world. \nYotam Ottolenghi is the restauranteur and chef-patron of four London-based Ottolenghi delis\, as well as the NOPI and ROVI restaurants. He is the author of eight best-selling cookery books. Amongst several prizes\, Ottolenghi SIMPLE won the National Book Award and was selected as best book of the year by the New York Times. Yotam has been a weekly columnist for the Saturday Guardian for over thirteen years and is a regular contributor to the New York Times. Yotam lives in London with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-cook-eat-repeat-nigella-lawson-with-yotam-ottolenghi/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters & Greater Good Science Center present Amanda Ripley with Jason Marsh / High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley are thrilled to present Amanda Ripley for her new book High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out. She’ll be in conversation with GGSC executive director Jason Marsh. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order High Conflict here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book \nWhen we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics\, at work\, or at home—it’s because we aren’t seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. \nThat’s what “high conflict” does. It’s the invisible hand of our time. And it’s different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. That’s good conflict\, and it’s a necessary force that pushes us to be better people. \nHigh conflict\, by contrast\, is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud\, the kind with an us and a them. In this state\, the normal rules of engagement no longer apply. The brain behaves differently. We feel increasingly certain of our own superiority and\, at the same time\, more and more mystified by the other side. \nNew York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free. \nOur journey begins in California\, where a world-renowned conflict expert struggles to extract himself from a political feud. Then we meet a Chicago gang leader who dedicates his life to a vendetta—only to find himself working beside the man who killed his childhood idol. Next\, we travel to Colombia\, to find out whether thousands of people can be nudged out of high conflict at scale. Finally\, we return to America to see what happens when a group of liberal Manhattan Jews and conservative Michigan corrections officers choose to stay in each other’s homes in order to understand one another better. \nAll these people\, in dramatically different situations\, were drawn into high conflict by similar forces\, including conflict entrepreneurs\, humiliation\, and false binaries. But ultimately\, all of them found ways to transform high conflict into something good\, something that made them better people. They rehumanized and recatego­rized their opponents\, and they revived curiosity and wonder\, even as they continued to fight for what they knew was right. \nPeople do escape high conflict. Individuals—even entire communities—can short-circuit the feedback loops of outrage and blame\, if they want to. This is a mind-opening new way to think about conflict that will transform how we move through the world. \nAbout the authors \nAmanda Ripley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World and The Unthinkable. She writes for The Atlantic\, Politico\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other publications. \nJason Marsh is the executive director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and the founding editor in chief of the center’s award-winning online magazine\, Greater Good\, which engages 1 million readers each month. He is also the founding producer of the GGSC’s online course and podcast–both called The Science of Happiness--which have reached millions of students and listeners worldwide. Marsh has co-edited three anthologies of Greater Good articles: The Compassionate Instinct\, Are We Born Racist?\, and The Gratitude Project; his own articles for Greater Good have explored everything from the psychology of the bystander to the reasons why he should finally start meditating. His writing has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and the opinion section of CNN.com. Previously\, he worked as a reporter and producer at KQED Public Radio in San Francisco\, as a documentary producer\, and as a kindergarten teacher. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-berkeley-arts-letters-greater-good-science-center-present-amanda-ripley-with-jason-marsh-high-conflict-why-we-get-trapped-and-how-we-get-out/
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Connection and Community
DESCRIPTION:The American Dream as it has been defined for more than a century is about the well-paying job\, the nuclear family\, and upward mobility. But what both clouds and defines that dream is the distance between us\, our neighbors\, and that we\, our communities\, are defined by the dichotomy of winners and losers. What has been lost in many people’s day to day and in the larger American Dream is the key element that helped many of us to succeed in the first place-community. \nJoin author and activist Mia Birdsong and CIIS Director of Diversity and Inclusion Rachel Bryant for a conversation on reclaiming family\, friendship\, and communities. Sharing insights from her book\, How We Show Up\, Mia shows that what separates us isn’t only the ever-present injustices built around race\, class\, gender\, values\, and beliefs\, but also our denial of our interdependence and need for belonging. Mia highlights how we can return to our inherent connectedness to find strength\, safety\, and support in vulnerability and generosity\, in asking for help\, and in being accountable. \nDiscover how showing up-literally and figuratively-points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we want. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/birdsong-mia-april-22-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
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LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Discussion of THE JACKPOT | Author Michael Mechanic in conversation with Dashka Slater
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, April 22\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of JACKPOT: HOW THE SUPER-RICH REALLY LIVE—AND HOW THEIR WEALTH HARMS US ALL with local author Michael Mechanic in discussion with Dashka Slater (author of THE 57 BUS and ESCARGOT). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85795898890. \nOrder your copy of JACKPOT at http://bit.ly/ggpJackpot\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/JackpotAB. \nDescription\n\nA senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich\, showing the fascinating\, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. \nHave you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies\, surviving war and peace\, expansions and recessions\, economic meltdowns and global pandemics. We dream of the jackpot\, the big exit\, the life-altering payday\, in whatever form that takes. (Americans spent $81 billion on lottery tickets in 2019\, more than the GDPs of most nations.) We would escape “essential” day jobs and cramped living spaces\, bury our debts\, buy that sweet spread\, and bail out struggling friends and relations. But rarely do we follow the fantasy to its conclusion—to ponder the social\, psychological\, and societal downsides of great affluence and the fact that so few possess it. \nWhat is it actually like to be blessed with riches in an era of plagues\, political rancor\, and near-Dickensian economic differences? How mind-boggling are the opportunities and access\, how problematic the downsides? Does the experience differ depending on whether the money is earned or unearned\, where it comes from\, and whether you are male or female\, white or black? Finally\, how does our collective lust for affluence\, and our stubborn belief in social mobility\, explain how we got to the point where forty percent of Americans have literally no wealth at all? \nThese are all questions that Jackpot sets out to explore. The result of deep reporting and dozens of interviews with fortunate citizens—company founders and executives\, superstar coders\, investors\, inheritors\, lottery winners\, lobbyists\, lawmakers\, academics\, sports agents\, wealth and philanthropy professionals\, concierges\, luxury realtors\, Bentley dealers\, and even a woman who trains billionaires’ nannies in physical combat\, Jackpot is a compassionate\, character-rich\, perversely humorous\, and ultimately troubling journey into the American wealth fantasy and where it has taken us. \nAbout the Author\n\nMichael Mechanic\, the author of JACKPOT\, is a longtime East Bay resident\, Oakland Tech parent\, and senior editor at Mother Jones magazine. He is also the former managing editor of the East Bay Express and a graduate of UC Berkeley\, where he majored in biochemistry and earned a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism. Mechanic has won numerous awards for his writing\, including a “best feature” award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for a piece about illegal cockfighting culture. \nPraise For… \n\n“Economic inequality has never been more gaping in the United States\, which makes it the perfect time to read Jackpot\, Michael Mechanic’s entertaining and eviscerating peek behind the velvet curtains and into the real lives of America’s Super-Rich. Mechanic provides an eyeopening exposé of the myriad ways in which our nation’s political system unfairly enriches those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom. His myth-busting conclusion is that everyone loses\, even the lucky few who have hit the jackpot.” —JANE MAYER\, author of Dark Money \n“Eye-opening…. often a gleeful sendup of the absurd eccentricities of the superrich…. A scathing but fair indictment of how the mindless worship of wealth makes us all poorer.” —Kirkus Reviews \n  \nAbout Dashka Slater\n\nDashka Slater has been telling stories since she could talk. An award-winning journalist who writes about criminal justice and other topics for such publications as The New York Times Magazine and Mother Jones\, she is also the author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. Learn more at www.dashkaslater.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/discussion-of-the-jackpot-author-michael-mechanic-in-conversation-with-dashka-slater/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T210000
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SUMMARY:Andri Snaer Magnason and Rebecca Solnit In conversation about On Time and Water
DESCRIPTION:Orion Magazine and Point Reyes Books present a special Earth Day conversation featuring Rebecca Solnit and Icelandic writer Andri Snaer Magnason. The two will discuss Magnason’s new book\, On Time and Water (Open Letter Books). \n“It is difficult to express to someone who has not read [On Time and Water] how wonderful and how horrifying—in a nutshell\, how truly vital—this book is. Magnason has created a masterpiece\, staunchly scientific and highly informative\, yet utterly raw in its humanity.”—Asymptote Journal \nThis pre-recorded conversation will premiere on our Crowdcast channel in celebration of Earth Day 2021. \nThis is a free event\, but we encourage you to pay what you will or purchase the book to support the bookstore and Orion Magazine. All ticket sales will be split between the organizations. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout On Time and Water\nA few years ago\, Andri Snaer Magnason\, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals\, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced. Magnason demurred: he wasn’t a specialist\, he said; it wasn’t his field. But the scientist persisted: “If you cannot understand our scientific findings and present them in an emotional\, psychological\, poetic or mythological context\,” he told him\, “then no one will really understand the issue\, and the world will end.” \nBased on interviews and advice from leading glacial\, ocean\, climate\, and geographical scientists\, and interwoven with personal\, historical\, and mythological stories\, Magnason’s response is a rich and compelling work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change–and offers hope in the face of an uncertain future. Moving from reflections on how one writes an obituary for an iceberg to exhortation for a heightened understanding of human time and our obligations to one another\, throughout history and across the globe\, On Time and Water is both deeply personal and globally-minded: a travel story\, a world history\, and a desperate plea to live in harmony with future generations. Already a massive bestseller in Iceland\, and selling in two dozen territories around the world\, this is a book unlike anything that has yet been published on the current climate emergency. \nAbout Andri Snaer Magnason and Rebecca Solnit\nAndri Snær Magnason is one of Iceland’s most celebrated writers. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction\, children’s fiction\, and non-fiction. In 2009\, Magnason co-directed the documentary Dreamland\, which was based on his book Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation (forthcoming from Open Letter). In 2010\, Magnason was awarded the Kairos Prize\, presented to outstanding individuals in the field of intercultural understanding. Magnason ran for president of Iceland in 2016 and came third out of nine candidates. \nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andri-snaer-magnason-and-rebecca-solnit-in-conversation-about-on-time-and-water/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T193000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #56
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-56/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #73
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 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.\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-73/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T120000
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CREATED:20210316T151410Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: My Voice in Ink: Speaking Our Truths
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL POETRY WORKSHOP:\nMy Voice in Ink: Speaking Our Truths \nLove Amanda Gorman and her inaugural poem? Want to write a new poem yourself and support the organization where Gorman got her start? Well\, sharpen your pencil and grab your notebook! All you need is a life! No previous writing experience necessary. \nJoin poet and nonfiction author Patrice Vecchione for a Zoom poetry writing workshop\, April 24th\, from 10:00 am–12:00 pm. \nClick here for tickets to this special event.  \nThe workshop fee of $40 includes one of Patrice’s recent books\, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience or My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry & Speaking Your Truth as well as a donation to WriteGirl. Learn more about WriteGirl here. \nFor ages 14 on up.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-my-voice-in-ink-speaking-our-truths/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T120000
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SUMMARY:Kyle Lukoff on Instagram Live!
DESCRIPTION:reading Explosion at the Poem Factory. \n“Offbeat nonsense humor of the highest order: not to be missed.”–Kirkus\, starred review \nBe sure to watch within 24 hours of broadcast before the video disappears! \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, April 24\, 2021 – 10:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nKilmer Watts makes his living teaching piano lessons\, but when automatic pianos arrive in town\, he realizes he’s out of a job. He spots a “Help Wanted” sign at the poem factory and decides to investigate — he’s always been curious about how poems are made. \nThe foreman explains that machines and assembly lines are used for poetry these days. So Kilmer learns how to operate the “meter meter” and empty the “cliché bins.” He assembles a poem by picking out a rhyme scheme\, sprinkling in some similes and adding alliteration. \nBut one day the machines malfunction\, and there is a dramatic explosion at the poem factory. How will poetry ever survive? \nKyle Lukoff’s funny story\, rich in wordplay\, is complemented by Mark Hoffmann’s lively\, quirky art. The backmatter includes definitions of poetic feet\, types of poems (with illustrated examples) and a glossary of other terms. An author’s note explains the inspiration for the story. \nKyle Lukoff has worked at the intersection of books and people for more than half his life\, first as a bookseller and later as a school librarian\, reviewer\, awards juror and contributor to professional publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kyle-lukoff-on-instagram-live/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T180000
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SUMMARY:Alley Cat Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day: Poetry reading with Kim Shuck and 5 Poets!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday April 24th starting at 5pm.\nWe will be wrapping up our celebration of Independent Bookstore Day with some of our favorite poets!\nZoom:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86715102063\nPassword: Password will be messaged to those who respond as “Going.”\nThe bookstore will also be open for the celebration. Please keep in mind the current capacity is 12 people and a mask is required.\nWe are honored to host:\nKim Shuck\nhttps://kimshuck.com\nPaul Corman-Roberts https://www.nomadicpress.org/paulcormanroberts\nKitty Costello http://www.freedomvoices.org/new/kitty-costello-upon-waking\nLourdes Figueroa\nhttps://www.lourdesfigueroa.net\nMason J.\nhttps://www.nomadicpress.org/store/crossbonesonmylife\nGreg Pond\nhttps://nomadicground.tumblr.com/…/i-fell-by-greg-pond
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alley-cat-celebrates-independent-bookstore-day-poetry-reading-with-kim-shuck-and-5-poets/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T190000
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SUMMARY:At The Door: Chapter Three
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly reading series\, uplifting only Black & Brown voices. If you didn’t attend last month’s event… you missed out. Here’s your chance to make it up.\nFeatured Readers:\nEmily Hoang\nRebeca Flores\nRandy James\nSumeera J.\nTureeda Mikell\n\nWe look forward to seeing you in community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-door-chapter-three/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T200000
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CREATED:20210424T221847Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Roots
DESCRIPTION:Join SNS this month\, for a reading about ROOTS. For our April writing challenge\, you are invited to explore an origin story\, history\, or ancestry (your own\, a relative’s\, a fictional character’s) or write about what anchors or nourishes you or what holds you back (literally or metaphorically) or write about trees\, tulips\, turnips or kites. You get the idea \n*Special thanks to Greg Roensch for suggesting this month’s theme.\n\nAPRIL FEATURES:\nMatthew Clark Davison & Andres Cordoba\n\nOPEN MIC: Share your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic).\nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum.\n\nSATURDAY\, April 24\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm\n\nHOSTED BY: Hollie Hardy\n\nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on April. 17. Requests added in the order received until the list is full.\nTo sign up\, please put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max.\n\nZOOM INFO:\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://cccconfer.zoom.us/…/tJMrdOqspjsrHtDrqxtbnGOR1IS…\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the reading.\n\nAUTHOR BIOS\nMATTHEW CLARK DAVISON’s debut novel\, Doubting Thomas\, will be published in Summer 2021 by Amble Press. He’s full-time faculty in Creative Writing at SFSU and creator and teacher of The Lab :: Writing Classes with MCD a non-academic school started in 2007 in a friend’s living room. The textbook version of The Lab \, co-authored by bestselling writer Alice LaPlante\, will be published by Norton in 2022. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews (Epiphany Publishing) and 580-Split; and published in or on Guernica\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Advocate\, Exquisite Pandemic\, Foglifter\, Lumina Magazine\, Per Contra\, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant\, Cultural Equities Grant. Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress\, and a Stonewall Alumni Award.\n\nANDRES CORDOBA is a Massachusetts-born writer. He has received honors such as the Thayer Fellowship For the Arts and the Patricia Kerr Ross Award\, was named a 2019 Breakout 8 Writer in poetry by Epiphany: A Literary Journal\, and was a finalist in Black Warrior Review’s 2020 Poetry Contest. He has just recently militarized his focus; catch him croaking his catharsis in a parking lot with a loaded spliff\, all tobacco heavy-headed with hands muddy from the night shift. More can be found on twitter (@urgoodpalandres) and instagram (@urgoodpal_andres).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-roots/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T131500
DTSTAMP:20260405T173338
CREATED:20210415T051439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210415T051439Z
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SUMMARY:Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros Virtual Celebration
DESCRIPTION:It’s a celebration of literacy\, books and nature! We invite you and your family to enjoy stories\, songs\, crafts and learn about special places to visit in the City. We are bringing the festival to your home\, we hope you can join us. \nEs una celebracion de la lectura\, libros y la naturaleza. Los invitamos con su familia para que disfruten cuentos\, canciones\, manualidades y aprenden acerca de lugares especiales dentro de la cuidad. Traemos el festival a sus hogares\, esperamos que pueden acompanarnos. \nTune in on Facebook and on YouTube. \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor 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. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/04/25/dia-de-los-ninosdia-de-los-libros-virtual-celebration sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dia-de-los-ninos-dia-de-los-libros-virtual-celebration/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173338
CREATED:20210415T052903Z
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SUMMARY:CWC WORKSHOP: How To Submit Your Poetry With Keith M. Gaboury
DESCRIPTION:This workshop led by poet Keith M. Gaboury will focus on a step-by-step process of how a poet can submit their poetry to a wide range of literary journals along with presses that accept chapbooks and full-length manuscripts. From such topics as knowing which literary journals to submit to\, formatting a cover letter\, and following submission guidelines\, Keith will break this seemingly daunting process into goals that are readily attainable. All this information will be shared through a Google Doc that will remain active indefinitely. In addition\, the Google Doc will have links to online databases of literary journals / presses and websites that feature active submission calls. At the end of the workshop\, a poet will have a thorough understanding of how they can send their poetry out into the literary world. \nKeith Mark Gaboury earned a M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His poems have appeared in such literary publications as Poetry Quarterly and New Millennium Writings along with chapbooks from Duck Lake Books and The Pedestrian Press. He has a forthcoming chapbook from Finishing Line Press. Keith lives in Oakland\, California. Learn more at www.keithmgaboury.com. \n### \nToday\, the California Writers Club (CWC) is the third oldest writing club in the United States. Membership has grown to 1\,800 members in 22 Branches throughout the state. Although named the Berkeley Branch when the Club reorganized into formal Branches and a Central Board in the mid-1970s\, the Branch meets in Oakland monthly September-June. The statewide Central Board holds its biannual meetings in Oakland as well. \nCWC member/volunteers serve aspiring writers\, published writers\, and supporters by providing speaker programs\, contests\, critique and support groups\, workshops\, publishing opportunities\, networking events (online and F2F)\, and more. \n$10 For Members\, $20 For Non-Members. \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cwc-workshop-how-to-submit-your-poetry-with-keith-m-gaboury/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="California Writers Club - Berkeley":MAILTO:berkeley.cwc@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210426T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173338
CREATED:20210212T041852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210212T041852Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Alter and Daniel Mason on Nabokov
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, APRIL 26 AT 6PM WHEN ROBERT ALTER IS JOINED BY DANIEL MASON TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK\, NABOKOV AND THE REAL WORLD: BETWEEN APPRECIATION AND DEFENSE\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86708546681\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86708546681#  or +13462487799\,\,86708546681#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdBG9kysFj\n \nPraise for Nabokov and the Real World \n“This essay collection assesses the stakes and real-world relevance of Nabokov’s writing\, from his lectures and short stories to his major novels. It’s a great read if you’re a Nabokov fan\, or if you’ve ever wondered\, ‘Why did this guy write Lolita?'”—Literary Hub \n“Elegant and penetrating. This important and timely book offers very personal readings of Nabokov by one of the most prominent literary scholars and translators today.”—Galya Diment\, author of Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel and A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky \n“In his sustained appreciation of the relation between consciousness and reality\, Alter intricately articulates how lived experience is\, and can be\, realized through the textual object. Nabokov and the Real World reveals how we can experience other worlds vicariously and does so in sumptuous prose from start to finish.”—Michael Rodgers\, author of Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives\nAbout Nabokov and the Real World \nAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games\, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction. Nabokov himself spoke a number of times about reality as a term that always has to be put in scare quotes. Consequently\, many critics and readers have thought of him as a writer uninterested in the world outside literature. Robert Alter shows how Nabokov was passionately concerned with the real world and its complexities\, from love and loss to exile\, freedom\, and the impact of contemporary politics on our lives. \nIn these illuminating and exquisitely written essays\, Alter spans the breadth of Nabokov’s writings\, from his memoir\, lectures\, and short stories to major novels such as Lolita. He demonstrates how the self-reflexivity of Nabokov’s fiction becomes a vehicle for expressing very real concerns. What emerges is a portrait of a brilliant stylist who is at once serious and playful\, who cared deeply about human relationships and the burden of loss\, and who was acutely sensitive to the ways political ideologies can distort human values. \nOffering timeless insights into literature’s most fabulous artificer\, Nabokov and the Real World makes an elegant and compelling case for Nabokov’s relevance today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-alter-and-daniel-mason-on-nabokov/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210426T210000
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SUMMARY:Doug Bierend and Joanna Steinhardt
DESCRIPTION:In conversation about In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science\, Fungi Fanatics\, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms \nDoug Bierend is joined by Joanna Steinhardt of the Society for Cultural Anthropology for a wide-ranging conversation about In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science\, Fungi Fanatics\, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms (Chelsea Green). \n“Mushrooms are having a moment. [A] natural sequel for the many readers who enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life.” — Library Journal \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout In Search of Mycotopia\nFrom ecology to fermentation\, in pop culture and in medicine–mushrooms are everywhere. With an explorer’s eye\, author Doug Bierend guides readers through the weird\, wonderful world of fungi and the amazing mycological movement. \nIn Search of Mycotopia introduces us to an incredible\, essential\, and oft-overlooked kingdom of life–fungi–and all the potential it holds for our future\, through the work and research being done by an unforgettable community of mushroom-mad citizen scientists and microbe devotees. This entertaining and mind-expanding book will captivate readers who are curious about the hidden worlds and networks that make up our planet. \nBierend uncovers a vanguard of mycologists; growers\, independent researchers\, ecologists\, entrepreneurs\, and amateur enthusiasts exploring and advocating for fungi’s capacity to improve and heal. From decontaminating landscapes and waterways to achieving food security\, In Search of Mycotopia demonstrates how humans can work with fungi to better live with nature–and with one another. \nAbout the participants\nDoug Bierend is a freelance journalist writing about science and technology\, food\, and education\, and the various ways they point to a more equitable and sustainable world. His byline appears in Wired\, The Atlantic\, Vice\, Motherboard\, The Counter\, Outside Magazine\, Civil Eats\, and numerous other publications. \nJoanna Steinhardt is an Oakland-based researcher\, writer\, and editor. She holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara. She is currently working on a book about iboga\, a psychoactive root bark from West Africa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/doug-bierend-and-joanna-steinhardt/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
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SUMMARY:Sesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo in conversation with Carribean Fragoza
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform.   \n\ncelebrating the book launch of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines\, published by City Lights Books. Sesshu & Arturo will be in conversation with their fellow City Lights author Carribean Fragoza! \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. \n———– \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n\n\n\nBooks related to this event: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nELADATL \nA History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines\nSesshu Foster\, Arturo Ernesto Romo\ndue out in April 2021\nAvailable for pre-order. A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel\, as told by its death-defying\, aero-acrobatic heroes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sesshu-foster-arturo-ernesto-romo-in-conversation-with-carribean-fragoza/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173338
CREATED:20210414T145128Z
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SUMMARY:This Is Now: Kawai Strong Washburn
DESCRIPTION:Join Angie Coiro as she interviews the critically acclaimed debut novelist who stunned everyone from former President Obama to Marlon James and Tommy Orange with his extraordinary novel\, Sharks in the Time of Saviors.\nThis groundbreaking book folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into the modern-day struggles of a single working family. A young child\, Naiona\, falls suddenly from a boat on a rare vacation. After the incident\, the 7 year-old boy seems to develop unusual powers that follow him into adulthood and add challenges to already complex relationships between his siblings\, who are flung as far as California and Portland. With a heady\, golden overlay of belief\, myth and magic\, plus a challenging backdrop of financial strife and Hawaiian politics\, this is fundamentally a human story—in which individuals struggle to develop identity and connection against the weight of challenging surroundings\, economic realities\, and the slightly supernatural. \n“Old myths clash with new realities\, love is in a ride or die with grief\, faith rubs hard against magic\, and comic flips with tragic so much they meld into something new. All told with daredevil lyricism to burn. A ferocious debut.”—MARLON JAMES\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“So good it hurts and hurts to where it heals. It is revelatory and unputdownable. Washburn is an extraordinarily brilliant new talent.”—TOMMY ORANGE\, author of There There \n\nGet to know one of the most exciting new novelists working today for a very special This Is Now conversation with Kawai Strong Washburn. \n\n\n\n\nKAWAI STRONG WASHBURN was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘I. His work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, McSweeney’s\, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading\, among other outlets. He was a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. Formerly a Bay Area writer and frequent visitor to Kepler’s\, he now lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. ** \nPhoto of Kawai Strong Washburn by Crystal Lieppa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-kawai-strong-washburn/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173338
CREATED:20210424T220605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T220605Z
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: The Rise and Fall of Angkor
DESCRIPTION:Explore the quintessential “lost city” of Angkor Wat with us during this very special interactive seminar led by Charles Higham\, archaeologist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago\, New Zealand.\nHow did the mighty civilization of Angkor in Cambodia come to be\, and why did it collapse? This seminar will explore the impact of climate change on the rise and fall of the Khmer Empire. \nThere are two fundamentals to life in Southeast Asia: the arrival of monsoon rains and the importance of securing a predictable rice harvest. New research has shown that a period of weakened monsoon led to an agricultural crisis in the late prehistoric period (about 200AD). Motivated by decreased rice yields\, this ingenious ancient society developed systems of reservoirs and irrigation to counter the lower rainfall. However\, the unintended consequence of these technological advancements was a steep rise in social inequality and the rise to power of the God-Kings of the Kingdom of Angkor. During their peak\, they built the epic complex known as Angkor Wat\, unrivaled in its scale and grandeur. But\, after six centuries of prosperity\, a second climatic change brought catastrophe and the system collapsed. \nCharles Higham is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago\, New Zealand. He is an archaeologist with a particular interest in the origins of Southeast Asian civilizations. His excavations in Thailand and Cambodia have greatly increased our understanding of how the great Kingdom of Angkor began\, how God-Kings were revered\, and with a climatic deterioration\, how it came to an end. \nTuesday\, April 27\, 6pm\nCAMBODIA: THE RISE AND FALL OF ANGKOR WITH CHARLES HIGHAM \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-rise-and-fall-of-angkor/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Yung Pueblo / Clarity & Connection
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Yung Pueblo again\, for the launch of his second collection of poetry and short prose\, Clarity & Connection. Some of you might remember when we hosted for Inward\, his first book—it was quite the treat\, and we hope you can join us for another special evening with the author. \nPlease note: \n\nThis is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a copy of the book.\nWe’re happy to say we have *signed copies* while supplies last. Yung Pueblo will be signing bookplates and sending them to us to put in all of your books.\nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers.\nIf you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us: events@booksmith.com.\nYou can order additional signed copies of Clarity & Connection here (and signed copies of Inward here) – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay.\n\nAbout the book\nFrom the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. \nIn Clarity & Connection\, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare\, poetic style\, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. \nTo be read on its own or as a complement to Inward\, Yung Pueblo’s second work is a powerful resource for those invested in the work of personal transformation\, building self-awareness\, and deepening their connection with others. \nAbout the author\nDiego Perez was born in Ecuador and immigrated to the United States as a child. He grew up in Boston and attended Wesleyan University. During a silent Vipassana meditation course in 2012\, he saw that real healing and liberation were possible. He became more committed to his meditation practice while living in New York City. The results he witnessed rsthand moved him to describe his experiences in writing. The penname Yung Pueblo means “young people” and is meant to convey that humanity is entering an era of remarkable growth and healing\, when many will expand their self-awareness and release old burdens. Diego’s online presence as Yung Pueblo\, as well as his books\, Inward and Clarity & Connection\, are meant to serve those undertaking their own journey of personal transformation. Today\, Diego resides in Western Massachusetts with his wife\, where they live quietly and meditate daily. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed\, all-ages event. Each ticket includes a signed copy of Clarity & Connection (while supplies last) – no exceptions. If you already have a copy\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted this title to all of your friends\, please write events@booksmith.com and we’ll work things out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-yung-pueblo-clarity-connection/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T210000
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SUMMARY:THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed M. Masood | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, April 27\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed M. Masood. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82405221338. \nYou can order a print copy at https://bit.ly/ggpBadMuslimDiscount or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/BadMuslimDiscountAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\nA charming novel of Muslim immigrants to the United States trying to find their way. Romance\, humor\, and tragedy and a Bay Area setting kept me listening in a long binge. The audiobook performance is very well done.— Mike \nFebruary 2021 Indie Next List \n\n“I loved The Bad Muslim Discount so much I read the acknowledgements just so it wouldn’t end — and they were great\, too! This is an insightful and funny novel about faith\, family\, and being a Muslim American today. Masood offers us a sharp perspective\, a seamless style\, and unforgettable characters\, leaving the reader enriched for the experience.”\n— Claire Benedict\, Bear Pond Books\, Montpelier\, VT \nDescription\n\n“Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic\, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim America: the way historical conflict in the Middle East lingers in individual lives\, the way gossip travels in a close-knit immigrant community.” The New York Times Book Review \nFollowing two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016\, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive\, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America. \nIt is 1995\, and Anvar Faris is a restless\, rebellious\, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi\, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again\, his family decides\, not quite unanimously\, to start life over in California. Ironically\, Anvar’s deeply devout mother and his model-Muslim brother adjust easily to life in America\, while his fun-loving father can’t find anyone he relates to. For his part\, Anvar fully commits to being a bad Muslim. \nAt the same time\, thousands of miles away\, Safwa\, a young girl living in war-torn Baghdad with her grief-stricken\, conservative father will find a very different and far more dangerous path to America. When Anvar and Safwa’s worlds collide as two remarkable\, strong-willed adults\, their contradictory\, intertwined fates will rock their community\, and families\, to their core. \nThe Bad Muslim Discount is an irreverent\, poignant\, and often hysterically funny debut novel by an amazing new voice. With deep insight\, warmth\, and an irreverent sense of humor\, Syed M. Masood examines universal questions of identity\, faith (or lack thereof)\, and belonging through the lens of Muslim Americans. \nAbout the Author\n\nSYED M. MASOOD grew up in Karachi\, Pakistan. A first-generation immigrant twice over\, he has been a citizen of three different countries and nine different cities. He currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, where he is a practicing attorney. \nPraise For…\n\n“Masood offers sharp observations on religion\, violence\, and politics\, and his clever choice to place the characters’ disparate experiences in parallel challenges Islamophobic stereotypes.” The New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bad-muslim-discount-by-syed-m-masood-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Brian Fies\, A Fire Story
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Celebrated author and illustrator Brian Fies will share A Fire Story\, his firsthand account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017—revised and expanded\, and now in paperback. Fies’s harrowing and uplifting tale of loss\, survival\, and the power of community will no doubt resonate with locals\, having experienced our own fire story last August.  \nRegister for this free virtual event here! \nEarly morning on Monday\, October 9\, 2017\, wildfires burned through Northern California\, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition\, 6\,200 homes and 8\,900 structures were destroyed. Author Brian Fies’s firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest\, unflinching depiction of his personal experiences\, including losing his house and every possession he and his wife had that didn’t fit into the back of their car. In the days that followed\, as the fires continued to burn through the area\, Brian hastily pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online–it immediately went viral. He has now expanded his original webcomic to include environmental insight and the fire stories of his neighbors and others in his community. A Fire Story is a candid testimony of the wildfires that left homes destroyed\, families broken\, and a community determined to rebuild. The updated and expanded Fire Story is an affordably priced paperback of 192 pages\, including 32 pages of all-new material\, extending the story past the events of the hardcover edition to include updates on the rebuilding\, wrestling with insurance\, wrangling with contractors\, the management of sometimes volatile emotions\, and the threats of yet another wildfire. \n“A Fire Story is a victim’s testimony as well as a journalistic endeavor.” — Los Angeles Times \n“Sometimes incorporating photographs and often communicating emotion with color\, he affectingly relates the grief\, rage\, and powerlessness of losing one’s home and possessions; each time he remembers another thing he’s lost–home videos he’d been meaning to digitize\, for instance–the pain feels brand-new again. Inviting\, empathy-driven\, and ultimately hopeful in the face of hardship.” — Booklist\, Starred Review \nAUTHOR:\nBrian Fies is a writer and cartoonist of the award-winning graphic novels Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? Although he lost his home\, he and his wife are rebuilding in Santa Rosa\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-brian-fies-a-fire-story/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173338
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Why Trust A Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?
DESCRIPTION:Joanne McNeil\, author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User explores our dependence on Google as the Internet’s Library. But is it? \nA generation ago\, when people had a question they would ask a librarian to look up the answer. Today\, when users have a question\, they Google it.In her 2020 book Lurking: How a Person Became a User\, author Joanne McNeil examines our reliance on large\, corporate platforms–in particular Google– to ingest and archive everything. While early internet services provided a sense of freedom and identity\, we now trust search engines and social media to preserve our blogs\, books\, videos\, and social media forever. But McNeil writes: \nGoogle could replicate information on its own terms\, and with no further commitment to maintaining data\, any information erased or last could be interpreted as something the world itself was missing. \nIn this thought-provoking event\, Why Trust a Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?\, Joanne McNeil is joined by technologist/ artist\, Darius Kazemi\, as they examine how in the 1990’s and early aughts\, people became users\, and users put their trust in a corporation to do the job of a library. \nWhat happens to library values such as privacy\, preservation and enduring access to knowledge in the era of surveillance capitalism? Is Google the “internet’s library\,” and if not\, where should we turn for collections of knowledge at scale? \nPresented by Library Futures & the Internet Archive\, this discussion invites you to explore whether we’ve traded convenience for the protections that libraries have always offered: privacy\, preservation\, and equitable access to knowledge. And if so\, where do we go from here? \nBuy your copy of Lurking from us! The first 50 people to purchase McNeil’s book will receive an autographed copy & be invited to stay after the event to chat with the author. \nAbout the book: \n“A long-overdue people’s history of the internet. Joanne McNeil retells our last three decades online from the perspective of those who actually made it worthwhile—us.” – Claire L. Evans\, author of Broad Band \nOne of Esquire’s Best Books to Elevate Your Reading List in 2020\, and a OneZero Best Tech Book of 2020. Named one of the 100 Notable books of 2020 by the End of the World Review. \nA concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user. \nAbout our speakers: \nJoanne McNeil was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation’s Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam\, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow\, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. \nDarius Kazemi is an internet artist under the moniker Tiny Subversions. His best known works are the Random Shopper (a program that bought him random stuff from Amazon each month) and Content\, Forever (a tool to generate rambling thinkpieces of arbitrary length). He has a small army of Twitter and Tumblr bots that he builds because they make him laugh. He founded NaNoGenMo\, where participants spend a month writing algorithms to generate 50\,000 word novels\, and Bot Summit\, a yearly gathering of people who make art bots. He cofounded Feel Train\, a creative technology cooperative.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-why-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 28 AT 6PM PT WHEN DAMON B. AKINS AND WILLIAM J. BAUER JR. DISCUSS THEIR BOOK\, WE ARE THE LAND: A HISTORY OF NATIVE CALIFORNIA\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82328254294\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82328254294#  or +12532158782\,\,82328254294#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdSz0Pf0cW \nAbout We Are the Land \n“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews \nRewriting the history of California as Indigenous. \nBefore there was such a thing as “California\,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny\, the Gold Rush\, and settler colonial society drew maps\, displaced Indigenous People\, and reshaped the land\, but they did not make California. Rather\, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind\, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians\, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans\, Spanish missions\, Mexican secularization\, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood\, genocide\, efforts to reclaim land\, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history\, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings\, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience. \nAbout the Authors \nWilliam J. Bauer\, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. \nDamon B. Akins is Associate Professor of History at Guilford College\, in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, and a former high school teacher in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-damon-b-akins-and-william-j-bauer-jr-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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