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SUMMARY:Colossus: Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Dena Rod\nKarla Brundage\nPeggy Morrison\nSharon Coleman\nNorma Smith\nZakiyyah G.E. Capehart\n\n\nCarol Dorf
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SUMMARY:Alta Asks Live: Keenan Norris
DESCRIPTION:Author Keenan Norris is joined in conversation by author and Alta contributor Susan Straight on Wednesday\, November 4 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time for an intimate discussion on writing and race in the suburbs of Southern California.\n\n\n\nAuthor Keenan Norris came of age as a member of one of a growing number of Black families who moved to the Inland Empire from Los Angeles in the late 1980s. His essay in the Fall 2020 issue of Alta Journal recounts a childhood amid snakes\, scorpions\, and racism. Norris is joined in conversation by author and Alta contributor Susan Straight for an intimate discussion on writing and race in the suburbs of Southern California. REGISTER \nAbout the author: \nKeenan Norris’s novel\, Brother and the Dancer\, won the 2012 James D. Houston Award. His essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and PopMatters\, among other outlets. His short fiction has appeared in several anthologies\, including Oakland Noir\, Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire\, and San Bernardino\, Singing. He serves as an editor for the Oxford African American Studies Center and teaches American literature and creative writing at San José State University. His next novel\, The Confession of Copeland Cane\, will be published in June 2021. \nAbout the moderator: \nSusan Straight has published eight novels\, including Highwire Moon\, Between Heaven and Here\, and A Million Nightingales. Her memoir\, In the Country of Women\, is Barnes & Noble’s September 2020 Nonfiction Pick. Straight has been a finalist for the National Book Awards\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, and the National Magazine Awards. She is the recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, the Edgar Award for Best Short Story\, the O. Henry Prize\, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her stories and essays have been published in the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Guardian\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, Black Clock\, Harper’s\, and other journals. She is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California\, Riverside. She was born in Riverside\, where she lives with her family.
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - Weather Pat Holt's monthly book discussion group
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Holt\, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, continues her popular book group\, “Contemporary Classics.” \nA book should stand the test of time before becoming a classic\, but very often\, critics and literary judges leap to praise books as “instant classics” soon after publication. These are the titles Pat’s group will hold up to scrutiny—in fact\, the chewier\, more literary\, more dense\, and “hard to read” the better. One needn’t have read widely\, studied literature\, or learned about literary criticism to join. Just drop in or join us for the whole series\, and let the developing wisdom of the group be your only guide. \nEmail Pat to register and to receive a Zoom link for the meeting. You can write to her at p.holt12@comcast.net. \nFall dates: \nOctober 7: Call Me Zebra\, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi \nNovember 4: Weather\, Jenny Offill  \nDecember 2: Nickel Boys\, Colson Whitehead \nJanuary 6: Disappearing Earth\, Julia Phillips \nFebruary 3: The Great Believers\, Rebecca Makkai \n\nAbout Patricia Holt\nPat was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has been writing reviews and book industry commentary at Holt Uncensored since 1998. She has facilitated book groups for the past 15 years and also joins the Marin West Review’s editors\,  Myn Adess and Doris Ober\, on Radio Bookmobile\, a lively discussion on West Marin Community Radio KWMR\, usually the first Thursday of every month at 10-11 a.m.\, about the most beautiful passages and stirring controversies they can find on the current book scene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-classics-weather-pat-holts-monthly-book-discussion-group/
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SUMMARY:Orion Magazine presents Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:An Intimate Conversation About the U.S. Election\, the State of Democracy\, and The Most Radical Thing You Can Do. \nJoin Orion Magazine and Point Reyes Books for a post-Election Day exchange between two of the world’s most prominent voices for justice and the environment\, Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams. Solnit is currently an advisor to Orion\, while Williams is a contributing editor. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. Please REGISTER HERE. \nAbout The Most Radical Thing You Can Do\nThis event marks the publication of Orion’s new anthology\, The Most Radical Thing You Can Do: The Best Political Essays from Orion Magazine. The collection includes work by both Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams\, as well as Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Glenis Redmond\, Bill McKibben\, Winona LaDuke\, Scott Russell Sanders\, Wendell Berry\, Sandra Steingraber\, Barbara Kingsolver\, and others. The book is available here. \nAbout the Authors\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. \nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah.
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Aria Aber
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \nAria Aber\nAria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a Whiting Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, POETRY\, the New Republic\, and elsewhere. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing\, she holds fellowships from Kundiman\, Dickinson House and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. She is a 2020-2022 Stegner Fellow in Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkley-lunch-poems-aria-aber/
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SUMMARY:Jordy Rosenberg in Conversation with Susan Stryke
DESCRIPTION:Jordy Rosenberg in Conversation with Susan Stryker\, 2020–22 Barbara Lee Distinguished Professor of Women’s Leadership (RSVP to receive the event link)\nThursday\, November 5\, 2020 | time TBA | mark your calendar\nJordy Rosenberg is the author of Confessions of the Fox\, a love story set in the eighteenth-century London of notorious thieves and queer subcultures. This genre-bending debut tells a profound story of gender\, desire\, and liberation which Publisher’s Weekly\, in a starred review\, called “Astonishing and mesmerizing.” A New York Times Editors’ Choice Selection\, Confessions has been shortlisted for multiple awards and was named a best book of 2018 by the New Yorker\, Huffington Post\, Kirkus Reviews\, LitHub\, and others. Rosenberg is a Professor of Literature at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst\, where he teaches eighteenth-century literature and gender and sexuality studies. \nCo-sponsored by We Are the Voices.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jordy-rosenberg-in-conversation-with-susan-stryke/
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SUMMARY:Writers Against Trump
DESCRIPTION:Writers Against Trump\nJoin us as writers and booksellers across the nation come together in a day of solidarity. City Lights hosts a regional event featuring Steve Wasserman of Heyday Books as host. He will be joined by activist and writer Roberto Lovato\, activist and poet Margaret Randall\, and San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck. \nEvent is free\, but requires registration \n(CLICK HERE) to register \nWriters Against Trump are American writers who have come together to oppose the racist\, destructive\, incompetent\, corrupt and fascist regime of Donald Trump\, and to give their language\, thought\, and time to his defeat in November. They believe that this presidency is uniquely dangerous to our present and future society. Writers Against Trump collaborates with organizations seeking to encourage voter turnout\, promote candidates who resist the Trump apparatus\, protect the election from fraud and theft\, and mobilize in the event of post-election trouble. \n\nWriters are well-positioned to advocate for our democracy. They understand the strength of words\, of rhetoric. Collectively\, American writing has brought so much change. And Writers Against Trump seek to honor the legacies of the revolutionary writers who came before us by joining in now——and their choir must be deafening. \nThe brutal and criminal regime called an “administration” may remain in power a while longer\, spewing disinformation\, exacerbating ill health\, earth-hatred\, obscene inequality\, race- and woman-hatred\, and encouraging violence\, but as an unintended consequence\, writers and booksellers across the nation are coming together to resist. Join us in this struggle. \nFor more information visit: www.writersagainsttrump.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T143000
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with Karen Tei Yamashita\, author of I-Hotel\, Letters to Memory\, and Sansei and Sensibility. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong and followed by a Q&A session with the audience. \nWHEN: Thursday\, November 5\, 2020 | 2:30 PM PDT \nAbout the books: \nI Hotel – A multi-voiced fusion of prose\, playwriting\, graphic art\, and philosophy that spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas\, one for each year\, I Hotel begins in 1968\, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated\, students took to the streets\, the Vietnam War raged\, and cities burned. \nAs Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students\, laborers\, artists\, revolutionaries\, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day\, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion\, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2497/I_Hotel.html \nLetters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians\, anthropologists\, classicists—their disciplines\, and Yamashita’s engagement with them\, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family\, and our borders\, to ideas of debt\, forgiveness\, civil rights\, orientalism\, and community. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1626/Letters_to_Memory.html \nSansei and Sensibility – In these buoyant and inventive stories\, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance—familial\, cultural\, emotional\, artistic—really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies\, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives’ freezers\, tape-record high school locker-room chatter\, or collect a community’s gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team\, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A.\, bake sales replace ballroom dances\, and station wagons\, not horse-drawn carriages\, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class\, race\, and gender leap into our modern world with wit and humor. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2176/Sansei_and_Sensibility.html \nAbout the Authors: \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nAbout the host: \nAndrew Way Leong is a comparativist who works primarily in Japanese and English with additional interests in Spanish and Portuguese. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre\, gendered embodiment\, and generational time. He is the translator of Lament in the Night. He is currently an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s English Department. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1106/Lament_in_the_Night_.html \n— \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets\, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-tei-yamashita-in-conversation-with-andrew-way-leong/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, November 5 at 5pm when Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain read from their new collections\, Hosts and Guests and Rain in Plural\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83679639869 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83679639869#  or +13462487799\,\,83679639869#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 836 7963 9869\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kmEIyss6Y \nPraise for Hosts and Guests \n“Nate Klug’s Hosts and Guests is a fine book full of rich nuance\, complex emotions\, and sharp observations. These are poems replete with hosts and guests from a wide range of ecosystems in which Horace\, Rihanna\, Leviticus\, Dickinson\, and even Pikachu and Pokémon Go make smooth appearances. Hosts and Guests is a book that feels as though\, in Klug’s own words\, ‘day’s first words // arrive like nets\, flung / from somewhere behind // our heads.’ These are beautifully crafted\, contemplative poems that stay with you long after you’ve read them.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips\, author of Living Weapon: Poems \n“What’s the secret of these fresh and mysterious poems? In their lightness of touch\, clarity\, probity\, and almost Japanese spareness\, they bathe the ordinary in otherworldly light. Cicadas\, young parents\, a baby\, North American bars and highways\, jellyfish\, a Horatian ode\, the death of Pompey\, religious faith feeling its way\, an inchworm shrinking from em dash to hyphen—all find their places\, revealed\, in Nate Klug’s delicately paced syntax and gracious reticence. A book both timely and ageless\, a balm\, a boon.”—Rosanna Warren\, author of So Forth: Poems\n \nAbout Hosts and Guests \nAn exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as “a seduction by way of small astonishments” \nNate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is “an original in Eliot’s sense of the word.” In Hosts and Guests\, his exciting second collection\, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. The poems move from a San Francisco tech bar and a band of Pokémon Go players to the Shakers and St. Augustine\, as they explore the push-pull between community and solitude\, and past and present. Hosts and Guests gathers an impressive range: critiques of the “immiserated quiet” of modern life\, love poems and poems of new fatherhood\, and studies of a restless\, nimble faith. At a time when the meanings of hospitality and estrangement have assumed a new urgency\, Klug takes up these themes in chiseled\, musical lines that blend close observation of the natural world\, social commentary\, and spiritual questioning. As Booklist has observed of his work\, “The visual is rendered sonically\, so perfectly one wants to involve the rest of the senses\, to speak the lines\, to taste the syllables.” \nAbout Rain in Plural \nThe highly anticipated new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize \nRain in Plural is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain\, who has been praised by The Rumpus as a master of musicality and enlightening allusions. In the wholly original world of these new poems\, Sze-Lorrain addresses both private narratives and the overexposed discourse of the polis\, using silence and montage\, lyric and antilyric\, to envision what she calls creating between liberties. With a moral precision embracing us without eschewing I\, she rethinks questions of citizenship\, the selections of sensory memory\, and\, by extension\, the tether of word and image to the actual. She writes\, I accept the truth in newspapers / by holding the murder of my friends against my chest. // To each weather forecast I give thanks: / merci for every outdated // dusk/dawn. Agrippina the Younger\, Franz Kafka\, Bob Dylan\, a butoh performance\, an unnamed Raku tea bowl–each has a place here. Made whole by time and its alteration in timelessness\, synchrony\, coincidences\, and accidents\, Rain in Plural beautifully reveals an elegiac yet ever-evolving inner life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reading-nate-klug-and-fiona-sze-lorrain/
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SUMMARY:Mauro Javier Cárdenas
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nAphasia \npublished by Farrar Straus Giroux \nMauro Javier Cárdenas\, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—”an original\, insubordinate novel” (New York Times)—pens a profound story of literature about a man coming to terms with his dysfunctional Colombian family\, as well as his own behavior\, as an immigrant in America. \n—— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book (Link to be posted soon) \n———– \nAntonio wants to avoid thinking about his sister—even though he knows he won’t be able to avoid thinking about his sister—because his sister is on the run after allegedly threatening to shoot her neighbors\, and has been claiming that Antonio\, Obama\, the Pentagon\, and their mother are all conspiring against her. Nevertheless\, Antonio is going to try his best to be as avoidant as possible\, because he worries that what’s been happening to his sister might somehow infect his relatively contented\, ordered American life\, and destabilize the precarious arrangement with his ex-wife that’s allowed him to stay close to his two daughters. \nIn fact\, he’s busy doing everything except facing his problems head-on: transcribing recordings of his mother speaking about their troubled life in Colombia\, transcribing recordings of his ex-wife speaking about her idyllic life in the Czech Republic; writing about former girlfriends whose words and deeds still recur in his mind; rereading stories by American writers that allow him to skirt the subject of his sister’s state of mind without completely destroying his own. \nWritten in long\, unravelling sentences that accommodate all the detritus of thought—scenes real and imagined\, headphones and heartache\, Toblerones and Thomas Bernhard—Aphasia captures the immensity of the present moment as well as the pain of the past. It cements Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s place as one of the most innovative and extraordinary novelists working today. \nMauro Javier Cárdenas is the author of The Revolutionaries Try Again\, which The New York Times called “an original\, insubordinate novel.” In 2017\, the Hay Festival included him in Bogotá39\, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists working today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mauro-javier-cardenas/
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #1: Cookbooks and Gift Books
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 5\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on cookbooks and giftbooks in the first episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83160582546. \nThis is our first recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/12: Kids & graphic novels;\n11/19: Adult non-fiction\n12/3: Adult fiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\n6120 LaSalle Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94611\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-1-cookbooks-and-gift-books/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T140000
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SUMMARY:Awesome Asian Americans: Children's Story Time with Oliver Chin
DESCRIPTION:It’s about time – rebel girls\, rad women\, little leaders\, and great guys are Asian American too! \nReaders will enjoy learning about 20 trailblazers who have contributed to our country. All compelling personalities\, these unique men and women come from diverse backgrounds and vocations. \nFeatured Asian Americans in the book are:\n-Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (actor)\n-Bruce Lee (martial artist)\n-Mindy Kaling (comedian)\n-Lea Salonga (singer)\n-Yuri Kochiyama (activist)\n-Helen Zia (journalist)\n-and more! \nArtist Juan Calle’s 60 dynamic color illustrations bring these fascinating and relevant portraits to life. Immigrants and their children continue to enrich our nation’s culture. Discover important chapters of American history not covered in school textbooks\, and the marvelous accomplishments of these groundbreaking pioneers. \n—\nAbout the authors and illustrator: \nOliver Chin wrote the popular annual children’s book series Tales from the Chinese Zodiac\, Julie Black Belt\, Welcome to Monster Isle. He co-wrote The Asian Hall of Fame series with Phil Amara. He lives in San Francisco\, CA. \nPhil Amara was an editor at Dark Horse Comics\, and wrote The Nevermen\, The Treehouse Heroes\, and So\, You Wanna Be A Comic Book Artist? He is an elementary school teacher in Boston\, MA. \nJuan Calle founded Liberum Donum Studios (Bogotá\, Colombia) which works on TV\, film\, and video games. Juan created the children’s book Good Dream\, Bad Dream and illustrated The Year of the Rooster and The Asian Hall of Fame series. \nAbout Immedium: \nImmedium\, Inc. inspires a world of imagination\, and creates entertaining books that have multi-dimensional appeal. Based in San Francisco\, CA\, Immedium sits on the Pacific Rim\, a vibrant intersection for crossover cultural trends from Asia and America. Embracing an increasingly diverse and “multimedia” world\, Immedium publishes titles ranging from eye-catching children’s books and contemporary non-fiction to commentaries on art and popular culture. Visit us at www.immedium.com. ​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/awesome-asian-americans-childrens-story-time-with-oliver-chin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Anthony Lee Head with Peter Coyote (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Lee Head’s debut collection\, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road\, tells the story of modern-day runaways escaping the rat race and heading to a tropical paradise in search of a fresh start—a timely  antidote for anyone who has grown weary of quarantines and sheltering in place. \nAnthony knows firsthand the challenges of the expat lifestyle. In a fit of middle-aged madness\, he gave up an established career as a trial lawyer in San Francisco to travel 3500 miles to tropical Mexico\, where for a decade he and his wife ran a small hotel and a margarita bar near the Caribbean Sea. That adventure became the inspiration for this book. Anthony now lives in San Rafael\, California with his wife and an embarrassingly large number of Mexican rescue dogs and cats. He is currently working on both a memoir and a new novel. \nPeter Coyote is the author of the 1960’s counter-culture memoir Sleeping Where I Fall\, which received universally excellent reviews and has been in continuous print since 1999. His second book about mentors and the search for wisdom\, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education\, was nominated as one of the top five non-fiction books published in California in 2015. His third book\, Unmasking Your True Self (the Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha) combines 50 years of Buddhist practice with acting and uses masks and improv exercises to foster liberation experiences and teach people “how to get out of their own way.” It is forthcoming from Inner Traditions Press\, as his first book of poems\, The Tongue of a Crow. \nPeter has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 150 documentary films. An ordained Zen Buddhist priest and transmitted teacher\, Peter is currently giving live weekly dharma talks on Facebook\, preparing for a fourth book called Vernacular Buddhism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-anthony-lee-head-with-peter-coyote-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T193000
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SUMMARY:Ayşegül Savaş Reading
DESCRIPTION:You must register to attend this event! \nFree and Open to the Public. \nCo-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. \n\n\n\n\n\nAyşegül Savaş is the author of Walking on the Ceiling. Her second novel White on White is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, and The Guardian. She lives in Paris.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T213000
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Mia Ruiz
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, NOVEMBER 12\, 2020 AT 7 PM PST – 9:30 PM PST\nDuring Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis month’s Eves at the Beat is curated by the incredible\, sweet Mia Ruiz\, tuning in from Lake County! \nReaders & Performers for this event: \nTBA \nCassandra (she/her\, Berkeley) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \n\n\nTopic: Eves at the Beat w/Mia Ruiz\nTime: Oct 22\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/4171477773\nMeeting ID: 417 147 7773\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,4171477773# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,4171477773# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 417 147 7773\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kehFQLUYO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-curated-by-mia-ruiz/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201108T160000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Elizabeth Strout (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Strout‘s latest novel\, Olive Again\, continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge\, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions. \nElizabeth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive\, Again\, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible\, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton\, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys\, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me\, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle\, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction\, the International Dublin Literary Award\, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines\, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth lives in New York City. \nCathleen Schine‘s most recent work is the best-selling novel The Grammarians. She is also the author of The Love Letter\, Rameau’s Niece\, Alice in Bed\, To the Birdhouse\, The Evolution of Jane\, She Is Me\, The New Yorkers\, The Three Weissmanns of Westport\, Fin & Lady\, and They May Not Mean To\, But They Do. In addition to her novels\, she has written articles for The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Sunday Magazine\, and The New York Times Book Review\, among other publications. Her essays have been included in Best American Essays 2005\, Fierce Pajamas\, an Anthology of New Yorker Humor\, and The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs. She grew up in Westport\, Ct. and lives in Venice\, California. \n  \nBelow\, please find links to purchase their books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-elizabeth-strout-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:November Manuscript Intensive Program
DESCRIPTION:Send your book out without the self-doubt. Instead work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape.   In this month-long one-on-one intensive\, an experienced published author will closely read your entire book and mentor you\, giving focused editorial feedback on the first 25 pages and an editorial letter to guide revision of the rest. \nThere will be significant opportunity for extended correspondence with your mentor\, who will provide specific suggestions for revision and offer general advice on the current state of publishing\, and next steps for you to take in your publishing journey. Work with us before sending out your manuscript to help your book really shine! \n\nHow it works:\n\nThe San Francisco Creative Writing Institute Manuscript Intensive is a four-week\, one-on-one mentorship with a published writer to get help with your completed prose manuscript (novel\, memoir or other non-fiction\, essay or story collection) and receive valuable feedback for revision or submission to agents or publishers.\n\nIf you have a completed manuscript and want to know what the next steps to take are\, this is the course for you.\n\n\n\n\n\nNext Steps:\nAfter you register\, you’ll email the manuscript to us at mentor@sfwriting.institute along with tendering a retainer fee. \n\nWe will look at your manuscript and assign you one of our mentors based on your work and their specialties. Read up on our list of mentors here.\n\n\n\n\nWeekly Schedule: November 09\, 2020 – December 04\, 2020\, All Day\nWeek 1 – Your mentor will spend the first week of the month reading your entire book. \n\nWeek 2 – In the second week you will receive an editorial mark-up of the first chapter or first 25 pages (whichever is most appropriate) and an editorial letter oriented toward revision.\n\nWeek 3 – In the third week\, you can initiate an email conversation about the edits and feedback\, and even offer a revision of the first pages for a “second look.”\n\nWeek 4 – In the final week\, your mentor will respond to your commentary and any possible revisions to the opening pages and offer final guidance for revision or submission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/november-manuscript-intensive-program/
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Online Evening Literary Seminar: Let's Pretend This Never Happened\, Jenny Lawson
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Lawson’s ridiculously eccentric childhood in Texas—combined with a hefty dose of anxiety\, depression and serious intelligence—makes for a hilariously dark memoir that will bring the comic relief we might all need in November. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened feels like a Mary Karr-David Sedaris-Amy Poehler mash-up\, a look at how to cope when things are just plain absurd. It would be a crime during this Covid fall NOT to turn to Lawson for commiseration\, solace and some much-needed laughs. \nJoin Kimberly to delve deeper into a novel that has been described as “transformed by intragenerational retelling rather than passed down\,” one made up of “quick and dirty mythmaking\,” a book we should all be reading now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-evening-literary-seminar-lets-pretend-this-never-happened-jenny-lawson/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T200000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Far Away Places"
DESCRIPTION:Odd Mondays Reading “Far Away Places”\n\nNow that the election is (sort of) over\, are you looking for escape? Or were you already ready to book passage? Either way\, books offer that respite in another place and time\, especially the three their authors are reading at Odd Mondays Nov.9\, 7pm Pacific. Travel first-class via Zoom. Get your ticket by responding Going or Interested at https://bit.ly/37PzrrW. Here’s more about the books to start you dreaming. You can buy all 3 at www.foliosf.com \n\nALL THE RIGHT PLACES by Wayne Goodman is a collection of short stories\, most written for submission to anthologies or collections. Starting in the near future and proceeding to the near past\, men interact with other men in the pursuit of love and companionship from a future of artificial lovers to Civil War California to 17th Century Japan. Waynegoodmanbooks\nTHE UNPASSING by Chia-Chia Lin was a NY Times Books Review Editors’ Choice. In this debut novel\, a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggles to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage\, Alaska. THE UNPASSING is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the American dream for a harsher\, but ultimately more profound\, reality.\n\nIn June of 1940\, when Paris fell to the Nazis\, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving\, never to return. To this day\, no one knows why. Cara Black\, the New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations\, reimagines history in her masterful\, pulse-pounding spy thriller\, THREE HOURS IN PARIS.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-far-away-places/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T200000
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SUMMARY:San José Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:San José Poetry Slam\nSunday\, November 8\, 6:30pm sign-ups\, 7pm slam!\nFeaturing Michael Jasso\nHosted by San Jose Slammaster Scorpiana Xlent!\nZoom information to be announced on Facebook\nRoom opens at 6:30 pm\nSign up list will be open from 6:30 to 7pm\, Slam starts at 7\nThis is a free event! \nFollow the Slam on Facebook! \nMichael Jasso (not to be confused for your dad) is a poet\, teaching artist and organizer based out of California’s Central Valley. He is the founder of The Loud Mouth Poetry Jam\, Visalia’s premiere slam venue for 8+ years. Since he started competing 11 years ago he’s represented his venue at NPS 2014 & 2015\, competed as a storm poet at IWPS 2018\, and has coached several of Visalia’s reps. Much like your dad\, he tells cringey jokes\, loves grilling\, and askes if your oil has been changed as his form of “I love you.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-jose-poetry-slam-5/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T210000
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SUMMARY:Bookseller Happy Hour: GIFT PICKS
DESCRIPTION:Make gift giving easy! Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers share terrific books that make great gifts for everyone on your list. Have your holiday list nearby and get ready to check it off and finish your shopping. \nRegister for this free event on Crowdcast here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookseller-happy-hour-gift-picks/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T193000
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SUMMARY:SIP & LEARN: THE ART OF THE STENCIL WITH KRISTIN HUGO
DESCRIPTION:Grab a cocktail and join us for another edition of Odd Salon Happy Hour Sip and Learn.\n\nOdd Salon Fellow and stencil artist Kristin Hugo will be sharing with us the history and art of the stencil. So get ready to get to use your hands and make a stencil.\n\nTues\, Nov 10\, 6pm PT/9pm ET\nOdd Salon Sip & Learn\nTHE ART OF THE STENCIL\nOdd Salon Happy Hours are private community events\, free for all Members\, Patreon Supporters\, and Fellows. Zoom details will be sent out via email and Patreon post. \nPatreon Supporters and Members are our heroes\, keeping us afloat and participating in our crazy Zoom experiments during these uncertain times without theaters. \n\nSip & Learn: The Art of the Stencil with Kristin Hugo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sip-learn-the-art-of-the-stencil-with-kristin-hugo/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T200000
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SUMMARY:Maw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Omnidawn Books present \nMaw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo \n \nreading from new poetry \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House – by Maw Shein Win \nand \nQuiet Orient Riot – by Nathalie Khankan \n   \n——- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase books \n———– \nabout Storage Unit for the Spirit House \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, spirits believed to have the power to influence everyday lives\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nAssemblages of both earthly and noncorporeal possessions throughout the collection become resonant and alive\, and Win must summon “a circle of drums and copper bells” to appease the nats who have moved into a long-ago family house. This careful curation of unlikely objects and images becomes an act of ritual collection that uses language to interrogate how pain in life can transform someone into a nat or a siren that lives on. Restrained lines request our imagination as we move with the poet through haunted spaces and the objects that inhabit them. \nabout Quiet Orient Riot \nTracing the conception of a child through to her birth\, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction\, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherhood. Through these poems\, Nathalie Khankan considers what it means to bear a Palestinian child in the occupied Palestinian territory\, particularly with a pregnancy enabled through contingent access to Israel’s sophisticated fertility treatment infrastructure. The poems confront questions of how to be a national vessel and to bear a body whose very creation is enabled by the pronatalist state\, yet not recognized by it. \nWhile Quiet Orient Riot chronicles a journey that is specific and localized\, the larger questions that emerge from these poems reach beyond this particular story. The book asks questions of itself\, wondering what kind of language may hold precarious life and what kind of poem may see an unborn body through emergency\, diminishment\, and into blossoming. \nThrough the trials of pregnancy and birth\, demographic and religious imperatives\, these poems are concerned with many kinds of worship. They bow to a “chirpy printed sound\,” “what grows in the rubble\,” and “the capacity for happiness despite visual evidence.” Wherever you look\, there are water holes for the thirsty and a grove of “little justices.” \nMaw Shein Win is the author of Invisible Gifts: Poems and her chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Maw is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016–18). She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nNathalie Khankan teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and she is the founding director of the Danish House in Palestine. Her work has previously appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, and Crab Creek Review. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughters. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Children of the Land published by HarperCollins. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nOmnidawn Publishing\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand our community of writers and readers through the work they choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Their intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. mnidawn books are frequently reviewed in Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Rain Taxi\, Lana Turner\, The Journal\, Jacket\, and Pleiades\, and have been reviewed in Chicago Review\, American Book Review\, The Village Voice\, The Midwest Book Review\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, HOW2\, The New Review of Literature\, Small Press Traffic Newsletter\, Electronic Poetry Review\, Interim\, and ARC (Canada’s National Poetry Magazine)\, as well as many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maw-shein-win-with-nathalie-khankan-and-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T200000
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SUMMARY:Maw Shein Win and Nathalie Khankan with Su Hwang and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Maw Shein Win and Nathalie Khankan celebrating new Omnidawn Books with Su Hwang and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo \n       \nreading from new poetry \nCity Lights celebrates the book launch of \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House – by Maw Shein Win \n \nand \nQuiet Orient Riot – by Nathalie Khankan \n \n——- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase books \n———– \nabout Storage Unit for the Spirit House \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, spirits believed to have the power to influence everyday lives\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nAssemblages of both earthly and noncorporeal possessions throughout the collection become resonant and alive\, and Win must summon “a circle of drums and copper bells” to appease the nats who have moved into a long-ago family house. This careful curation of unlikely objects and images becomes an act of ritual collection that uses language to interrogate how pain in life can transform someone into a nat or a siren that lives on. Restrained lines request our imagination as we move with the poet through haunted spaces and the objects that inhabit them. \nabout Quiet Orient Riot \nTracing the conception of a child through to her birth\, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction\, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherhood. Through these poems\, Nathalie Khankan considers what it means to bear a Palestinian child in the occupied Palestinian territory\, particularly with a pregnancy enabled through contingent access to Israel’s sophisticated fertility treatment infrastructure. The poems confront questions of how to be a national vessel and to bear a body whose very creation is enabled by the pronatalist state\, yet not recognized by it. \nWhile Quiet Orient Riot chronicles a journey that is specific and localized\, the larger questions that emerge from these poems reach beyond this particular story. The book asks questions of itself\, wondering what kind of language may hold precarious life and what kind of poem may see an unborn body through emergency\, diminishment\, and into blossoming. \nThrough the trials of pregnancy and birth\, demographic and religious imperatives\, these poems are concerned with many kinds of worship. They bow to a “chirpy printed sound\,” “what grows in the rubble\,” and “the capacity for happiness despite visual evidence.” Wherever you look\, there are water holes for the thirsty and a grove of “little justices.” \nMaw Shein Win is the author of Invisible Gifts: Poems and her chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Maw is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016–18). She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nNathalie Khankan teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and she is the founding director of the Danish House in Palestine. Her work has previously appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, and Crab Creek Review. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughters. \nSu Hwang is a recipient of the inaugural Jerome Hill Fellowship in Literature\, the Academy of America Poets James Wright Prize\, and writer-in-residence fellowships to Dickinson House and Hedgebrook\, among others\, Her debut poetry collection BODEGA\, published with Milkweed Editions\, won the 2020 Minnesota Book Awards in poetry. Born in Seoul\, Korea\, Su Hwang has called NYC and San Francisco home before transplanting to the Twin Cities to attend the University of Minnesota\, where she received her MFA in poetry. She teaches with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW)\, and is the co-founder of Poetry Asylum with poet/educator/activist/healer Sun Yung Shin. She currently lives in South Minneapolis. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Children of the Land published by HarperCollins. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nOmnidawn Publishing\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand our community of writers and readers through the work they choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Their intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. mnidawn books are frequently reviewed in Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Rain Taxi\, Lana Turner\, The Journal\, Jacket\, and Pleiades\, and have been reviewed in Chicago Review\, American Book Review\, The Village Voice\, The Midwest Book Review\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, HOW2\, The New Review of Literature\, Small Press Traffic Newsletter\, Electronic Poetry Review\, Interim\, and ARC (Canada’s National Poetry Magazine)\, as well as many other publications.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Well-RED
DESCRIPTION:Well-RED\nReading Series\nTuesday\, November 10\, 7:00pm\nfeaturing “California Burning: NorCal and Coast” \nonline on Zoom\nregister here and join at the event time! \nor phone in +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\nMeeting ID: 884 6963 7981\, Passcode: 641280\nor find your local number here \nReaders for California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology:\nOpal Palmer Adisa\nKirsten Casey\nMolly Fisk\nRafael Jesus Gonzaléz\nMaxima Kahn\nDevi S. Laskar\nIndigo Moor\nSarah Pape\nKim Shuck\nAlan Soldofsky \nReaders for Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California:\nSusan Cohen\nLucille Lang Day\nIris Jamahl Dunkle\nDonna Emerson\nMaureen Eppstein\nBen Gucciardi\nTobey Hiller\nSusan Kelly-DeWitt\nKathleen McClung\nRuth Nolan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-5/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, November 10\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Brit Bennett’s new novel\, THE VANISHING HALF. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275010328. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpSweeney\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/SweeneyAB. \nDescription\nAn accomplished storyteller returns with her biggest\, boldest\, most entertaining novel yet—a hilarious\, heartfelt story about books\, love\, sisterhood\, and the surprises we discover in our DNA that combines the wit of Jonathan Tropper with the heart of Susan Wiggs. \nMaggie\, Eliza\, and Tricia Sweeney grew up as a happy threesome in the idyllic seaside town of Southport\, Connecticut. But their mother’s death from cancer fifteen years ago tarnished their golden-hued memories\, and the sisters drifted apart. Their one touchstone is their father\, Bill Sweeney\, an internationally famous literary lion and college professor universally adored by critics\, publishers\, and book lovers. When Bill dies unexpectedly one cool June night\, his shell-shocked daughters return to their childhood home. They aren’t quite sure what the future holds without their larger-than-life father\, but they do know how to throw an Irish wake to honor a man of his stature. \nBut as guests pay their respects and reminisce\, one stranger\, emboldened by whiskey\, has crashed the party. It turns out that she too is a Sweeney sister. \nWhen Washington\, DC based journalist Serena Tucker had her DNA tested on a whim a few weeks earlier\, she learned she had a 50% genetic match with a childhood neighbor—Maggie Sweeney of Southport\, Connecticut. It seems Serena’s chilly WASP mother\, Birdie\, had a history with Bill Sweeney—one that has remained totally secret until now. \nOnce the shock wears off\, questions abound. What does this mean for William’s literary legacy? Where is the unfinished memoir he’s stashed away\, and what will it reveal? And how will a fourth Sweeney sister—a blond among redheads—fit into their story? \nBy turns revealing\, insightful\, and uproarious\, The Sweeney Sisters is equal parts cautionary tale and celebration—a festive and heartfelt look at what truly makes a family. \nAbout the Author\n\nLian Dolan is a writer and broadcaster\, whose name is pronounced like “Liam” but with an “n.”  She is the creator and host of “Satellite Sisters”\, the award-winning and top-rated radio talk show she produces with her four real sisters: Julie\, Liz\, Sheila\, and Monica. She also created the popular podcast about modern motherhood\, “The Chaos Chronicles”\, developed by Nick at Nite for TV. Lian is the author of two Los Angeles Times best-selling novels\, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife\, and a regular columnist for Pasadena Magazine. A graduate of Pomona College in Claremont\, she now lives in Pasadena\, California with her husband and two sons.
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SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: The Culture of Despair
DESCRIPTION:Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Project Censored \nHosted by Mickey Huff \nWith the election over\, it’s the perfect time to get the reliably candid response of one of our few great journalists. \n“Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual warrior who confronts American empire in the most incisive\, challenging ways. The insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our nation cannot be found anywhere else. Like many of our most important thinkers\, he has been relegated to the margins because of ideas deemed too radical-or true-for public consumption. Whether it is covering the dissolution of former Soviet states or embedding in the Middle East to understand the post-9/11 world\, he has been a singular voice pushing against mainstream media disinformation and the amnesia of establishment received wisdom. He is an intellectual heir to American radical heroes such as Thomas Paine and Noam Chomsky\, and is dedicated to reigniting a shared commitment to radical equality and honesty.” \nPulitzer Prize-winning Chris Hedges spent nearly two decades as a correspondent in Central America\, the Middle East\, Africa\, and the Balkans\, with 15 years at the New York Times. His books include Empire of Illusion; Death of the Liberal Class; War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning; Days of Destruction\, Days of Revolt; and Wages of Rebellion. He currently writes a weekly column for Truthdig. \nMickey Huff is the Director of Project Censored\, President of the Media Freedom Foundation\, and executive producer/co-host of the Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio. His latest books include Censored 2020: Though the Looking Glass (co-edited with Andy Lee Roth) from Seven Stories Press and United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It) co-authored with Nolan Higdon from City Lights Publishing. www.projectcensored.org \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-hedges-the-culture-of-despair/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alta Asks Live: Eddie Muller
DESCRIPTION:Grab your popcorn and settle in for a chat with Eddie Muller\, host of Turner Classic Movies’ Noir Alley and founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation. Muller will join Alta Asks Live on Wednesday\, November 11 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time to spill the beans on what makes noir so imeless\, help us define the genre\, reveal his favorite films\, and answer all of your noir queries. REGISTER \nAbout the guest: \nEddie Muller is one of the world’s foremost authorities on film noir. As founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation\, he is a leading figure in film restoration and preservation and a familiar face and voice on the international film festival circuit\, as well as the host of Turner Classic Movies’ popular Noir Alley franchise. He is also a noted author of both fiction and nonfiction books\, including the Shamus Award–winning crime novel The Distance and the New York Times bestseller Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-asks-live-eddie-muller/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Andrea Bemis (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Bemis’ second cookbook\, Local Dirt: Seasonal Recipes for Eating Close to Home\, is a dazzling collection of inventive recipes using farm-fresh ingredients\, inspired by her commitment to supporting the local food movement. \nAndrea is the writer\, recipe developer\, and photographer behind the cookbook Dishing Up The Dirt and the food blog of the same name. Andrea’s recipes focus on using whole\, locally-sourced foods—incorporating the philosophy of eating as close to the land as possible. Her recipes have been featured in publications such as The New York Times\, Well and Good NYC\, and Eating Well Magazine. She lives and runs a sixty-acre organic farm outside of Portland\, Oregon with her husband and their dog. \nErin Gleeson is the author\, illustrator\, and photographer behind the New York Times bestselling cookbooks The Forest Feast\, The Forest Feast for Kids\, The Forest Feast Gatherings\, and The Forest Feast Mediterranean\, as well as the popular blog by the same name. Erin teaches Photography in Continuing Studies at Stanford University and lives in a cabin in the woods in Northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-andrea-bemis-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Shannon Messenger with Roshani Chokshi
DESCRIPTION:We are absolutely thrilled to invite you to celebrate the launch of Unlocked\, Shannon Messenger’s latest novel in the New York Times\, USA Today\, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series\, which follows Sophie\, a girl who discovers she’s from another world that exists side by side with ours—and one that has given her amazing abilities. \nIn this extra special installment of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series\, the story picks up right from Legacy’s particularly devastating cliffhanger. But chapters alternate between Sophie and Keefe’s perspectives to give readers deeper insights into both beloved characters. New powers will be discovered. Hard truths from the past will come to light. And all of your favorite characters will find themselves tested in ways they never imagined. Unlocked also includes a comprehensive guide to the world of the Lost Cities\, featuring new character and world details that have never been revealed before—plus fun bonuses like Keeper-themed recipes\, a detailed map of the Lost Cities\, and gorgeous full-color illustrations. \nShannon will be chatting with Roshani Chokshi\, the author of the instant New York Times best-selling first book in the Pandava series\, Aru Shah and the End of Time\, and its sequels\, Aru Shah and the Song of Death. and Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes. She also wrote the New York Times best-selling YA books The Star-Touched Queen series and The Gilded Wolves series. \nDon’t wait – RSVP early to guarantee your spot in this webinar. Shannon’s presentations are always so much fun and sell out early.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shannon-messenger-with-roshani-chokshi-2/
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