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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang)\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nMonkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco – complete with murder and mayhem! \nClaire Light is such an important part of KSW’s history and we’re immensely proud to help her celebrate this debut novel (written under the pen name\, Jadie Jang). Join us for a live reading and discussion with Claire and some of her special guests. \nWe’ll be having a limited live in-person audience and a simulcast on Zoom. Books will be available at the event thanks to Eastwind Books. If you’re joining us online\, we encourage you to order the book directly from their site: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/ \nAbout Monkey Around \nBarista\, activist\, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well\, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances\, shapeshifter murders\, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door\, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well\, most of them. The urgent ones\, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief. \nAbout the Author \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is almost as organizy as her characters. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-monkey-around-by-jadie-jang/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
DESCRIPTION:(UPDATE: We are canceling the live in-person reading and will shift to online only\, please RSVP to receive the link to Zoom room or join us on Youtube or Facebook)\n\nWe are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang)\n\nMonkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco – complete with murder and mayhem!\n\nClaire Light is such an important part of KSW and we’re immensely proud to help her celebrate this debut novel (written under the pen name\, Jadie Jang). Join us for a live reading and discussion with Claire and some of her special guests.\n\nWe encourage you to order your copy of Monkey Around from Eastwind Books: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/\n\nAbout Monkey Around\nBarista\, activist\, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well\, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances\, shapeshifter murders\, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door\, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well\, most of them. The urgent ones\, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief.\n\nAbout the Author\nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is almost as organizy as her characters. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-monkey-around-by-jadie-jang-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic #70
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\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:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\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.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\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
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series - Opposites Attract Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Words out Loud is a monthly first Friday spoken word series. Months alternate between featured readers and an Opposites Attract thematic open mic focusing on opposites. For August\, bring one poem each on the topics of high(s) and low(s)\, interpreted as you choose. Time allotted will depend on the number of participants but will likely be 2-3 minutes each.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-opposites-attract-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kat Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Kat Zhang\, children’s book author of Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao in an interactive food-themed read-aloud certain to delight. Learn how the mixture of culture and perseverance through cooking and food\, results in perfection through practice. For kids and their families. \nWatch this on YouTube. \nAbout Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao: Amy loves to make bao with her family. But it takes skill to make the bao taste and look delicious. And her bao keep coming out all wrong. Then she has an idea that may give her a second chance. Will Amy ever make the perfect bao? \nKat Zhang has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember. After a childhood spent living in books\, she now builds stories for other people to visit. In addition to her Young Adult trilogy\, The Hybrid Chronicles\, she has also published two Middle Grade novels\, The Emperor’s Riddle and The Memory of Forgotten Things\, as well as two picture books\, Amy Wu & the Perfect Bao and Amy Wu & the Patchwork Dragon. The third in the series\, Amy Wu & the Warm Welcome\, will release in Summer 2022. \nConnect: Kat Zhang – Facebook | Kat Zhang – Instagram | Kat Zhang – Twitter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2021 Summer Stride\n\n\nSummer Stride is the Library’s annual summer learning\, reading and exploration program for all ages and abilities. Read and learn with the Library all summer long. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nATTENDING PROGRAMS\nQuestions about the program or problems registering? Contact sfplcpp@sfpl.org. For accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER\nThis program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link\, you will leave SFPL’s website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect personally identifying information about you\, such as name\, username\, email address\, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each third-party website or service that you visit or use\, including those third parties with whom you interact through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links\, please see the section of SFPL’s Privacy Policy describing Links to Other Sites. \nThe views and opinions expressed in programs presented by groups unaffiliated with SFPL do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SFPL or the City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kat-zhang/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Beautiful Black Books featuring Tolu Agbelusi!
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Center San José presents its new program Beautiful Black Books featuring Tolu Agbelusi reading and in conversation with host Tshaka Campbell!\nTolu Agbelusi is the author of Locating Strongwoman (Jacaranda Books 2020). A Nigerian British poet\, playwright and educator\, her work has been published nationally and internationally. She was shortlisted for the 2018 White Review Poetry Prize and has performed widely including at Cheltenham Lit Festival\, Stanza International Poetry Festival\, Lagos International Poetry Festival & Poetry Africa. Founder of Home Sessions\, a poetry development program for Black poets\, she has created and led workshops at universities\, youth centres\, art organisations\, schools\, etc. For more information about her work\, visit www.ToluAgbelusi.com\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81359770764…\nMeeting ID: 813 5977 0764\nPasscode: 376494\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,81359770764#\,\,\,\,*376494# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,81359770764#\,\,\,\,*376494# US (Tacoma)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 813 5977 0764\nPasscode: 376494\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbfzQeT6F0\nThis will be a recurring program featuring Black writers in conversation followed by a Q&A for an audience that will also include young writers of Santa Clara County and surrounding communities. Subjects of discussion will include sources of inspiration that were formative\, particularly the work of writers and poets.\nPoetry Center San José promotes and supports the literary arts in San José. Over the past four decades\, PCSJ has brought hundreds of exceptional writers from around the country to read from their works and\, in many cases\, to conduct workshops for local writers. PCSJ is a nonprofit organization established in 1978. Its base of operations is in the charming turn-of-the-century Victorian home where the renown poet Edwin Markham once lived\, now located in San Jose History Park. Since the Fall of 2000\, PCSJ has sponsored a series of readings by local poets throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded\, in part\, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation\, the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affairs\, Poets & Writers\, Silicon Valley Community Foundation\, Silicon Valley Creates\, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and generous giving from Anne & Mark’s Art Party.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beautiful-black-books-featuring-tolu-agbelusi/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Marc Ribot in conversation with Elliott Sharp
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.         \n\ncelebrating the launch of Mark Ribot’s new book \nUnstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist \npublished by Akashic Books \n\nIconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot offers up essays and stories in this darkly funny and subversive debut collection. \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———– \nThroughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time\, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot has consistently defied expectation at every turn. Here\, in his first collection of writing\, we see that same uncompromising sensibility at work as he playfully interrogates our assumptions about music\, life\, and death. Through essays\, short stories\, and the occasional unfilmable film “mistreatment” that showcase the sheer range of his voice\, Unstrung captures an artist whose versatility on the page rivals his dexterity onstage. \nIn the first section of the book\, “Lies and Distortion\,” Ribot turns his attention to his instrument—”my relation to the guitar is one of struggle; I’m constantly forcing it to be something else”—and reflects on his influences (and friends) like Robert Quine (The Voidoids) and producer Hal Willner (Saturday Night Live)\, while delivering an impassioned plea on behalf of artists’ rights. Elsewhere\, we glimpse fragments of Ribot’s life as a traveling musician—he captures both the monotony of touring as well as small moments of beauty and despair on the road. In the heart of the collection\, “Sorry\, We’re Experiencing Technical Difficulties\,” Ribot offers wickedly humorous short stories that synthesize the best elements of the Russian absurdist tradition with the imaginative heft of George Saunders. Taken together\, these stories and essays cement Ribot’s position as one of the most dynamic and creative voices of our time. \nListen to an interview with Marc Ribot at The Quarantine Tapes (Literary Hub). \nMARC RIBOT has released twenty-five albums under his own name over a forty-year career\, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of Arsenio Rodríguez. Rolling Stone points out that “Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new\, weird Americana on 1985’s Rain Dogs\, and since then he’s become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss\, Elvis Costello\, John Mellencamp.” Additional recording credits include Neko Case\, Diana Krall\, Elton John/Leon Russell’s The Union\, Solomon Burke\, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards\, Marianne Faithfull\, Joe Henry\, Allen Toussaint\, Medeski\, Martin & Wood\, Caetano Veloso\, Allen Ginsberg\, Madeleine Peyroux\, Norah Jones\, the Black Keys\, and many others. Ribot works regularly with GRAMMY Award–winning producer T Bone Burnett and New York composer John Zorn. He has also composed and performed on numerous film scores such as Walk the Line\, The Kids Are All Right\, and The Departed. Unstrung is his latest work. \nELLIOTT SHARP is a contemporary classical composer\, multi-instrumentalist\, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s\, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from contemporary classical\, avant-garde\, free improvisation\, jazz\, experimental\, and orchestral music to noise\, no wave\, and electronic music. He is the author of the book IrRational Music published by Terra Nova Press. \nWhat is being said about UNSTRUNG \n“Unstrung has all the honesty\, original angles\, beauty\, and clangor found in Marc Ribot’s playing. His compassionate writing about Frantz Casseus gives a human face to his calls for artists’ rights. Like life itself\, this book is bloody\, funny\, and bloody funny.”\n—Elvis Costello\, musician \n“An insightful tour through the razor-sharp mind of one of the world’s most original and influential guitar masters. Ribot’s acerbic wit\, self-deprecating humor\, and profoundly vexing love-hate relationship with all things guitar make for a fun and stimulating read.”\n—John Zorn\, musician \n“Ribot writes with great care for words\, for sounds . . . A good writer\, like a good musician\, and Ribot is both\, needs to know what they’re composing to be able to understand it\, maybe even do it better the next time. His stories are moving and compassionate . . . revelatory\, honest\, and insightful . . .”\n—Lynne Tillman\, from the Introduction \n“In the beginning\, we may have thought Marc Ribot was a full-time Lower East Side tenants rights activist who moonlit as an ubiquitous downtown noise guitarist. Now we come to find out he’s a phenomenal essay writer who has the nerve to be one of our loudest and most beloved electric jazz improvisers . . . [Ribot] composes essays about music and life of sublime wit\, probity\, and severe self-reckoning . . .”\n—Greg Tate\, author of Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture \n“Don’t let the fact that I am calling Marc Ribot a thinking musician distract from the raw and the righteous aspects of his playing and of this book. You have to love something completely to want to look for a way out. Here is more proof of Marc’s love and understanding of music\, of those who make it and of all the imaginings that it might jar loose!”\n—Arto Lindsay\, musician \n“Marc Ribot\, the thinking person’s roving guitar wrangler\, always has something on his mind. It’s great to drift around in the woods and fields (and airports) behind the forehead of this man one’s known before mostly by the music he’s made. Take a ramble with Marc.”\nRichard Hell\, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-ribot-in-conversation-with-elliott-sharp/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Publication of Anthony Veasna So's Afterparties: A Tribute Panel
DESCRIPTION:Sat.\, August 7\, 2021 • 4:00pm PT • Live • Online \nPanelists include: Bryan Washington\, Monica Sok\, and Mira Jacob \nModerated by Alex Torres \nExcerpt of Afterparties read by Anthony Veasna So’s sister\, Samantha So Lamb \nBUY THE BOOK  WATCH HERE  JOIN OUR E-NEWSLETTER\nThis event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view\, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event\, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.\n  \nA vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic\, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities. \nSeamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted\, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth\, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California\, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race\, sexuality\, friendship\, and family. \nThe stories in Afterparties\, “powered by So’s skill with the telling detail\, are like beams of wry\, affectionate light\, falling from different directions on a complicated\, struggling\, beloved American community” (George Saunders). \nAnthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, n+1\, Granta\, and ZYZZYVA. Born and raised in Stockton\, California\, he lived in San Francisco. A native of Stockton\, California\, he taught at Colgate University\, Syracuse University\, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, California. \nMira Jacob is a novelist\, memoirist\, illustrator\, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award\, and her novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews\, the Boston Globe\, Goodreads\, Bustle\, and The Millions. She lives in Brooklyn. \nMonica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Poetry Society of America\, and others. Sok is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Alongside Anthony Veasna So and Danny Thanh Nguyen\, she taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, California. \nAlex Torres studied English and Spanish literature at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá\, Colombia\, and has worked at Business Insider and other startups. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in BuzzFeed\, The Millions\, Poets & Writers Magazine\, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance\, Hobart\, and elsewhere. Based in San Francisco\, he is currently working on a collection of essays and a collection of short stories. \nBryan Washington is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree\, NBCC Award Finalist\, and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He received the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for his first book\, Lot\, which was also a finalist for the NBCC’s John Leonard Prize\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He has written for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, and BuzzFeed\, among other publications. His bestselling debut novel Memorial was a GMA Book Club pick\, a New York Times Notable pick\, one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year\, and a finalist for the NBCC Fiction Prize. He lives in Houston. \n  \nBryan Washington photo by Dailey Hubbard; Monica Sok photo by Andria Lo; Mira Jacob photo by Beowulf Sheehan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-publication-of-anthony-veasna-sos-afterparties-a-tribute-panel/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Authors on the Street @ Inner Sunset Flea
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, August 8th at 12pm PT for the latest Authors on the Street event at Inner Sunset Flea! \nFeaturing writers Jazmin Darznik\, Michael Warr\, Emily Willingham\, Jadie Jang\, and Barbara Jane Reyes \nHosted by Charlie Jane Anders \nLocated at the San Franpsycho Stage of the Inner Sunset Flea Market \nat 9th Ave and Irving St \nAbout this Event \nAn in-person\, outdoor literary event featuring poetry\, science\, literary fiction\, fantasy and MORE! \nYES\, in-person book events are *back*! The Inner Sunset Flea has graciously allowed us to feature some authors with new and recent books. Just to be clear: this is an in-person\, outdoor reading\, with no zoom screens or webcams or headphones involved. (We love virtual events\, but we’ve missed seeing people’s faces in person.) \nOnce again\, this event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, with book sales by Green Apple Books on the Park. This time around\, Authors on the Street features: \nJasmin Darznik \nMichael Warr \nEmily Willingham \nJadie Jang \nBarbara Jane Reyes \nAbout the Authors \nJasmin Darznik is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bohemians\, a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco. The novel was chosen by the New York Times and Oprah Daily as one of the best books of historical fiction in 2021. Her debut novel\, Song of a Captive Bird\, was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Darznik is also the author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and she has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. She is a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts. You can learn more about her at www.jasmindarznik.com. \nSan Francisco poet Michael Warr is a 2021 San Francisco Artist Grantee and 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, and The Armageddon of Funk and We Are All The Black Boy from Tia Chucha Press. He is a San Francisco Library Laureate\, recipient of a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His poetry is translated into Chinese by poet Chun Yu as part of the “Two Languages / One Community” project. Michael is a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nEmily Willingham is the author of Phallacy: Life Lessons From the Animal Penis. Willingham is a journalist and science writer who earned a PhD in biology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in urology\, both after taking a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She is coauthor of The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child’s First Four Years\, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Aeon\, Undark\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and many other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Scientific American. \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is the author of Monkey Around. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter. \nBarbara Jane Reyes was born in 1971 in Manila\, Philippines\, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in creative writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University. Reyes’s poetry collections include Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the California Book Award\, and Diwata (BOA Editions\, 2010). Her first book\, Gravities of Center\, was published by Arkipelago Books in 2003\, and her second book\, Poeta en San francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005) received the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has taught at Mills College and the University of San Francisco. She is an adjunct professor in the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program at University of San Francisco. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-authors-on-the-street-inner-sunset-flea/
LOCATION:Inner Sunset Flea Market\, 800 Irving Street\, San Francisco\, 94122
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Jose Poetry Slam Zoom Slam feat Deonte Osayande!
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Center San Jose presents The San Jose Poetry Slam Zoom Edition featuring Deonte Osayande\nCome join us for Poetry from the comfort of your own home.\nSunday August 8\nRoom opens at 6:30 pm (California time)\nSign up list will be open from 6:30 to 7pm\nSlam starts at 7\nWe are on Pacific Standard time\, that is 3 hours earlier than east coast time and 3 hours ahead of Hawaii.\nThis is a free event.\nHosted by Scorpiana Xlent\nCash prizes for 1st\, 2nd\, and 3rd place.\nRegister through Eventbrite:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/san-jose-poetry-slam-zoom…\nIf you have never been to a Poetry Slam before\, a poetry slam is a competition\, imagine spoken word poetry as an olympic sport. The rules are simple:1) Poets must use their own poems. 2) poet must use only one poem per round. 3) no musical accompianment. 4)no props. 5) there is a time limit of 3 minutes and 10 seconds. going over that will result in a time penalty.\nThis is a two round slam\, poets with the highest scores will move up to round two.\nYou can sign up to compete via the chatbox in the zoom room.\nIf you’re not competing\, we could use judges.\nOur feature will be Deonte Osayande!\nDeonte Osayande is a writer from Detroit\, Mi. His nonfiction and poetry have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology\, the Pushcart Prize and he’s had a book nominated for a Digital Book Award. He has represented Detroit at four National Poetry Slam competitions. He’s currently a professor of English at Wayne County Community College. His books include Class (Urban Farmhouse Press\, 2017)\, Circus (Brick Mantle Books\, 2018) and Civilian (Urban Farmhouse Press\, 2019). He also managed the Rustbelt Midwest Regional Poetry Slam and Festival for 2014 and 2018.\n\nTo order a copy of Deonte’s newest chapbook “Recipe For The Poet” https://www.finishinglinepress.com/…/recipe-for-the…/…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-jose-poetry-slam-zoom-slam-feat-deonte-osayande/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210809T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210809T133000
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SUMMARY:Reimagine Candlelight Vigil with Author Armistead Maupin
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 9 \n12:00pm-1:30pm PDT \n\nAt this month’s Reimagine Candlelight Vigil\, our special guest is “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin. Let’s honor our loved ones and celebrate the transformation of loss into creativity.\nReimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils throughout the pandemic in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. At this special gathering\, “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin will discuss living through two pandemics (AIDS in the 1980s and COVID-19 today)\, LGBTQ+ aging\, legacy\, and the power of writing and creativity. Our additional guest is Wilfred Labiosa\, the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nArmistead Maupin \nLaunched in 1976 as a groundbreaking serial in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Armistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. The series now encompasses nine hugely popular novels: Tales of the City\, More Tales of the City\, Further Tales of the City\, Babycakes\, Significant Others\, Sure of You\, Michael Tolliver Lives\, and Mary Ann in Autumn. The final Tales novel\, The Days of Anna Madrigal\, was released in January 2014. It premiered at #3 on the Independent Bestseller list and #7 on the New York Times Bestseller list. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nMaupin’s 1992 novel\, Maybe the Moon\, which followed the serio-comic adventures of a dwarf actress working in Hollywood\, was named one of the ten best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. The Night Listener (2000)\, a psychological suspense novel inspired by an eerie episode in Maupin’s own life\, became a 2006 feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. In 2017 he wrote a memoir titled Logical Family which grew out of his critically acclaimed one-man show of the same name. Neil Gaiman said this about Logical Family; “Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers\, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating\, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us.” \nIn 1997 Maupin received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle of New York. In 2002 he was honored with the Trevor Project’s Life Award “for his efforts in saving young lives.” Maupin was the first recipient of Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award for his literary contribution to San Francisco. In 2012 he was awarded Lambda’s Pioneer Award which is bestowed on individuals who have broken new ground in the field of LGBT literature and publishing. In 2014 he received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He also received the Visionary Award from the 2014 Outfest Legacy Awards for his collected novels and their “…diverse\, interconnected community of San Francisco bohemians — which shaped our collective fantasy of what LGBT life is and could be….” Maupin is the subject of a new documentary titled Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. He lives in London with his husband Christopher Turner\, a photographer. \nWilfred Labiosa \nWilfred Labiosa\, PhD\, (he/him/él) has been a community leader for more than thirty years. He has been working in the public health field for more than 25 years with marginalized communities such as the Latino and LGBT communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. He has published extensively his research with the dually-diagnosed Latino community\, mental health and a substance abuse diagnosis; works as a consultant and/ or supervisor on state\, national and international projects that focus on mental health\, HIV/AIDS prevention\, homeless\, youth\, Latinos\, LGBTQ+\, people with dual diagnosis or evidence-based treatment modalities. He has worked with LGBT and HIV organizations locally\, nationally and internationally for many years\, as a mentor\, mental health provider or evaluator. Born and raised in Puerto Rico; He graduated with a doctorate degree from Simmons University\, School of Social Work\, and Master’s Degree from Northeastern University’s Department of Counseling Psychology\, and a graduate certificate from Suffolk University’s management of non-profits. His Bachelor’s degree is from Boston University. He is currently the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nSAGE \nSAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City\, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older people and their caregivers. \nTYPE:\nRITUAL & CEREMONYTALK\, PANEL\, & CONVERSATIONWRITING & LITERATURECOMMUNITY GATHERINGCELEBRATION & REMEMBRANCE\nTRACK:\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENTCOVID-19 \n\nThis is a digital event. You should receive information in your ticket or from the host about how to join online. \n\nFree\nRSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagine-candlelight-vigil-with-author-armistead-maupin/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Claire Luchette and Helen Ellis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, August 9th at 6pm PT when Claire Luchette joins us to discuss her debut novel\, Agatha of Little Neon\, with Helen Ellis on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_a1ZP3ZfGTBO12osWiJnR7Q \nPraise for Agatha of Little Neon \n“Full of small devotions\, pith and vigor\, and a bounty of tender feeling for a world that is not quite as full of grace as it could be\, this bold debut shines with a light all its own.” —Alexandra Kleeman \n“Claire Luchette is so wildly talented that I would follow her anywhere . . . A novel that’s blazingly original\, wry\, and perfectly attuned to the oddness—and the profundity—of life.” —Cristina Henriquez \nAbout Agatha of Little Neon \nClaire Luchette’s debut\, Agatha of Little Neon\, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood\, figuring out how you fit in (or don’t)\, and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self. \nAgatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together\, laugh together\, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet\, purposeful life. \nBut when the parish goes broke\, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket\, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house\, where they live alongside their charges\, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school\, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women\, the church\, have been her home. Or has she just been hiding? \nDisarming\, delightfully deadpan\, and full of searching\, Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. It is a novel about sisterhood\, friendship\, and devotion\, about figuring out how we fit in (or don’t)\, and about the unexpected friends who help us find our truest selves. \nAbout Claire Luchette \nClaire Luchette has published work in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and Granta. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell\, Yaddo\, the Millay Colony for the Arts\, Lighthouse Works\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and the James Merrill House. Agatha of Little Neon is Luchette’s first novel. \nAbout Helen Ellis \nHelen Ellis is the author of Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light\,Southern Lady Code\, American Housewife and Eating the Cheshire Cat. Raised in Alabama\, she lives with her husband in New York City. You can find her on Twitter @WhatIDoAllDay and Instagram @HelenEllisAuthor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-claire-luchette-and-helen-ellis/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Poetry & Poetic Prose"
DESCRIPTION:August 9 at 7pm Pacific\, the Odd Mondays reading series brings you an hour of poetry and poetic prose on Zoom. Paul Corman-Roberts reads from his new poetry collection BONE MOON PALACE\, Penny Mickelbury from her historical novel TWO WINGS TO FLY AWAY\, and Tamsin Spencer Smith from her political thriller XISLE. Get the Zoom link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy all three books at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-poetry-poetic-prose/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T190000
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SUMMARY:Jessamyn Stanley\, Yoke
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author and staff favorite Jessamyn Stanley (Every Body Yoga) will join us online to discuss her new book\, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance\, available to order below. Stanley will be in conversation with the amazing Nicole Steward of Love Ethic Yoga. \n“Beloved body-positive yogi Jessamyn Stanley speaks on the everyday trials of self-love and spiritual upkeep in Yoke\, her follow-up to Every Body Yoga\, which gained her a huge Internet following of those who resonate with her wellness-based practice. In this collection of uplifting\, honest\, wise\, and often funny essays\, Stanley navigates the spiritual\, sexual\, and racial intersections of her yoga-filled life.” —Juj\, Bookshop bookseller \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nFinding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. \nIn Sanskrit\, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body\, movement and breath\, light and dark\, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday–a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. \nIn a series of deeply honest\, funny autobiographical essays\, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself\, all through the lens of yoke. She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. She questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses–or misuses–the tradition’s spiritual dimension. And reveals what she calls her own “whole-ass problematic” Growing up Baháí\, loving astrology\, learning to meditate\, finding prana in music. \nAnd in the end\, Jessamyn invites every reader to find the authentic spirit of yoke–linking that good and that bad\, that light and that dark. \nJessamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke and an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness\, highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. She is the founder of The Underbelly\, an inclusive wellness community and streaming app\, cohost of the podcast Dear Jessamyn\, and cofounder of We Go High\, a North Carolina based cannabis justice initiative. She is a regular contributor to SELF magazine and has been featured in the New York Times\, Vogue\, and Sports Illustrated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessamyn-stanley-yoke/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T200000
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SUMMARY:Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nAmerican Estrangement \npublished by W.W. Norton \nOne of Literary Hub‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2021 \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 coming soon! \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nSaïd Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as “a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain.” His new collection of stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, and the Best American Short Stories—is set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles—a son’s fractured relationship with his father\, the death of a mother\, the loss of a job\, drug addiction—even as they are battered by larger\, often invisible\, economic\, political\, and racial forces of American society. \nSearing\, intimate\, often slyly funny\, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy\, American Estrangement is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh’s reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers. \n\n\nSaïd Sayrafiezadeh was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. He is the author of a memoir\, When Skateboards Will Be Free\, and a story collection\, Brief Encounters with the Enemy. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Cullman Center Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, Granta\, the New York Times Magazine\, and McSweeney’s. He teaches at New York University and Hunter College and lives in New York City. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.sayrafiezadeh.com \n  \nWhat has been said about the work of Saïd Sayrafiezadeh \n\n\n\n\n\nSaïd Sayrafiezadeh is a first-rate short story writer. Every sentence is a delight\, and his work has a captivating\, immersive quality that leaves the reader shaken and moved. American Estrangement is a superb book with a strange and subtle power sure to haunt readers long after they’ve closed the cover. \nPhil Klay\, author of Missionaries \nSad\, mordant\, and utterly beguiling\, this pitch-perfect volume of stories broke my heart. American Estrangement’s characters are endlessly unsettled: stalked by unresolved pasts\, trapped in the unbridgeable gulfs of the present moment. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh works like a miniaturist\, impeccably tracing invisible negotiations between human beings—and these stories accumulate with a disquieting\, invisible power. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Adjmi\, author of Lot Six \nA haunting book\, and filled with longing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHilton Als\, author of White Girls \nThe stories in this moving and powerful collection are honest\, unaffected\, yet full of imagination. Whether set in the recent past or a speculative near future\, they explore moments where personal and societal dysfunction converge\, in prose that punches through the page. This book’s tough poetry tells us who we are and where we are headed\, with equal parts sadness\, humor\, and hope. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRajesh Parameswaran\, author of I Am an Executioner \nThese stories combine the intensity of theater\, the humor of your smartest friend\, and the emotional insight of the imaginary and gentle god you might wish for and fear as a witness. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is an extraordinary talent\, and these stories merit reading and rereading and rereading. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRivka Galchen\, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch \nSayrafiezadeh\, entertaining and political without being heavy-handed\, is a force to be reckoned with. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooklist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/said-sayrafiezadeh/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jessamyn Stanley\, Yoke
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author and staff favorite Jessamyn Stanley (Every Body Yoga) will join us online to discuss her new book\, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nFinding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. \nIn Sanskrit\, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body\, movement and breath\, light and dark\, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday–a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. \nIn a series of deeply honest\, funny autobiographical essays\, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself\, all through the lens of yoke. She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. She questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses–or misuses–the tradition’s spiritual dimension. And reveals what she calls her own “whole-ass problematic” Growing up Baháí\, loving astrology\, learning to meditate\, finding prana in music. \nAnd in the end\, Jessamyn invites every reader to find the authentic spirit of yoke–linking that good and that bad\, that light and that dark. \nJessamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke and an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness\, highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. She is the founder of The Underbelly\, an inclusive wellness community and streaming app\, cohost of the podcast Dear Jessamyn\, and cofounder of We Go High\, a North Carolina based cannabis justice initiative. She is a regular contributor to SELF magazine and has been featured in the New York Times\, Vogue\, and Sports Illustrated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jessamyn-stanley-yoke/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T200000
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin with Tommy Orange / Leave Society
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Tao Lin again for his new novel\, Leave Society. He’ll be in conversation with Tommy Orange. Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Leave Society here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nIn 2014\, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn’t know it yet\, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds–year by year\, over four years–he will flit in and out of optimism\, despair\, loneliness\, sanity\, bouts of chronic pain\, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments\, uncover secrets about nature and history\, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? \nExploring everyday events and scenes–waiting rooms\, dog walks\, family meals–while investigatively venturing to the edges of society\, where culture dissolves into mystery\, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt\, as it builds toward a stunning\, if unexpected\, romance\, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. \nAbout the authors\nTao Lin is the author of the memoir Trip\, the novels Taipei and Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He was born in Virginia\, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program\, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tao-lin-with-tommy-orange-leave-society/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Katherine E. Standefer\, Kate Washington & Naomi Williams
DESCRIPTION:Katherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books on healthcare with Naomi Williams\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, August 10\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\nCA\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books\, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little\, Brown Spark) and Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America (Beacon Press) with Naomi Williams. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Already Toast\nThe story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. \nAlready Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be\, how difficult it is to find support\, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband\, Brad\, learned that he had cancer\, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers\, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. \nBrad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive\, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection\, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive\, coordinating his treatments\, making doctors’ appointments\, calling insurance companies\, filling dozens of prescriptions\, cleaning commodes\, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that\, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care\, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” \nThrough it all\, she felt profoundly alone\, but\, as she later learned\, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America\, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work\, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. \nAs the baby-boom generation ages\, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable\, relatable\, timely\, and often raw\, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation\, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked\, vital work of caring for the seriously ill. \nAbout Lightning Flowers\nLightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible — “utterly spectacular.” (Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises) \nWhat if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That’s the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. \nIn this gripping\, intimate memoir about health\, illness\, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system\, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units\, dramatic surgeries\, and slow\, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart\, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. \nFrom the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle\, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is\, in fact\, much more complicated. \nDeeply personal and sharply reported\, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos\, healthcare\, and our cultural relationship to medical technology\, raising important questions about our obligations to one another\, and the cost of saving one life. \nAbout the Authors\nKate Washington is the author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout In America and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, TIME\, Eater\, Catapult\, and many other publications. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Stanford University and lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters. \nKatherine E. Standefer’s debut book Lightning Flowers was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Her writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. In 2018\, Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Arizona and teaches for Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA. She writes from a juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico\, where she lives with her chickens. \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications\, including A Public Space\, LitHub\, One Story\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention\, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant\, and residencies at Hedgebrook\, Djerassi\, and Willapa Bay AiR. Born and partly raised in Japan\, Naomi currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, and teaches with the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. Find her on Twitter at @naomiwilliams or at her website at naomijwilliams.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-e-standefer-kate-washington-naomi-williams-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Lent & Joanna Manqueros: The Web of Meaning
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents\nJeremy Lent & Joanna Manqueros \nThe Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe \nRethinking values based on science and traditional wisdom Indigenous\, Buddhist\, and Taoist traditions have held for millennia that all life is interconnected. Modern science has now validated their insight. What does this mean for how we should live?  This groundbreaking new book weaves together the latest scientific findings and age-old philosophical insights to show how some of our most ingrained beliefs about human nature and the world are mistaken-and offers a powerful alternative to help us heal a planet in peril. \nTHE WEB OF MEANING isn’t just a challenge to outmoded beliefs. It is an invitation to a new worldview that integrates insights from some of the world’s great wisdom traditions with modern science to offer a new way of thinking about ourselves and the world that is both intellectually sound and spiritually vibrant. In this far-reaching and boundary-defying book\, Lent\, described by Guardian columnist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age\,” weaves together the latest research in neuroscience and evolutionary biology with Buddhist\, Taoist\, and Indigenous wisdom\, and shows how these seemingly disparate streams of thought are eminently compatible. He argues that\, taken together\, they are key to facing the existential problems of the 21st century and can lead to a flourishing future for all. \nJeremy Lent wrote The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning. \nJoanna Manqueros hosts every Tuesday on KPFA at 11 AM\,  a celebration of the global music which heals and revives us. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/jeremy-lent-joanna-manqueros-the-web-of-meaning-tickets-159477650947
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeremy-lent-joanna-manqueros-the-web-of-meaning/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Katherine E. Standefer\, Kate Washington & Naomi Williams
DESCRIPTION:Katherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books\, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little\, Brown Spark) and Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America (Beacon Press) with Naomi Williams. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Already Toast\nThe story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. \nAlready Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be\, how difficult it is to find support\, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband\, Brad\, learned that he had cancer\, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers\, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. \nBrad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive\, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection\, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive\, coordinating his treatments\, making doctors’ appointments\, calling insurance companies\, filling dozens of prescriptions\, cleaning commodes\, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that\, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care\, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” \nThrough it all\, she felt profoundly alone\, but\, as she later learned\, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America\, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work\, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. \nAs the baby-boom generation ages\, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable\, relatable\, timely\, and often raw\, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation\, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked\, vital work of caring for the seriously ill. \nAbout Lightning Flowers\nLightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible — “utterly spectacular.” (Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises) \nWhat if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That’s the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. \nIn this gripping\, intimate memoir about health\, illness\, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system\, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units\, dramatic surgeries\, and slow\, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart\, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. \nFrom the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle\, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is\, in fact\, much more complicated. \nDeeply personal and sharply reported\, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos\, healthcare\, and our cultural relationship to medical technology\, raising important questions about our obligations to one another\, and the cost of saving one life. \nAbout the Authors\nKate Washington is the author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout In America and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, TIME\, Eater\, Catapult\, and many other publications. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Stanford University and lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters. \nKatherine E. Standefer’s debut book Lightning Flowers was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Her writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. In 2018\, Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Arizona and teaches for Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA. She writes from a juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico\, where she lives with her chickens. \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications\, including A Public Space\, LitHub\, One Story\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention\, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant\, and residencies at Hedgebrook\, Djerassi\, and Willapa Bay AiR. Born and partly raised in Japan\, Naomi currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, and teaches with the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. Find her on Twitter at @naomiwilliams or at her website at naomijwilliams.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-e-standefer-kate-washington-naomi-williams/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alta Live: The Future of Quarantine
DESCRIPTION:Many years before “quarantine” entered quotidian language during the COVID-19 pandemic\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley were at work on a book about it\, researching centuries of medical isolation. Released in July 2021\, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine covers the black death\, Ebola\, and coronaviruses as well as agricultural diseases\, nuclear contamination\, and technology that could alter the practice of isolation. The authors join Alta Journal books editor David L. Ulin for a conversation on their eerily predictive research and what quarantine might look like in our future. \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nGeoff Manaugh is the author of A Burglar’s Guide to the City and the creator of the architecture and technology website BLDGBLOG. He regularly writes for the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, the New Yorker\, Wired\, and many other publications. \nNicola Twilley is the cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod\, which looks at food through the lenses of science and history\, and is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. \nManaugh and Twilley live in Los Angeles. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nQuarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see whether something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous\, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine\, we are considered infectious until proven safe. \nUntil Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe\, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from crumbling Mediterranean lazzarettos built to contain the black death to an experimental Ebola unit in London\, from the hallways of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for pandemics yet to come. \nBut the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. The authors tour a nuclear waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert\, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply\, and meet NASA’s planetary protection officer\, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. \nWith Until Proven Safe\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive\, an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces—biological\, political\, technological—that shape our modern world. It is a thrillingly reported\, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom\, governance\, and mutual responsibility.• \n\n\n\n\n\nUntil Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley\nMCDbookshop.org \n$25.76\n\n\nBUY THE BOOK
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-live-the-future-of-quarantine/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Da'Shaun L. Harrison and Kiese Laymon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 11th at 6pm PT when Da’Shaun L. Harrison discusses their book\, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness\, with Kiese Laymon on Zoom! \nASL Interpretation Provided \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_IcplvrusQYe6T-3p_3sq9Q \nPraise for Belly of the Beast \n“Belly of the Beast is written with poise and lucidity. It pushes us to think past the pablum of telling fat folx all they gotta do is love themselves to enacting a movement that addresses the source and ramifications of societal anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Harrison forces us not to look away\, reminding us that all too often ‘health’ and ‘desire’ are used to annul Blackness. In a ‘post bo-po’ world\, desire and the sheer right to life can be rooted in something other than all the things named non-Black.” —Sabrina Strings\, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia \n“Da’Shaun Harrison is an insightful visionary\, world-builder\, and ingenious writer who brings us into deeper understandings and frameworks of the intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-fatness. Belly of the Beast brings us closer to ourselves because it brings us closer to the truth—that anti-Blackness is the foundation to how violence shapes our relationships to our bodies and each other. Harrison not only intervenes in the terror of white supremacist paradigms but develops the tools to imagine and build a new world. Belly of the Beast eats\, and it leaves no crumbs.”—Hunter Shackelford\, author of You Might Die for This \n“I am continually blown away by Da’Shaun’s ability as a writer to wrestle so deeply and expertly with questions many of us would never even think to ask—whether they be about our world\, our politics\, our selves\, or our bodies. Every page challenges us to expand our imagination and reconstruct the ways we think\, talk\, and theorize about fatness\, Blackness\, gender\, health\, desire\, abolition\, and more. Belly of the Beast is a gift and a groundbreaker.” —Sherronda J. Brown\, editor-in-chief of Wear Your Voice magazine \nAbout Belly of the Beast \nExploring the intersections of Blackness\, gender\, fatness\, health\, and the violence of policing. \nTo live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society\, passed over for housing and jobs\, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals\, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination\, abuse\, condescension\, and trauma. \nIn Belly of the Beast\, Da’Shaun Harrison—a fat\, Black\, disabled\, and nonbinary trans writer—offers an incisive\, fresh\, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. They foreground the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. Policing\, disenfranchisement\, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people are pervasive\, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in 49 states for being fat; they’re more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or nontreatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness\, Blackness\, disability\, and gender\, these abuses are exacerbated. \nTaking on desirability politics\, the limitations of gender\, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality\, and the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat\, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial\, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “fat is bad\,” and destroying the world as we know it\, so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. \nAbout Da’Shaun L. Harrison \nDa’Shaun L. Harrison is a nonbinary abolitionist and community organizer based out of Atlanta\, GA. They once served as the Communications Director of #ATLisReady and Editor-in-Chief of Queer Black Millennial. Harrison now holds the honor of being the Associate Editor of Wear Your Voice Magazine and Lead Organizer of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaPCo). Harrison has traveled throughout the United States and abroad to lecture at conferences and colleges and to lead workshops focused on race\, sexuality\, gender\, class\, religion\, (dis)abilities\, fatness\, and the intersection at which they all meet. You can find them on Twitter and Instagram @DaShaunLH\, or through their website\, dashaunharrison.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dashaun-l-harrison-and-kiese-laymon/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Gucciardi with Eduardo C. Corral
DESCRIPTION:Launch Party for Benjamin Gucciardi’s new poetry collection \nWest Portal \npublished by University of Utah Press \nWinner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize \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. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link coming soon! \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———–\nWest Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco\, California\, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles—the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams’s assertion that “the local is the only thing that is universal\,” West Portal investigates the Bay Area’s urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative of the death of the poet’s sister with the environmental and socioeconomic realities of the current moment\, the poems in West Portal illuminate the experience of loss\, and the attempt to create meaning in the wake of devastation. Through poems that are prayerful\, observant\, elegiac\, pained\, dreamlike\, philosophical\, and compassionate\, the book asks: What do we consider holy? What is virtue? What should any of us value about our relationship to place or our relationship with each other? \nBenjamin Gucciardi is the author of the chapbook I Ask My Sister’s Ghost (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press). His poems have appeared in AGNI\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Best New Poets\, Harvard Review\, New Ohio Review\, Orion Magazine\, Southern Indiana Review\, and other journals. He has received BOOTH’s Prize for Unexpected Literature\, the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize from Harpur Palate\, the Trifecta Poetry Prize from Iron Horse Literary Review and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize\, as well as awards and fellowships from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference\, Jentel Foundation\, PLAYA\, and Artsmith. He also works with refugee and immigrant youth in Oakland\, California\, through Soccer Without Borders\, an organization he founded in 2006. \n\n\nEduardo C. Corral’s debut collection of poetry\, Slow Lightning (2012)\, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize\, making him the first Latino recipient of the award. His second collection is Guillotine (2020). Praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish\, tender treatment of history\, and careful exploration of sexuality\, Corral has received numerous honors and awards\, including the Discovery/The Nation Award\, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. \nPraise and Reviews for WEST PORTAL: \n“The beautiful and the terrible live alongside each other in this work. And so often\, they’re actually the same thing. Or they are happening all at once. There is such deep searching in this book and such formal precision. And the language is luminous\, which makes the harrowing physical and psychic landscape even more profound. At the center of this world is the ghost of the poet’s sister who proves that ghosts are always the best teachers. They see us.”\n—Gabrielle Calvocoressi\, author of Rocket Fantastic \n“In West Portal\, ravishing beauty and ravenous grief braid into utterly lucid and breathtaking poems. The language—deftly scored on the page\, rippling with tenderness—radiates with the hushed warmth of an intimate conversation. Ben Gucciardi’s first book has the lyrical depth of a second or third book. It’s an astonishing debut.”—Eduardo Corral \n“Ben Gucciardi’s West Portal reverberates with compassionate intensity. Navigating the tragedy of his sister’s death\, its aftermath\, and what the living can learn from the dead\, these poems spark with tender attention to detail: he reaches into his sister’s ashes expecting their consistency to be like masa and instead feels bone. He brings a thermos of soup to one of his students who has been kicked out of the house by his uncle\, and they walk\, exchanging stories\, by the San Francisco Bay. West Portal asks us\, in this great plastic patch of life\, how does the poet ‘un-drown’ himself? One way is to dive right into the great scope of being in all of its dazzling\, bewildering power.”—Sandra Simonds \n“West Portal takes place ‘in the pause between death and tendril\,’ where the ‘word for beauty sounds just like the word for camel\, and the phrase I borrowed sometimes means I burned.’ In this in-between world\, Benjamin Gucciardi shows us a landscape stricken by loss\, but also painted with hints of joy some may call reincarnation or a goldfinch’s song. It’s this attention to emotion and image that makes this debut poignant and specifically brilliant like ‘the red blaze of ice-plants.'”—Javier Zamora \n“I revere books of poems that accomplish three things: praying\, singing\, and storytelling. The poems in West Portal achieve all three. The poetic modes are mixed and at times hybridized. Deep intelligence and deep feeling seem to hold each other in a death-gripped balance. There’s something narrative at stake here\, too. We’re taking an emotional journey that carries us from one place to another. Maybe that isn’t exactly narrative\, but it borrows from narrative structure\, and has something to do with a character evolving or changing over the course of a book. I love this about West Portal\, a massively ambitious book.”\n—David Roderick\, author of The Americans and Blue Colonial \n“West Portal is a stunning collection of death-haunted poems that not only interrogate the nature of existence but in formally various ways celebrate our brief time on earth. Ben Gucciardi shows how small details\, observed or remembered and rendered in lines that sing and soar\, make life worth living. Here is a primer on the movements of the soul\, which will surprise\, delight\, and offer solace.”\n—Christopher Merrill\, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benjamin-gucciardi-with-eduardo-c-corral/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:FUNDRAISER: Nomadic Press & BAMBDFEST 2021 Present: BlackLit: A Series of Poetic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:As part of BAMBDFEST 2021\, BlackLit brings together 10 Nomadic Press writers and 2 musicians who have been paired up in poetic conversations weeks prior to the event. This is a fundraiser for the Nomadic Press Black Writers Fund (we have a short goal of raising $2\,000 by the end of the evening).\nEmceed by the one-and-only Dior J. Stephens!\nPoet pairs:\nAyodele Nzinga + Juba Kalamka\nAsantewaa Boykin + Dee Allen\nLauren Wheeler + Odelia Younge\nKeith Donnell Jr. + Daniel B. Summerhill\nDazié Grego-Sykes + Nazelah Jamison\nMusic pair:\nBlackberri + TBA\nAbout the Nomadic Press Black Writers Fund (NPBWF):\nAt Nomadic Press we are proud of our recent work to support Black writers through our initiative\, the Nomadic Press Black Writers Fund (NPBWF)\, and we’d like to thank those who have contributed to the fund. Our mission is to level the playing field for Black writers.\nOur campaign and fundraiser last December enabled us to provide $3\,500 to our roster of 24 Black writers\, which allowed us to provide $143 to each writer. We’d like to continue this work. In 2021\, our goal is to raise $8\,000 to support 32 Black writers with $250 each. We hope that you consider donating to the fund. No donation is too small (or too big).\n$8\,000.00 would allow us to guarantee 32 writers $250.00 each. A donation of $250 supports one author; $750 supports three.\nBelow are four ways to give to NPBWF:\n1) Make a one-time donation: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/blackwritersfundonetime\n2) Make a monthly recurring donation: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/blackwritersfundrecurring\n3) Donate via a “ticket” through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/fundraiser-nomadic-press…\n4) Donate via the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: FUNDRAISER: Nomadic Press & BAMBDFEST 2021 Present: BlackLit: A Series of Poetic Conversations\nTime: Aug 11\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89931132235…\nMeeting ID: 899 3113 2235\nPasscode: 033189\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,89931132235#\,\,\,\,*033189# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,89931132235#\,\,\,\,*033189# 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 DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 899 3113 2235\nPasscode: 033189\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kxgdKdrIL
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fundraiser-nomadic-press-bambdfest-2021-present-blacklit-a-series-of-poetic-conversations/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110922
CREATED:20210731T184509Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Nawaaz Ahmed and Nina McConigley
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 12th at 6pm PT when Nawaaz Ahmed discusses his debut\, Radiant Fugitives\, with Nina McConigley on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_bvWs1Xb1R5KoaIVf1tstCg \nPraise for Radiant Fugitives \n“Radiant Fugitives indeed glows. This is such a beautiful novel\, full of light and luminous sentences. Reading it felt like basking in a generous and lucid intelligence. Ahmed writes his characters and their worlds with honesty and compassion. This is a writer to watch\, a voice we need.” —Matthew Salesses\, author of Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear \n“I’ve never read a novel like Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives\, and\, I kid you not\, I’ve been waiting for this tremendous\, complex\, moving novel for years\, but never expected to receive it…There is so much of life in this book.” —Anita Felicelli\, Electric Literature \n“Lyrical and deeply moving\, Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives is about the search for love\, acceptance\, and family\, both chosen and received. The novel is big-hearted and clear-eyed\, a stellar debut.” —Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \nAbout Radiant Fugitives \nA dazzling\, operatic debut novel following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change. \nWorking as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco\, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West\, despite still struggling with her father’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now\, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son\, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother\, Nafeesa\, traveling alone to California from Chennai\, and her devoutly religious sister\, Tahera\, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. \nBut instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child\, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal\, misunderstanding\, and complicated layers of love—a tapestry of emotions as riveting and disparate as the era itself. \nTold from the point of view of Seema’s child at the moment of his birth\, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran\, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance\, forgiveness\, and enduring love. \nAbout Nawaaz Ahmed \nNawaaz Ahmed was born in Tamil Nadu\, India. Before turning to writing\, he was a computer scientist\, researching search algorithms for Yahoo. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and is the winner of several Hopwood Awards. He is the recipient of residencies at MacDowell\, Yaddo\, Djerassi\, and VCCA. He’s also a Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-nawaaz-ahmed-and-nina-mcconigley/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T190000
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Vesuvio Cafe present \nA celebration of the paperback edition of \nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \nModerated by Alexis Madrigal with Alia Volz\, Doug Volz\, Meridy Volz\n(This is a live event to take place in Kerouac Alley. Seating on a first-come\, first-serve basis) \n\n\nSure\, it’s unusual to throw a book launch 18 months after publication\, but that’s the way the brownie crumbles during a pandemic…\nCo-presented safely outdoors by City Lights Books and Vesuvio Café\, this will be the first opportunity to celebrate the bestselling memoir\, Home Baked\, in person. Alexis Madrigal from NPR’s Forum will interview Alia alongside her parents Doug and Meridy Volz (co-owners of Sticky Fingers Brownies and stars of the book). We’ll have a short reading and book signing\, plus more surprises and special guests TBD.\nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award\, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. It was the inaugural pick for the citywide Total SF Book Club\, and an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique story has been featured of Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air.\nJoin us in Jack Kerouac Alley to meet the people behind the wild stories.\n********\nAbout Home Baked:\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco.\nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life.\nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS.\nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED’s Forum and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her bestselling memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award. It was chosen as the inaugural pick for the San Francisco Chronicle’s citywide Total SF Book Club and was an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique San Francisco story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, Forum\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \n\nDoug Volz is a professional Visionary Realist oil painter\, living in Lake County\, California. At 67\, as a retired nurse\, he devotes his time to producing works of art that inspire and elevate\, assisting the viewer to leave behind the dark encumbrances of the physical\, and to focus instead on a personal spirituality\, and a Light which frees the Spirit and heals the Heart and Mind. \n\nMeridy Volz is a working fine artist and art activist. She resides in Desert Hot Springs\, CA\, where she runs her art program\, Art with Heart\, mentoring incarcerated and at-risk teens. Her award-winning artwork is figurative\, colorful\, and Expressionistic.\n\n\n\nReviews:\nWinner of the California Bookseller Association’s Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction\nFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\nOne of Entertainment Weekly’s “Books to Read in April”\nOne of Lambda Literary’s “Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of April 2020”\n\n“The subtitle\, ‘My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco’ tells you much of what you need to know in terms of content. But as a portrait of a heroics\, innovation\, grit\, and pot-baking in an epidemic (in this case\, the AIDS crisis)\, it’s also strikingly relevant. And beautifully written\, too.”\n—Entertainment Weekly\, “Books to Read in April”\n\n“A beautiful evocation of the Bay Area in the years before tech bros and big money changed the city…Like Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday\, this is a narrative about a time that is now gone: San Francisco as circus\, where pot was both ubiquitous and as illegal as heroin. Under Volz’s careful attention\, all of it—the era\, the place\, and her own parents—is rendered clear\, bright\, and beautiful.”\n—Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n“An earnest yet comic memoir by the daughter of the owner of the Sticky Fingers bakery\, purveyor of pot brownies and crusader for legalization.”\n—New York Times\, “New and Noteworthy Audiobooks”\n\n“A raunchy and rollicking account of a vanished era told by someone who paid very close attention to her larger-than-life parents. I gobbled it up like an edible.”\n—Armistead Maupin\n\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.”\n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\n“[A] nostalgic\, thoroughly entertaining new romp of a memoir…[An] intensely personal portrait of an unconventional childhood\, as well as a rigorously reported account of a kaleidoscopic time in San Francisco history\, an era of exuberant highs and pitch-black lows.”\n—San Francisco Chronicle\n\n“While a memoir\, Home Baked is also an intensively researched book on San Francisco and the burgeoning cannabis culture surrounding Sticky Fingers Brownies\, based on archival research and hundreds of hours of interviews with LGBT activists\, cannabis advocates and\, of course\, Volz’s parents. Home Baked also provides a timely contrast with both modern San Francisco and the blossoming cannabis industry\, which can now offer safe and legal access to the drug\, although significant reforms to the war on drugs have not materialized.”\n—Newsweek\n\n“Ample\, skillfully researched\, and cleanly narrated\, Volz’s debut is really five books in one . . . Alia in tow\, Mer and her peers travel among San Francisco\, Humboldt County and Marin\, connecting an essentially agricultural project to an urban counterculture; they also weave together less and more responsible ways to raise a kid\, almost as Volz herself weaves together her archives of the post-hippie-era Bay Area with her own vivid memories.”\n—Literary Hub
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz/
LOCATION:Kerouac Alley\, 255 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94133\, San Francisco\, California\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta
DESCRIPTION:Every 2nd Thursday of the month at Alley Cat Books in the heart of the Mission!Hosted and curated by Marguerite Munoz and René Vaz.Each reading we bring you three writers\, an open mic\, witty and thought provoking banter and a space that is accepting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-3/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T200000
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SUMMARY:We Are the Brennans — a discussion with Tracey Lange
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, August 12\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of WE ARE THE BRENNANS with author Tracey Lange in a GGP Online Chat. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83468349847\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpBrennans\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/BrennansAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\nI ABSOLUTELY love this book! WE ARE THE BRENNANS is the debut novel by Tracey Lange and centers around the Brennan family and the secrets that threaten to destroy their wonderfully dysfunctional Irish Catholic family.— Kathleen \nDescription\n\nIn the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again\, Yes and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest\, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets. \nWhen twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital\, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused\, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it’s not easy. She deserted them all—and her high school sweetheart—five years before with little explanation\, and they’ve got questions. \nSunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast\, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she stays\, however\, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family’s pub business to the brink of financial ruin\, the only way to protect them is to upend all their secrets—secrets that have damaged the family for generations and will threaten everything they know about their lives. In the aftermath\, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakes—and ultimately find a way forward\, together.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-are-the-brennans-a-discussion-with-tracey-lange/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Sherrell and Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Discusses his new book Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World. Co-sponsored by the Mesa Refuge.\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, August 12\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\nCA 94956\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Sherrell discusses his new book Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World (Penguin) with Bill McKibben. Co-sponsored by the Mesa Refuge. \n“Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest\, this book helped me do the impossible: live in the space between grief and hope.” —Jenny Odell\, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Warmth \nWarmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it\, but how it feels to imagine a future–and a family–under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement\, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time\, to hope\, and to each other. At once a memoir\, a love letter\, and an electric work of criticism\, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not? \nAbout the Participants \nDaniel Sherrell is an organizer born in 1990. He helped lead the campaign to pass landmark climate justice legislation in New York and is the recipient of a Fulbright grant in creative nonfiction. Warmth is his first book. \nBill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change\, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write many more books\, and his work appears regularly in periodicals from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone. He serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College\, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and he has won the Gandhi Peace Prize as well as honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award\, sometimes called the alternative Nobel\, in the Swedish Parliament. Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers. \nMcKibben helped found 350.org\, the first global grassroots climate campaign\, and has organized on every continent\, including Antarctica\, for climate action. He played a leading role in launching the opposition to big oil pipeline projects\, and the fossil fuel divestment campaign\, which has become the biggest anti-corporate campaign in history\, with endowments worth more than $15 trillion stepping back from oil\, gas and coal. He stepped down as board chair of 350 in 2015\, and left the board and stepped down from his volunteer role as senior adviser in 2020\, accepting emeritus status. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife\, the writer Sue Halpern\, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014\, biologists credited his career by naming a new species of woodland gnat—Megophthalmidia mckibbeni–in his honor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-sherrell-and-bill-mckibben/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad\, What Strange Paradise
DESCRIPTION:Writer and journalist Omar El Akkad\, author of the acclaimed book American War\, will be in conversation with Lauren Markham about his new book What Strange Paradise\, a beautifully written and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refuge crisis down to the level of a child’s eyes.  “It is one thing to put a human face on a migrant crisis and another to do so in so compelling a way that a reader simply cannot put your book down.” —Gish Jen\, author of The Resisters \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nMore bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled\, ill-equipped\, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians\, Ethiopians\, Egyptians\, Lebanese\, Palestinians\, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir\, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vänna: a teenage girl\, native to the island\, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers\, though they don’t speak a common language\, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. \nIn alternating chapters\, we learn the story of the boy’s life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world\, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference\, of hope and despair—and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality\, or guide us to a better one. \n\nOMAR EL AKKAD is an author and a journalist. He has reported from Afghanistan\, Guantánamo Bay\, and many other locations around the world. His work earned Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Le Monde\, Guernica\, GQ\, and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel\, American War\, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award\, the Oregon Book Award for fiction\, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\, and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, NPR\, and Esquire\, and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. \nLAUREN MARKHAM is a writer based in California whose work has appeared in outlets such as Guernica\, Harper’s\, Lithub\, Best American Travel Writing\, The New Republic\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Magazine\, and VQR\, where she is a contributing editor. Lauren is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life\, which was awarded the Northern California Book Award\, The California Book Award Silver Medal\, and the Ridenhour Prize. In addition to writing\, she works at a high school for newcomer youth in Oakland\, California that she helped found in 2007.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omar-el-akkad-what-strange-paradise/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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