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SUMMARY:Jack & Agyu: Children's Story Time with Justine Villanueva
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children’s story time featuring a live read-aloud of Filipino children’s book\, Jack and Agyu\, with author Justine Villanueva. \n​Jack & Agyu is written in English and includes a translation in Binukid\, one of the indigenous languages in Bukidnon\, a region in the south of the Philippines. The book also provides translations into Filipino\, the national language of the Philippines\, and Bisaya-Cebuano\, one of the major languages in the Philippines. Additionally\, the book features the Baybayin script\, a Tagalog based ancient script. \nAbout the book:\nJack & Agyu tells the story of an imaginative and adventurous young boy\, Jack\, who longs to find himself in the books that he reads. Crushed when he realizes he is different looking from all his favorite book characters\, he goes off to right what he feels is wrong. His path leads him to trouble but\, also\, to healing and empowerment as he reconnects with the stories of his ancestors from the Philippines. \nVibrantly illustrated by Lynnor Bontigao with characters based on Filipino mythology- the sirena (mermaid)\, syokoy (mermen)\, and diwata (fairies)\, to name a few- Jack & Agyu is sure to draw kids into an adventure that is exciting as much as it is self-affirming! \nJack and Agyu is the winner of the 2020 Gold Benjamin Franklin Award in the Children’s Picture Book (4-7 years) Category. \nAbout the Author:\nJustine Villanueva traces her ancestral roots to the Bukidnon tribe of Kalasungay\, Bukidnon. She is the third child of Julieta Li and Ernesto Villanueva\, a fifth child of Filemon Villanueva and Felipa Okit\, a descendant of Apu Mansaliwa. Justine’s creative work focuses on decolonization\, social justice\, and learning to reconnect with the living Earth. She lives in Davis\, California with her husband and two young boys. www.justinevillanueva.com \nAbout the Illustrator:\nLynnor Bontigao graduated from the University of the Philippines with a fine arts degree in visual communications. Her love of children’s books began when she joined Ilustrador ng Kabataan (InK\, a Philippines-based group of children’s books illustrators). In New York\, she worked as a programmer for 15 years but she never forgot her love of drawing. She now pursues her dream of making picture books that both kids and kids at heart will enjoy. Lynnor lives in New Jersey with her husband\, two kids\, and one tiny dog. www.lynnorbontigao.com \nAutographed copies of Jack & Agyu\, along with Villanueva’s first trilingual children’s book Mama\, Mama\, Do You Know What I Like?\, are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704.
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SUMMARY:Meera Sriram VIRTUAL LAUNCH
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the publication of her picture book A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India.  \nTo register\, go to: \nhttps://www.crowdcast.io/e/book-launch-a-gift-for-amma/ \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, August 23\, 2020 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nA young girl explores the vibrant rainbow of items for sale in a southern Indian street market as she searches for a gift for her mother. Includes facts about the items mentioned and markets around the world\, as well as photographs taken by the author in her hometown of Chennai\, India. \nThis #OwnVoices book includes facts about the items mentioned and markets around the world\, as well as photographs taken by the author in her hometown. Endnotes explain all the items on sale and introduce readers to markets around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meera-sriram-virtual-launch/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200823T120000
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SUMMARY:The Tree and the Vine: The Queer Fiction of Dola de Jong
DESCRIPTION:City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in conjunction with Transit Books present \nEditor Kristen Gehrman in conversation with Jennifer Croft \n   \ncelebrating the new book \nThe Tree and the Vine \nby Dola de Jong \nTranslated from the Dutch by Kristen Gehrman \npublished by Transite Books \n(Purchase Book Here) in the near future \nWhen Bea meets Erica at the home of a mutual friend\, this chance encounter sets the stage for the story of two women torn between desire and taboo in the years leading up to the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. Erica\, a reckless young journalist\, pursues passionate but abusive affairs with different women. Bea\, a reserved secretary\, grows increasingly obsessed with Erica\, yet denial and shame keep her from recognizing her attraction. Only Bea’s discovery that Erica is half-Jewish and a member of the Dutch resistance—and thus in danger—brings her closer to accepting her own feelings. \nFirst published in 1954 in the Netherlands\, Dola de Jong’s The Tree and the Vine was a groundbreaking work in its time for its frank and sensitive depiction of the love between two women\, now available in a new translation. \n———– \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nDola de Jong (1911–2003) was born Dorothea Rosalie de Jong in Arnhem\, The Netherlands. She worked as a dancer and a reporter before she fled the country in 1940. Settling first with her husband in Tangiers\, she immigrated to the United States. She was the author of sixteen books for adults and children\, including The Tree and the Vine and The Field\, which won the City of Amsterdam Literature Prize in 1947. \nKristen Gehrman lives in The Hague\, The Netherlands. Originally from Charleston\, South Carolina\, she studied linguistics and literary translation at the University of Lausanne\, Switzerland. In addition to her work as a literary translator\, she teaches translation\, editing\, and writing at Leiden University and VU Amsterdam. \nJennifer Croft is an American author\, critic and translator who works from Polish\, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. With the author Olga Tokarczuk\, she was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Flights.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-tree-and-the-vine-the-queer-fiction-of-dola-de-jong/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues\, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This fourth event in the series features Erin Hatton discussing her book Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\n\nWhat do prisoner laborers\, graduate students\, welfare workers\, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton\, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. \nCoerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers\, for whom a different definition of “employment” reigns supreme—one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power\, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy\, Hatton argues that coercion—as well as precarity—is a defining feature of work in America today. \nTheoretically forceful yet vivid and gripping to read\, Coerced compels the reader to reevaluate contemporary dynamics of work\, pushing beyond concepts like “career” and “gig work.” Through this bold analysis\, Hatton offers a trenchant window into this world of work from the perspective of those who toil within it—and who are developing the tools needed to push back against it. \n\n\n \nErin Hatton is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo. \n\n\n\n\nUC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith \n\n\n\n\n\n8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century\n8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies\n8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration\n8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment\n8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\n9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have Coerced sent to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-erin-hatton-coerced-work-under-threat-of-punishment/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200824T180000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Richard Kadrey / Ballistic Kiss
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Upstream author Richard Kadrey to celebrate his new novel Ballistic Kiss\, the latest and penultimate volume in his Sandman Slim series. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  We are pleased to be able to offer signed copies of Ballistic Kiss! You can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration – just be sure to request a signed copy when checking out. \n\nSandman Slim is back in Los Angeles and kicking more supernatural ass in this inventive\, high-octane page-turner—the next to last volume in the popular and acclaimed fantasy adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. \nAs the battle between warring angels continues\, James Stark is focused on seemingly simpler matters now that he’s resurfaced on earth: an invasion of ghosts. L.A.’s Little Cairo neighborhood has suddenly been overrun by violent spirits\, and Thomas Abbott knows if anyone can figure out why they’ve appeared—and how to get rid of them—it’s Stark. \nArmed with the Room of Thirteen Doors\, Stark quickly learns that the answer may reach back to the 1970s and the unsolved murder of small-time actor\, Chris Stein. As he begins to dig into the cold case\, another area of Stark’s life takes an unexpected turn when he becomes entangled with Janet\, a woman he saved during the High Plains Drifter zombie attack. \nJanet’s brush with the living dead hasn’t quenched her thirst for danger. She’s an adrenaline junkie and a member of The Zero Lodge—a club that promises “there’s zero chance you’ll get out alive.” The Lodge attracts thrill seekers who flock to perilous events such as night walks through the LA Zoo—with its deadliest animals uncaged. Joining the lodge to be with Janet\, Stark makes a pair of crucial discoveries that could decide the fate of LA and Heaven itself. \nTo prevent the Little Cairo haunting from consuming the city\, Stark must piece together the connections between the Lodge and a missing angel last seen in a Hollywood porn palace. But while he may dispatch the ghosts\, Stark knows that without his help\, the bloody war in Heaven could rage forever. \n\n \nRichard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime\,” and is in development as a feature film. Some of his other books include The Wrong Dead Guy\, The Everything Box\, Metrophage\, and Butcher Bird. He also writes the Vertigo comic Lucifer. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-richard-kadrey-ballistic-kiss/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200825T180000
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SUMMARY:George Dyson (Online)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nThe hacker historian and author behind 2012’s Turing’s Cathedral returns to Kepler’s for the release of Analogia\, a boldly philosophical book which explores the arc of technology from the stone ages to the predicted point of singularity. How has technology shaped humanity through time\, and what lays in store when we develop technologies beyond our programmable control? \nDyson offers a rich historical glance that sweeps centuries\, peppered with autobiographical elements including Freeman Dyson’s work on TRIGA (the safe nuclear reactor used around the word to create medical isotopes)\, and his own 1972 stint squatting on land in British Columbia in a tree house of his own design to get some distance from that very legacy. Dyson even delves into his noted love of kayak design. The resulting book is a treasure of philosophy\, science\, history\, biography\, and the ways we as human beings shift with emerging scientific breakthroughs. He pays especial attention to the development of complex networks and artificial intelligence. \nAfter a sweeping four-part review of technology to date\, Dyson projects into the future to suggest that perhaps machines and nature could join forces against… us. Don’t miss the author in person as he shares his expertise\, exquisite logic and peerless prose. RSVP now to reserve your space in the webinar\, and our emerging technological future. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.** \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Refresh The Page
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-dyson-online/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200825T180000
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SUMMARY:Martin Jay in conversation with Paul Breines
DESCRIPTION:discussing Martin Jay’s new book \nSplinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations \npublished by Verso Press \nThe evening will begin with a short introduction by Robert Kaufman \nAssessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first century. \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(REGISTER HERE) link to be posted soon! \n————– \n(Purchase Book Here) link to be posted soon! \n————– \nAlthough successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances\, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture\, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the school’s history and reading its work in unexpected ways\, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer\, Adorno\, Benjamin\, Marcuse\, Löwenthal\, and Kracauer in our troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument\, they range over a wide variety of topics\, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis\, from Benjamin’s ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man\, from Löwenthal’s role in Weimar’s Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer’s involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of colour in modern art\, the Jewish prohibition on images\, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere\, and the implications of a celebrated Family of Man photographic exhibition. The collection ends with an essay tracing the still metastasising demonisation of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of “cultural Marxism” and “political correctness\,” which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics. \nMartin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he taught Modern European Intellectual History and Critical Theory for forty-five years. Among his works are The Dialectical Imagination; Marxism and Totality; Adorno; Permanent Exiles; Fin-de-siècle Socialism; Force Fields; Downcast Eyes; Cultural Semantics; Refractions of Violence; Songs of Experience; The Virtues of Mendacity; Essays from the Edge; Kracauer: l’exilé; and Reason after Its Eclipse. He has been a regular columnist for Salmagundi since 1987. \nPaul Breines was a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison\, Wisconsin and a member of the Student Council on Civil Rights when he was arrested for his participation in the Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. As part of the Freedom Ride Breines\, along with three other students\, traveled from Nashville\, Tennessee to Jackson\, Mississippi via a Greyhound bus where all four participants were arrested in the Greyhound terminal in Jackson\, Mississippi on 21 July 1961. Paul Breines is also Associate Professor Emeritus of History at Boston College. He is the author of TOUGH JEWS: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry\, and co-author of The Young Lukaacs and the Origins of Western Marxism. \nRobert Kaufman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley\, where he also teaches in\, and is former co-director of\, the interdisciplinary Program in Critical Theory. His teaching and research emphasize several interrelated areas\, the Frankfurt School being one in particular. Kaufman is the author of Negatvive Romaticism: Adornian Aesthetics in Keats\, Shelley\, and Modern Poetry (forthcoming from Cornell University Press)\, and is at work on two related studies: Why Poetry Should Matter—to the Left: Frankfurt Constellations of Democracy and Modernism after Postmodernism? Robert Duncan and the Future-Present of American Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martin-jay-in-conversation-with-paul-breines/
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SUMMARY:THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, August 25\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN by Hendrik Groen. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82208141566. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpSecretDiary\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/SecretDiaryAB. \n\nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nJust because you’re old doesn’t mean you can’t have fun and adventure. Hendrik is a rebel\, determined to live life to the fullest. \n— Mike \n  \nDescription\n\nA #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove: a funny and tender-hearted tale about friendship\, love\, and an old man who is young at heart.\nTechnically speaking\, Hendrik Groen is….elderly. But at age 83 1/4\, this feisty\, indomitable curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums\, exasperated by the indignities of aging\, Hendrik has decided to rebel – on his own terms. He begins writing an exposé: secretly recording the antics of day-to-day life in his retirement home\, where he refuses to take himself\, or his fellow “inmates\,” too seriously. \n  \nWith an eccentric group of friends\, he founds the wickedly anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club\, and he and his best friend\, Evert\, gleefully stir up trouble\, enraging the home’s humorless director and turning themselves into unlikely heroes. And when a sweet and sassy widow moves in next door\, he polishes his shoes\, grooms what’s left of his hair\, and determines to savor every ounce of joy in the time he has left\, with hilarious and tender consequences. \n  \nA bestselling phenomenon that has captured imaginations around the world\, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen is inspiring\, charming\, and laugh-out-loud funny with a deep and poignant core: a page-turning delight for readers of any age. \nAbout the Author\n\nHendrik Groen started his diary on the literary website of Torpedo Magazine. He says about his novel: “There’s not one sentence that’s a lie\, but not every word is true.” The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen has been translated into over twenty languages. \nPraise For…\n\n“Amusing [and] wickedly accurate…Reading The Secret Diary\, I was constantly put in mind of Ken Kesey’s madhouse tale One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest\, another comi-tragedy concerning the tyranny of institutions of the unwanted. Enjoy Groen’s light touch but do not be fooled by it….The Secret Diary is a handbook of resistance for our time.”—The Express (UK) \n“Funny and frank – a story with a great deal of heart.”—Graeme Simsion\, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project \n“A story about how friendship\, selflessness and dignity lie at the heart of the human experience. When I’m an old man\, I want to be Hendrik Groen.”—John Boyne\, internationally bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas \n“An incredible picture of friendship… something we could all stand to emulate\, no matter where we are in our lives.”—Bookpage\, Top Fiction Pick for July \n“Interspersed with Groen’s biting wit and comic take on aging and all it entails… A page-turning delight for adult readers of any age and locale.”—Booklist\, starred review \n“Poignant and true-to-life\, an international bestseller.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune \n“Engaging and hilarious\, Hendrik’s diary gives a dignity and respect to the elderly often overlooked in popular culture\, providing readers a look into the importance of friendship and the realities of the senior care system in modern society.”—Publisher’s Weekly \n“You might say he’s the Elena Ferrante of the octogenarian set – though whether or not he is actually an octogenarian (or a man) is also anyone’s guess. It’s an appealing novel with a lot of heart\, reminding readers young and old that fun is to be found even in the routine of everyday life. And of course\, the possibility that it’s more memoir than fiction is delightful.”—New York Post
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-secret-diary-of-hendrik-groen-ggp-online-book-club/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Dan Pfeiffer\, Un-Trumping America
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Dan Pfeiffer—White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013)\, Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015)\, and co-host of Pod Save America—for an online discussion with Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend about his book\, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again. This ticketed\, online event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and is cosponsored by Santa Cruz Indivisible. It will take place on the Crowdcast platform. \nPLEASE NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for March\, but was postponed due to Covid-19. If you already purchased tickets for the original event\, you are entitled to entry to this virtual event. If you purchased your tickets online\, please check your inbox for an email from Bookshop with information or click here. If you purchased your tickets in the store\,  please fill out the form linked here to register for the new online event. \nTickets for this virtual event are available for purchase on Eventbrite—click here! \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author\, cohost of Pod Save America\, and one of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors: a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump\, McConnell\, Fox News\, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics. \nThere is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020\, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: First\, Trump is not an aberration\, but rather the logical extension of the modern Republican Party; second\, how Democrats can defeat Trump in 2020; and third\, preventing the likes of Trump from ever happening again with a plan to fix democracy. \nDan Pfeiffer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and a cohost on Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors\, he was White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013) and Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015). He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife\, Howli\, and their daughter\, Kyla.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dan-pfeiffer-un-trumping-america-2/
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200826T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Two Languages / One Community with Poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith presents Two Languages / One Community with poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu. They will be reading from and discussing their work. \nTwo Languages / One Community brings together African American and Chinese American writers in a rare cultural exchange based on dialogue and storytelling. Workshop participants write poems and short stories based on memories sparked by photographs of their parents\, their younger selves\, and other family members. The writing is translated in Chinese and English and published online at www.twolanguagesonecommunity.com and in the Catching Memory book series. \n** Please note ** \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \nUse the links in the authors’ bios to purchase their books from Booksmith. You may also purchase Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin by Michael Warr and Little Green: A Memoir of Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Chun Yu when completing your registration. We are offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\n \nMichael Warr‘s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin\, edited by Michael Warr (W.W. Norton)\, and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. In 2017 he was named a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other poetry honors include a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point\, 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 for Poetry. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and has extensive experience in community-based arts. He became a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library in 2018. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n \nChun Yu\, Ph.D. is the author of the multi-award-winning memoir Little Green (Simon & Schuster) and a historical graphic novel in progress (Macmillan) and more. Her work has been published in the award-winning anthology Veterans of War\, Veterans of Peace\, Open Doors\, Boston Herald\, MIT Tech Talk\, etc. Her new bilingual poetry collection in English and Chinese and her graphic novel on Chinese immigration experience have won San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity and Individual Artist Grants. Her work merges science\, art\, and spirituality based on her experiences as an immigrant from an ancient culture undergoing revolution to a new world of transformative science and technologies. She has won support from the Zellerbach Foundation and Poets & Writers etc. for her community work in poetry and writing. Chun holds a B.S. and M.S. from Peking University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers in chemistry\, and was a postdoctoral fellow at a Harvard-MIT joint program. Her website: www.chunyu.org. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nUse the links in the authors’ bios to purchase their books from Booksmith. You may also purchase Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin by Michael Warr and Little Green: A Memoir of Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Chun Yu when completing your registration. We are offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-two-languages-one-community-with-poets-michael-warr-and-chun-yu/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
CREATED:20200706T180815Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: David Eagleman\, Livewired
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book\, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. “Eagleman delivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity. In his view\, the brain’s ability to reconfigure connections between its different areas in response to feedback is ‘quite possibly the most gorgeous phenomenon in biology\,’ and also holds exciting practical applications. Eagleman’s skill as a teacher\, bold vision\, and command of current research will make this superb work a curious reader’s delight.” —Publishers Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-david-eagleman-livewired/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
CREATED:20200725T165102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200725T165102Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Vanessa Veselka / The Great Offshore Grounds
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Zazen author Vanessa Veselka for her new novel The Great Offshore Grounds. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  If you’d like a copy of The Great Offshore Grounds\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\nOn the day of their estranged father’s wedding\, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle\, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats\, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs. Except\, instead of money\, what their father gives them is information–a name–which both reveals a stunning family secret and compels them to come to grips with it. In the face of their new reality\, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another\, as well as their definitions of freedom. \nMoving from Seattle’s underground to the docks of the Far North\, from the hideaways of the southern swamps to the storied reaches of the Great Offshore Grounds\, Vanessa Veselka spins a tale with boundless verve\, linguistic vitality\, and undeniable tenderness. \n\nVanessa Veselka is the author of the novel Zazen\, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA\, and her nonfiction in GQ\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, The Atavist\, and was included in Best American Essays and the anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism. She has been\, at various times\, a teenage runaway\, a sex worker\, a union organizer\, an independent record label owner\, a train hopper\, a waitress\, and a mother. She lives in Portland\, OR. \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have a copy of The Great Offshore Grounds sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-vanessa-veselka-the-great-offshore-grounds/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200827T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
CREATED:20200821T200643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200821T200643Z
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SUMMARY:ACCENTED | Nobody Ever Dies featuring Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
DESCRIPTION:Viet Thanh Nguyen will host a conversation featuring Thao Nguyen from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down for ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora \nThe Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED\, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers\, poets\, artists\, actors\, filmmakers\, scholars\, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora. \nHosted by Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer\, with co-host appearances by the She Who Has No Master(s) Collective\, guests will engage in virtual conversations and discussions regarding their work\, their stories\, and their communities\, with live Q&A sessions following each event.\n—\nThis installation of ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora show will be Thursday\, August 27th at 7:30 pm\, hosted by Pulitzer-prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and will feature musician\, songwriter\, and producer Thao Nguyen\, leader of the rock band Thao and The Get Down Stay Down. Thao has toured nationally and internationally for over 15 years\, and her latest album Temple was released in May on Ribbon Music. She recently performed for NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert and one of her most recent music videos for Phenom\, plays on the familiar format of being on a Zoom video call. She also produced the documentary Nobody Dies\, about her trip to Vietnam with her mother in 2015\, 20 years after the normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam\, as a first-person storytelling of her experience as a daughter of Vietnamese refugees returning to a long lost homeland. \nAbout the Guests:\nThao Nguyen is a musician\, songwriter and producer. She is the leader of the rock band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and has toured nationally and internationally for over 15 years. Her latest album Temple was released in May on Ribbon Music. Visit https://www.thaoandthegetdownstaydown.com/ for more information. \nAbout the Host:\nViet Thanh Nguyen is the author of The Sympathizer\, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War\, The Refugees\, and Race and Resistance: Literature\, Politics and Asian America. His most recent book was Chicken of the Sea\, done with his son Ellison. His next book is The Committed\, the sequel to The Sympathizer. \nDVAN is partnering with Eastwind Books of Berkeley for all book sales and shipping\, and books from featured authors will be available on https://asiabookcenter.com for a discounted price. \nAll funds raised for ACCENTED will go towards supporting DVAN’s mission to promote voices and stories of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora and connect them to diasporic communities all over the globe. \nThis program is sponsored by the DVAN@SFSU Project of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.\nFor more information about the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) please visit our website at https://dvan.org or follow us on Instagram (@weare_dvan) \nDVAN believes that the stories\, imaginaries\, and poetics of a thriving Vietnamese diaspora can unite our global community. Our mission is to celebrate and foster diasporic Vietnamese voices. DVAN presents nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry to empower Vietnamese artists in the diaspora and to promote understanding and dialogue within our community\, and with others. Our complex and diverse stories must be championed and passed on to current and future generations. We are refugees\, immigrants\, survivors\, and descendants\, and our stories must be heard.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/accented-nobody-ever-dies-featuring-thao-the-get-down-stay-down/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Deborah Bryant & Jana Marcus
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Deborah Bryant and Jana Marcus\, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post. Presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links\, including for this event\, will be emailed to you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-deborah-bryant-jana-marcus/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lysley Tenorio and Bruce Snider
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, August 28 at 6pm PDT when Lysley Tenorio and Bruce Snider discuss their new books\, The Son of Good Fortune and Fruit\, with author Molly Antopol on Zoom!\nAnd stop by on Saturday\, August 29 at 5pm when Lysley and Bruce join us for a special\, social distanced book signing for Independent Bookstore Day at\nGreen Apple Books on the Park (9th Ave)! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82440135001\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82440135001#  or +13462487799\,\,82440135001#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 824 4013 5001\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbNwRTXPQb \nAbout The Son of Good Fortune \nA bighearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino teenager as he redefines his relationships with his mother\, his culture\, and the place he calls home \nExcel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (typically in one of their town’s seventeen cemeteries)\, he carefully avoids the spotlight. \nBut Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother\, Maxima\, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather\, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago\, on Excel’s tenth birthday\, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever. “We are tago nang tago\,” she told him\, “hiding and hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life. \nCasting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood\, Excel takes a leap\, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City. Populated by drifters\, old hippies\, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible\, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider? \nThrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful\, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other. \nAbout Fruit \nBruce Snider’s third poetry collection grapples with what it means to be childless in a world obsessed with procreation. Poems move between the scientific and the biblical\, effortlessly sliding from the clinical landscape of a sperm bank to Mount Moriah as Abraham prepares Isaac for sacrifice. Exploring issues of sexuality\, lineage\, and mortality\, Snider delves into subjects as varied as the Creation Museum in Petersburg\, Kentucky; same-sex couple adoption; and Gregor Mendel’s death in 1884. Each poem builds into a broader examination of power and fragility\, domesticity and rebellion\, violence and devotion: heartrending vignettes of the aches and joys of growing up and testing the limits of nature and nurture. In language both probing and sensitive\, Fruit delivers its own conflicted and celebratory answers to pressing questions of life\, death\, love\, and biology.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lysley-tenorio-and-bruce-snider/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day 2020
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with Bookshop Santa Cruz!  \nIndependent Bookstore Day looks a little bit different this year\, but we will still be celebrating alongside more than 450 other bookstores nationwide. Highlights will include exclusive IBD items for sale\, an online Where’s Walt scavenger hunt\, and virtual book trivia. IBD harnesses the creative power of authors\, publishers\, and booksellers to celebrate the reading community and drive readers to brick and mortar bookstores. \nCOMING SOON: Check out this year’s exclusive items here\, only available on Saturday\, August 29th. \nALL DAY FUN: \n• ONLINE Scavenger Hunt: Where’s Walt\n• VIRTUAL Book Bingo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2020/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual and In-Store: Independent Bookstore Day
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate with us all day on Saturday\, August 29\, both in-store and online from the comfort fo your home. \nIn addition to indie-exclusive books and merch we will have available\, we will also have… \nClement St. Activites \nScavenger Hunt in-store and on your phone! \nBook Trivia you can win from your couch! \nIn-store Biography Boards which might make you an award-winning author! \nToni Morrison totes you can make yourself! \nVirtual storytime for kids (and their adults)!\n \n9th Ave. Activities \nBlind date books you might fall in love with! \nHourly Raffles of books from the future! \nOutdoor photobooth for smizing! \nPrisoners Literature Project book drive for incarcerated readers! \nLysley Tenorio and Bruce Snider will join us for a social distanced signing at 5pm for their books\nThe Son of Good Fortune and Fruit \n \nBrowser Books Activities  \nTreasure hunt in-store to win a mini prize or grand prize! \nStorytime for kids (and adults\, too!) \nBlow us away with your Book Puns! Using the hastags #bookpun and #bookstoreday2020 to win a prize!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-and-in-store-independent-bookstore-day/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
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SUMMARY:No Fascist USA! Discussion Series\, Talk #4 - Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley in the first of four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, with Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley. \nEvent co-sponsored by Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville) and Louisiville Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). \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————- \nCity Lights LIVE presents the four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, hosted by Hilary Moore and James Tracy\, author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements. \nTalk #4\, happening on Saturday\, August 29th at 11AM PST / 2PM EST is a conversation with Shane Burley. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville\, KY and Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). Please consider supporting Carmichael’s Bookstore by purchasing a copy of No Fascist USA! from them: (buy link here). \nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS \nHilary Moore is an anti-racist political educator and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice\, and is the co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights\, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press\, 2011). Her newest book is Burning Earth\, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Brussels\, 2020). \nJames Tracy is an author\, organizer\, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. \nShane Burley is a filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin\, In These Times\, Salon\, Truthout\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-fascist-usa-discussion-series-talk-4-hilary-moore-james-tracy-and-shane-burley/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T153000
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SUMMARY:Disability Book Series: Nina G on Stutterer Interrupted
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next installment of the Disability Book Series\, with Nina G and her book Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen. \nThe only female comedian who stuttered when she started 10 years ago\, Nina G believes that the problem isn’t with the stutterer\, but with a society that isn’t inclusive or accessible to those who experience this disability. \nIn her book Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen\, Nina challenges the status quo of how people who stutter are perceived onstage and off. \nAs a child\, Nina had a life-long dream of becoming a comedian\, but never thought she’d be able to go up on stage and make people laugh. Her story is about how stuttering caused her to first abandon her dreams\, then to embark on a journey that culminated in a career as one of only a handful of stuttering stand-up comedians working today. \nHow to Join \nThis event is free and will be on Zoom. We will send the Zoom access link to everyone who registers in advance for this program. Registration closes on 8/29 at 2 pm. \nAbout Nina G \nNina G was the only woman who stuttered in the stand-up comedy world when she started nine years ago. She co-produced the Comedians with Disabilities Act\, a national touring comedy show featuring exclusively comedians with disabilities. Nina’s brand of comedy reflects the experiences of many with disabilities. She tours the country as a conference keynote speaker including at a TEDx talk at San Jose State University. A Huffington Post contributor\, she has a doctorate in psychology\, teaches at a Bay Area Community College\, and lives in Oakland\, California. Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen is her second book. \nAccessibility \nThis event will have both ASL interpreters and live CART captioning services. \nFor any additional accessibility needs\, please contact Peter Estes at (415) 546-1333 ext 309 or peter@sdaction.org \nFree \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/disability-book-series-nina-g-on-stutterer-interrupted-registration-107620921072 ninagbooking@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/disability-book-series-nina-g-on-stutterer-interrupted/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Ursula Hegi (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Ursula Hegi‘s latest novel\, The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls—a story of three mothers\, set on the shores of the Nordsee—is a testament to the ways in which women hold each other up in the most unexpected of circumstances. \nUrsula was born in Germany in 1946 and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. She is the author of 12 books. Several of her novels\, including Stones from the River and Floating in My Mother’s Palm\, explore German and German-American identity in the 20th century. Set in Burgdorf\, a fictional village in Germany\, they are part of the Burgdorf Cycle\, which also includes the novel Children and Fire\, published in 2011. Her work has been translated into many languages\, and her awards include the Italian Grinzane Cavour\, an NEA Fellowship\, and a PEN/Faulkner Award. She has served as a juror for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle. \nUrsula lives with her husband in in New York State. She teaches in the MFA program in Writing and Literature at Stony Brook\, Southampton. \nBarbara Wright is the author of three novels: Crow\, Easy Money\, and Plain Language\, which won a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. She grew up in North Carolina\, has traveled all over the world\, and lived in France\, Korea\, and El Salvador. She worked as a fact-checker for Esquire and as a screenwriter. Barbara lives in Denver\, Colorado with her husband\, Frank Gay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-ursula-hegi-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200830T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200830T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Pramila Jayapal (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Pramila Jayapal’s Use the Power You Have offers a wealth of ideas and inspiration for a new generation of engaged citizens interested in fighting back and making change\, whether in Washington or in their own communities. \nPramila is the Congresswoman who represents Washington’s 7th District\, which encompasses most of Seattle and surrounding areas. The first Indian American woman in the House of Representatives\, Pramila has spent nearly thirty years working internationally and domestically as an advocate for women’s\, immigrant\, civil\, and human rights. She lives in Seattle\, Washington. \nMeena Harris was born into a family of strong women whose legacy continues to inspire her. Her grandmother\, Shyamala Gopalan\, was a cancer researcher and civil rights activist; her mother\, Maya Harris\, is a lawyer and policy expert; and her aunt\, Kamala Harris\, is a United States senator from California and the Democratic vice presidential nominee for the 2020 election. Meena herself is a lawyer and entrepreneur. In 2017 she founded the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign\, a female-powered organization that brings awareness to social causes. She currently resides in San Francisco with her partner and two daughters. \nMeena’s Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea—an empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change—is inspired by a true story from the childhood of her aunt\, US Senator Kamala Harris\, and mother\, lawyer\, and policy expert Maya Harris. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-pramila-jayapal-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200831T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200831T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
CREATED:20200714T190336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200714T190336Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues\, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This fifth event in the series features Sarah Jaquette Ray discussing her book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\nGen Z’s first “existential toolkit” for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice. \nA youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen\, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet’s environmental problems expect to encounter challenges\, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise when they confront this seemingly intractable situation. \nDrawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs\, Sarah Jaquette Ray has created an “existential tool kit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology\, sociology\, social movements\, mindfulness\, and the environmental humanities\, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt\, resist burnout\, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is the essential guidebook for the climate generation—and perhaps the rest of us—as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time. \n\n \nSarah Jaquette Ray teaches environmental studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata\, California\, and is the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture. \n\n\n\n\nUC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith \n\n\n\n\n\n8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century\n8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies\n8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration\n8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment\n8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\n9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety sent to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-sarah-jaquette-ray-a-field-guide-to-climate-anxiety-how-to-keep-your-cool-on-a-warming-planet/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200831T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200831T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
CREATED:20200821T192026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200821T192026Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookseller Happy Hour: Hot Books\, Cool Drinks!
DESCRIPTION:Join Bookshop booksellers as we share some of the hottest recommended books of the season\, while you sip on the cool beverage of your choice from the comfort of home. Come spend an hour with us on Crowdcast to find your next great read.\nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon.\nThis is a free event. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bookseller-happy-hour-hot-books-cool-drinks/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
CREATED:20200805T143641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200805T143641Z
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SUMMARY:Katy Rose Pool and Laura Sebastian
DESCRIPTION:Calling all fantasy readers. \n \nWe are absolutely thrilled to be launching As the Shadow Rises\, Katy Rose Pool’s sequel to the critically-acclaimed\, action packed epic fantasy There Will Come a Darkness\, that explores everything from ancient history to apocalyptic prophecies to fraught sibling relationships. \nThe Last Prophet has been found\, yet he sees destruction ahead. In this sequel\, kingdoms have begun to fall to a doomsday cult\, the magical Graced are being persecuted\, and an ancient power threatens to break free. But with the world hurtling toward its prophesized end\, Anton’s haunting vision reveals the dangerous beginnings of a plan to stop the Age of Darkness. \nThere Will Come a Darkness is a Morris Award Finalist for best debut young adult novel\, it garnered four starred reviews\, and was a 2019 Kirkus Best Book of the Year \n \n\n\n\n\n* “Adventurous relic-hunting\, mind-blowing twists\, budding love\, and terrible betrayals feature in this multiple-narrator\, character-driven study of power\, agency\, and identity and the ways these are affected by the interwoven threads of both history and legend.” ―Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \nKaty will be chatting with Laura Sebastian\, author of Ash Princess series\, and we couldn’t be more excited. Join these two incredible writers as they celebrate As the Shadow Rises and epic fantasy in general We can’t wait.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katy-rose-pool-and-laura-sebastian/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
CREATED:20200827T200348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200827T200348Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Eula Biss
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tueday\, September 1 at 6pm for the launch of bestselling author Eula Biss’ new book\, Having and Being Had on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84064965260 \nWebinar ID: 840 6496 5260 \nPraise for Having and Being Had \n“A major achievement. Having and Being Had\, rather than leading through narrative\, turns individual words and phrases\, like capitalism\, consumers\, great America\, husbandry\, art\, and work\, into fields of inquiry in order to frame a life. With astute consideration\, this expansive and intimate accumulation asks the questions that touch all our lives.” —Claudia Rankine \n“Eula Biss’s prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn’t know I felt about money\, capitalism\, and my place inside of an economy that always requires so much of me and gives back so little. A brilliant\, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why\, and who in turn might own us in ways we didn’t know we consented to—what could be more necessary now?” —Alexander Chee \nAbout Having and Being Had \nA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land \n“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts\,” Eula Biss writes\, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home\, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges—in libraries and laundromats\, over barstools and backyard fences—Having and Being Had examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides\, like a chess player\,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury\, of accumulation and consumption\, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon\, Biss asks\, of both herself and her class\, “In what have we invested?”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eula-biss-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
CREATED:20200825T204013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200825T204013Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Eula Biss
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tueday\, September 1 at 6pm for the launch of bestselling author Eula Biss’ new book\, Having and Being Had on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84064965260\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84064965260#  or +12532158782\,\,84064965260#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 840 6496 5260\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kiHZt5N7n \nPraise for Having and Being Had \n“A major achievement. Having and Being Had\, rather than leading through narrative\, turns individual words and phrases\, like capitalism\, consumers\, great America\, husbandry\, art\, and work\, into fields of inquiry in order to frame a life. With astute consideration\, this expansive and intimate accumulation asks the questions that touch all our lives.” —Claudia Rankine \n“Eula Biss’s prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn’t know I felt about money\, capitalism\, and my place inside of an economy that always requires so much of me and gives back so little. A brilliant\, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why\, and who in turn might own us in ways we didn’t know we consented to—what could be more necessary now?” —Alexander Chee \n“Eula Biss is known for stepping off the plank into turbulent waters that others might fear or avoid\, armed with wry wit and a radical lucidity. Having and Being Had continues this journey\, offering us a probing tour of capitalism and class that sidesteps posturing and jargon in favor of clarity\, humility\, and incitement.” —Maggie Nelson\n \nAbout Having and Being Had \nA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land \n“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts\,” Eula Biss writes\, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home\, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges—in libraries and laundromats\, over barstools and backyard fences—Having and Being Had examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides\, like a chess player\,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury\, of accumulation and consumption\, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon\, Biss asks\, of both herself and her class\, “In what have we invested?”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eula-biss/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200902T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
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SUMMARY:Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
DESCRIPTION:PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST\n2020 SCHEDULE\n\n\nWelcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians\nhttps://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0\n\n\nSeptember 2\, 1pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring NPR’s Malaka Gharib\, Sari-Sari Storybooks’ founder Christina Newhard & NYT bestselling YA author Erin Entrada Kelly. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction\, Middle School/YA)\nhttps://youtu.be/k4U_bDFfrmo\n\n\nSeptember 3\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents “Poetry & Home in Diaspora” featuring Kai Coggin\, Lee Herrick\, Antonio Lopez & Persis Karim. SMCL YouTube (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/rH_thzyluCc\n\n\nSeptember 7\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Irenosen Okojie\, London-based author & winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing\, Murzban Shroff\, Mumbai-based author & recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award\, and Ricco Siasoco\, San Francisco-based author & National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Facebook Watch Party. (Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/8eI1E8NySAg\n\n\nSeptember 10\, 6pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Thea Matthews with MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein & Tongo Eisen-Martin. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/480Primrose/videos/1475338219322119\n\n\nSeptember 16\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Veronica Montes with Alan Chazaro\, Elsa Valmidiano & Ricco Siasoco. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/2661021164214044\n\n\nSeptember 17\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala\, Marianne Chan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao & Jean Vengua. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/754302115300958\n\n\nSeptember 20\n“The Makers’ Call to Action” featuring Kai Coggin\, Samuel Getachew\, Tureeda Mikell\, Dena Rod and Michael Simms.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/tv/CFVnf_YhmoM/\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 2:30pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Ellen Bass\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Danusha Lameris\, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/TLLuK6Jp-_Y\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Johanna Ely\, Joel Katz\, Phyllis Klein\, Ron Riekki\, Jacki Rigoni\, Kim Shuck\, Tanuja Wakefield & July Westhale. Hosted by San Mateo County Inaugural Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/311565253246052/\n\n\n\nSeptember 22\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Janet Stickmon with Michelle Bautista\, Herna Cruz-Louie & Melinda Luisa de Jesus. Webinar/FB Live. (Nonfiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/681790089360727\n\n\nSeptember 24\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Maw Shein Win with Jennifer Hasegawa\, Jenny Qi & Audrey T. Williams. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2312434539051532/\n\n\n\nSeptember 30\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Carole Bumpus\, Joan Gelfand\, Audrey Kalman & Geri Spieler\, with California Writers Club Immediate Past President Lisa Meltzer Penn. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3266256730087640/\n\n\n\nOctober 3\, 1pm PT\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring children’s book authors Christina Newhard\, Gayle Romasanta & Justine Villanueva\, and illustrator Lynnor Bontigao. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3407003262725443/\n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Cody Tolmasoff. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Middle School/YA Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/A5dmcSeWnPE\n\n\nOctober 13\, 3pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest with devorah major\, Jason Bayani & James Cagney. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/719854585237673/\n\n\n\nOctober 23 (time TBA)\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring July Westhale\, author of “Occasionally Accurate Science” and Nomadic Press’ J.K. Fowler.\n\n\nOctober 26\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Francesca Bell\, Barbara Berman\, Joe Cottonwood\, Peter N. Carroll\, Ken Haas\, Kathleen McClung\, Connie Post\, & Lee Rossi. Hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Facebook Watch Party/SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/4134399856630670/\n\n\n\nOctober 29 (details TBA)\n\n\n#virtualbookfest #bookfest #PeninsulaBookfest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peninsula-virtual-bookfest/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto":MAILTO:acassine@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200902T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200902T200000
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SUMMARY:Héctor Tobar in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:discussing Héctor Tobar’s new book \nThe Last Great Road Bum \npublished by Farrar Straus and Giroux \nIn The Last Great Road Bum\, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana\, Illinois\, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. \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. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nJoe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was\, in his words\, a “road bum\,” an adventurer and a storyteller\, belonging to no place\, people\, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana\, Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America. With these facts\, acclaimed novelist and journalist Héctor Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum. \nA decade ago\, Tobar came into possession of the personal writings of the late Joe Sanderson\, which chart Sanderson’s freewheeling course across the known world\, from Illinois to Jamaica\, to Vietnam\, to Nigeria\, to El Salvador—a life determinedly an adventure\, ending in unlikely\, anonymous heroism. \nThe Last Great Road Bum is the great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written\, but did truly live—a fascinating\, timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like Héctor Tobar could pull off. \nHéctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Deep Down Dark\, as well as The Barbarian Nurseries\, Translation Nation\, and The Tattooed Soldier. Tobar is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California\, Irvine. He has written for The New Yorker\, the Los Angeles Times\, and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories\, L.A. Noir\, ZYZZYVA\, and Slate. The son of Guatemalan immigrants\, he is a native of Los Angeles\, where he lives with his family. \nOscar Villalon is the Managing Editor of Zyzzyva Magazine. He is is the former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. His reviews have appeared on NPR.org and KQED’s “The California Report.” \n\n\n\n\nPraise for The Last Great Road Bum\n“Héctor Tobar uses every method at his disposal to encircle the facts of the ‘conspicuous gringo’ whose archive landed in his lap. I’m in awe of the results\, an alchemical amalgam of tender portraiture and illuminating context\, with a voice full of riffs and references\, and charming as hell. Tobar can seemingly do anything as a writer; here he bridges fiction and nonfiction effortlessly.” —Jonathan Lethem \n“Tobar’s stunning follow-up to Deep Down Dark draws from the unbelievable true story of Joe Sanderson\, a peripatetic would-be-writer who left a comfortable existence in Urbana\, Ill.\, in order to travel the world in search of material for a great American novel. Instead\, he found romance\, danger\, and the dark heart of the mid-20th century…Tobar brilliantly succeeds in capturing Joe’s guileless yearning for adventure through high-velocity prose that is both relentless and wry.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“The vividly realized particulars of [Joe Sanderson’s] restless journeys are offered in Tobar’s remarkable novelization of Sanderson’s real life\, his adventures and misadventures…. His life itself has inspired what is inarguably a great novel\, a tribute to him that is beautifully written and spectacularly imagined. Tobar writes that it took him 11 years to complete this wonderful book. Readers will rejoice that he persisted.”\n—Booklist\, starred review \n“The speed and respect and sensitivity with which Tobar can encapsulate a life is dazzling…The novel muses on who gets to tell stories as it probes the lines between myth and reality. This is first rate storytelling from a writer who deepens the sky with every book he writes.” —John Freeman\, Lit Hub Summer Preview \nPraise for Héctor Tobar\n“A riveting story…[but] why it’s an extraordinary book is because of Héctor Tobar’s writing\, which is so beautiful and so thoughtful that he’s taking on all of the big issues of life: what is life worth\, what is the value of one human life\, what is faith\, who do we become in our darkest hour? He really brings this story to a level that I don’t feel anyone else could have done . . . It’s the best book of the year.” —Ann Patchett\, NPR’s Morning Edition on Deep Down Dark \n“Hector Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier brings the enmities of the Guatemalan civil war to the L.A. riots.” —Jeffrey Fleishman\, Los Angeles Times on The Tattooed Soldier \n“[Tobar] succeeds in bringing into focus both the civil turmoil that racks Guatemala and the inner turmoil that can consume people anywhere.” —People\, on The Tattooed Soldier \n“A triumph . . . Crosswires de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America with Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries.” —Steve Erickson\, New York Times Book Review\, on Translation Nation \n“A book of extraordinary scope and extraordinary power.” –Richard Rayner\, Los Angeles Times\, on Barbarian Nurseries \n“[Tobar] exhibits a seismographic sensitivity to the tensions along the fault lines of his cultural terrain . . . His illuminations become our recognitions.” –Rebecca Donner\, The New York Times Book Review\, on Barbarian Nurseries \n“Both timely and timeless . . . Tobar continually creates moments of uncommon magic.” –-Elle\, on Barbarian Nurseries
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hector-tobar-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200903T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200903T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053212
CREATED:20200827T195105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200827T195105Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carole Stivers and John Markoff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 3 at 6:00pm PST when Carole Stivers discusses her debut novel\, The Mother Code\, with John Markoff on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81537772295 \nWebinar ID: 815 3777 2295 \nPraise for The Mother Code \n“Carole Stivers is far from the first to wonder if motherhood can be scientifically replicated\, but this is a thoughtful and thought-provoking addition to that meditation. An end-of-times tale that focuses less on what has been lost and more on what and who might be saved (and how). Stivers’ wonderful story settles right on the line between human and machine\, as blame and threat and rescue and love shift from character to character in surprising and powerful ways.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \nAbout The Mother Code \nIn this mind-bending debut novel\, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. \nIt is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry\, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail\, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots—to be incubated\, birthed\, and raised by these machines\, which have been programmed with the latest advances in artificial intelligence: the Mother Code. \nKai is born in America’s desert Southwest\, his only companion his robotic Mother\, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and intuition of a human mother\, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. As children like him come of age\, their Mothers transform too—in ways that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that the machines who raised the children must be destroyed\, Kai must fight to save the only parent he has ever known.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carole-stivers-and-john-markoff-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200903T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200903T200000
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nRed Pill: a novel \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nFrom the widely acclaimed author of White Tears\, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth. \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. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nAfter receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany\, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write\, he takes long walks and binge-watches Blue Lives–a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak\, Darwinian view of life–and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. \nWannsee is a place full of ghosts: Across the lake\, the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution\, and in his walks he passes the grave of the Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist\, who killed himself after deciding that “no happiness was possible here on earth.” When some friends drag him to a party where he meets Anton\, the creator of Blue Lives\, the narrator begins to believe that the two of them are involved in a cosmic battle\, and that Anton is “red-pilling” his viewers–turning them toward an ugly\, alt-rightish worldview–ultimately forcing the narrator to wonder if he is losing his mind. \n\nHari Kunzru is the author of five previous novels: White Tears\, The Impressionist\, Transmission\, My Revolutions\, and Gods Without Men. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages\, and his short stories and journalism have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and The New Yorker. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the New York Public Library\, and the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nWhat has been said about Red Pill \n\n“Razor-sharp . . . as an allegory about how well-meaning liberals have been blindsided by pseudo-intellectual bigots with substantial platforms\, it’s bleak but compelling . . . ‘Kafkaesque’ is an overused term\, but it’s an apt one for this dark tale of fear and injustice.”—Kirkus (starred) \n“Dazzling . . . Kunzru has created a complex\, challenging\, and bold story about a world gone amok. . .” —Booklist (starred)
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