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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200927T160000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Michael Ian Black (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Michael Ian Black‘s A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son\, is both poignant look at boyhood in the form of a heartfelt letter from the comedian to his teenage son before he leaves for college\, and a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love. \nMichael is an actor\, comedian\, and writer who started his career with the sketch comedy show The State on MTV\, and has created and starred in many other television shows. Movie appearances include Wet Hot American Summer\, The Baxter\, and Sextuplets. He is the author of several books for children\, including the award-winning I’m Bored\, I’m Sad\, and I’m Worried\, and the parody A Child’s First Book of Trump. His books for adults include the memoirs You’re Not Doing It Right and Navel Gazing\, and the essay collection My Custom Van. Michael also co-authored with Meghan McCain America\, You Sexy Bitch. As a stand-up comedian\, Michael regularly tours the country\, and he has released several comedy albums. His podcasts include Mike & Tom Eat Snacks\, with Tom Cavanagh; Topics\, with Michael Showalter; How to Be Amazing; and Obscure. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children. \nPeggy Orenstein is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Boys & Sex\, Girls & Sex\, Cinderella Ate My Daughter\, and Waiting for Daisy\, as well as Don’t Call Me Princess\, Flux\, and the classic Schoolgirls. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and AFAR\, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Post\, New York\, The Atlantic\, and The New Yorker\, and has contributed commentaries to NPR’s All Things Considered. She has been featured on\, among other programs\, Good Morning America\, CBS This Morning\, The Today Show\, Morning Joe\, NPR’s Fresh Air\, and The PBS News Hour. Her TED Talk\, “What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure\,” has been viewed over five million times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-michael-ian-black-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:BAWDY STORYTELLING: THE OFFICIAL AFTERPARTY OF FOLSOM STREET FAIR
DESCRIPTION:We need Kink Community\, now more than ever. \nAnd Bawdy Storytelling is the perfect way to come together this year – right after Folsom Street Fair\, hosted by Margaret Cho! \nDate: Sunday\, September 27th\, 2020  \nTime:  7 PM PST/9 PM CST/10 PM EST. \nTickets are available in Tiered Pricing (starting at $10 for Pandemic Pricing\, all the way up to our Exhibitionist Panel – where you’re a part of the show\, and join our performers on the screen!) The Best Deal? Become a member of Bawdy’s Patreon (at the Sexy Sidekick – $10/month level and higher) and you’ll get FREE tickets to our Livestreams – plus the Replays\, too. Please get your tickets right away to make sure you can be part of each night of one-of-a-kind stories\, weird antics\, and open-minded community. \nThis evening of Stories\, Songs & S*x Toys includes: \n• Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n• Storytellers to come – Stay Tuned! \n• Music by the brilliant Jefferson Bergey \n• Buy the Exhibitionist/Panelist Ticket & get a Cool GIFT #ButtPlugClub \n• Try our new Voyeur ticket for behind the scenes access\, enhanced chat & more \n• Sponsored by the best lube out there: Uberlube! \n• Prizes include Quarantine Fashion from Dirty Masks \n• Sexy Bath Prizes from Hip Modern Soap Co. \nWant Free Tickets to this show? Become a Member of our Patreon and get free tickets\, free livestream replays & much. more! \nNot a member of Bawdy’s Patreon yet? Become a member NOW and in addition to ad-free podcast episodes and our new behind-the-scenes story coaching series\, you’ll get free tickets and free replays for Bawdy’s Livestreams!erf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-the-official-afterparty-of-folsom-street-fair/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200928T183000
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SUMMARY:Joe Clifford in conversation with Jennifer Hillier - The Lakehouse (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:After being cleared of his wife’s murder\, Todd Norman returns to her small Connecticut hometown in order to finish building their dream house by the lake. He is eager to restart his life and cast aside any remaining suspicious—but all of that is dashed when a young woman’s body washes up on the beach next door. When Tracy Somerset\, divorced mother from the small town of Covenant\, CT\, meets a handsome stranger in a midnight Wal-Mart\, she has no idea she is speaking with Todd Norman\, the former Wall Street financier dubbed “The Banker Butcher” by the New York tabloids. The following morning\, on the beach by Norman’s back-under-construction lakehouse\, another young woman’s body is discovered. Sheriff Duane Sobczak’s investigation leads him to town psychiatrist Dr. Meshulum Bakshir\, whose position at a troubled girls’ group home a decade ago yields disturbing ties to several local\, prominent players\, including a radical preacher\, a disgraced politician\, a down-and-out PI―and Sobczak’s own daughter. \nUnfolding over the course of New England’s distinct four seasons\, The Lakehouse is a domestic psychological thriller about the wayward and marginalized\, the lies we tell those closest to us\, and the price of forbidden love in an insular community where it seems everyone has a story to tell―and a past they prefer stay buried. \nJoe Clifford is the author of five novels in his bestselling\, Anthony Award-nominated Jay Porter series\, as well as the acclaimed addiction memoir Junkie Love. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two sons. Visit him at joeclifford.com and follow him at @joeclifford23. \nJennifer Hillier was born and raised in Toronto\, Canada\, lived in the Seattle area for years\, and has just moved back to Toronto with her husband and son. She is the author of Wonderland\, Creep\, Jar of Hearts\, and Little Secrets
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-clifford-in-conversation-with-jennifer-hillier-the-lakehouse-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T130000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Andreas Karelas\, Katharine Hayhoe\, & Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Beacon Press\nJoin us on Tuesday\, September 29 at 1pm PDT for the book launch of Andreas Karelas’ Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community\, Transform the Economy\, and Bridge the Political Divide in America\nwith special guests Katharine Hayhoe and Bill McKibben \nRegister for the event here \nAndreas Karelas is joined by climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe and environmentalist Bill McKibben in a roundtable discussion on how saving our planet\, our economy\, and our democracy are not mutually exclusive goals. \nAndreas Karelas\, author of Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community\, Transform the Economy\, and Bridge the Political Divide in America\, is the founder and executive director of RE-volv\, a nonprofit organization that empowers people around the country to help nonprofits in their communities go solar and raise awareness about the benefits of clean energy. He is a dedicated clean-energy advocate with over 15 years of environmental and renewable energy experience. He is an Audubon TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership Fellow and an OpenIDEO Climate Innovator Fellow. He lives and works in San Francisco. Connect with him at re-volv.org and on Twitter at @AndreasKarelas. \nKatharine Hayhoe\, who wrote the foreword for Climate Courage\, is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is an endowed professor in the Dept. of Political Science at Texas Tech University\, she hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding\, and she has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People\, the United Nations Champion of the Environment\, and the World Evangelical Alliance’s Climate Ambassador. \nBill McKibben\, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?\, is a founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to have warned of the dangers of global warming. He is the author of the bestsellers The End of Nature\, Eaarth\, and Deep Economy. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize\, the Thomas Merton Prize\, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He lives in Vermont. \nThis event is free and open to the public. For this event\, we are partnering with San Francisco-based indie bookstore Green Apple Books\, so PLEASE use links provided to purchase your copy of our panelists books today! \nRegister for the event at the link below\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-courage-launch-andreas-karelas-katharine-hayhoe-bill-mckibben-tickets-119454560807
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-andreas-karelas-katharine-hayhoe-bill-mckibben/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T170000
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SUMMARY:[Virtual Ruby] Q&A with Brit Bennett\, author of THE VANISHING HALF
DESCRIPTION:[This is a Virtual Ruby event. Nonmembers are welcome to join;  please donate if you are able! This event will take place over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86377643402?pwd=algvK2FNYUNvQ1dNbmx6bFVrVVd6Zz09] \nJoin us for a Q&A with New York Times–bestselling author Brit Bennett! We encourage you to read The Vanishing Half before this event. Find it at local booksellers including Green Apple Books. \nAbout Brit Bennett \nBrit Bennett is the author of the New York Times–bestselling novel The Mothers; a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for the best first book\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award; and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel. \nAbout The Vanishing Half \nFrom The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers\, a stunning new novel about twin sisters\, inseparable as children\, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds\, one black and one white. \nThe Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small\, southern black community and running away at age sixteen\, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults\, it’s everything: their families\, their communities\, their racial identities. Many years later\, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white\, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still\, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies\, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation\, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect? \nWeaving together multiple strands and generations of this family\, from the Deep South to California\, from the 1950s to the 1990s\, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting\, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race\, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions\, desires\, and expectations\, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. \nAs with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers\, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative\, compassionate and wise. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ruby-qa-with-brit-bennett-author-of-the-vanishing-half-tickets-118394829121
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ruby-qa-with-brit-bennett-author-of-the-vanishing-half/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T190000
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SUMMARY:ReTargeting Iran
DESCRIPTION:Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ltKvFjldSkuS9Em-JDXLgQ\n\nWhat will it take to reverse the current US escalation trajectory\, and what about after the election? Is there a potential for a diplomatic solution\, and can Washington and Tehran find common ground? \nDavid Barsamian is the author of ReTargeting Iran\, a new book of conversations with experts on the US-Iran relationship. \nRegister for this virtual book talk\, co-sponsored by Institute for Policy Studies and City Lights Books\, when David talks with two of those experts\, Hader Hashemi and Trita Parsi\, in an event moderated by Phyllis Bennis. \nRegister on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ltKvFjldSkuS9Em-JDXLgQ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/retargeting-iran/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T180000
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SUMMARY:David Eagleman
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nWith rave reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly\, from Khaled Hosseini and Russell Brand alike\, Livewired is a fascinating review of the brain that you absolutely need right now. With his usual clarity\, approachability and brilliance\, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers with this book a hope that even 2020 cannot crush: the ability of your brain\, perhaps the world’s most complex machine\, to adapt constantly to change. How does the brain absorb new experiences\, sensory input\, and insight? How does it interface with new technologies\, or the sudden loss of sight? The answers this beloved writer puts forward will delight and inform you. \nBolstered by Eagleman’s wit and contagious enthusiasm\, Livewired details the connection between our bodies and minds\, the brain’s adaptations to grief\, responses to change\, and more. It is a manual to the self that you didn’t know you needed\, accented with captivating stories from the frontiers of neuroscience. \nIn an hour-long conversation online with Angie Coiro for This is Now\, return favorite Eagleman shares science that is triumphant and hopeful. \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.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-eagleman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T180000
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SUMMARY:Eileen Myles
DESCRIPTION:eading from her new book \nFor Now \npublished by Yale University Press \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———– \nIn this raucous meditation\, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. With erudition and wit\, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors\, friends\, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time. \nFor Myles\, time’s “optic quality” is what enables writing in the first place—as attention\, as devotion\, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is\, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent\, generous\, and always insightful\, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists. \nEileen Myles is an acclaimed poet and writer who has published over twenty works of fiction\, poetry\, nonfiction\, and libretto. Their prizes and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Warhol/Creative Capital grant\, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. \nPraise for the Writing of Eileen Myles\n\n“Myles possesses\, in abundance\, two qualities of the highest value for a writer\, irreverence and relentless curiosity.”\n―New York Times Book Review\n\n“[Myles’s] work is hard to describe\, best encountered on its own terms; suffice to say it combines frankness and beauty in a truly original way.”\n—The Guardian\n\n“Myles is a big deal\, a rock star\, sort of like the Patti Smith of contemporary poetry…. Myles is relentlessly casual\, and even joyful. [Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell\, and like a hip Virgil\, is happy to show us the way.”\n—NPR.org\n\n“To read Eileen Myles is to feel as if the poet\, after spotting you across the room at a crowded party\, has guided you by the elbow to a private corner to confide their personal theories of the universe.”\n―O\, the Oprah Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eileen-myles-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T190000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer "A Very Gay Book Reading"
DESCRIPTION:The Perfectly Queer reading series returns to host “A Very Gay Book Reading” online via Zoom Tuesday\, September 29\, 7pm to 8:15pm. Four Gay authors will read from brand new books: Rick May (GAY ALL YEAR)\, Wayne Goodman (ALL THE RIGHT PLACES)\, Rob Rosen (TED OF THE D’UBERVILLES)\, and Jim Provenzano (FINDING TULSA). \nThe Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84457652109pwd=aVJGenpUa3F5Ym11VDNwVHNtNllVZz09 \nThis event is free. Copies of all four books are available at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, San Francisco or by ordering from your local independent bookstore. \nAuthor information:\nRick May’s short fiction has been published in his three collections GAY ALL YEAR: Twelve Optimistic Stories\, INHUMAN BEINGS: Monsters\, Myths\, and Science Fiction\, and GINGER SNAPS: Photos & Stories (with photographer David Sweet) and numerous anthologies and literary periodicals. He lives in San Francisco. \nWayne Goodman lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner Rick May (and too many cats). His writing tends to be historical fiction with a focus on LGBTQ+ characters. He is the host of Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with Queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing\, he likes to play piano music from the Gilded Age. \nJim Provenzano is the author of seven novels including FINDING TULSA and the Lambda Literary Award winner EVERY TIME I THINK OF YOU and Lambda Literary Award finalist MESSAGE OF LOVE\, plus several plays and a short story collection. A prolific journalist\, editor\, and photographer in LGBTQ+ media for three decades\, he lives in San Francisco. \nRob Rosen is an editor and the author of numerous short stories and the award-winning novels SPARKLE: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, DIVAS LAS VEGAS\, HOT LAVA\, SOUTHERN FRIED\, QUEERWOLF\, VAMP\, QUEENS OF THE APOCALYPSE\, CREATURE COMFORT\, FATE\, MIDLIFE CRISIS\, FIERCE\, AND GOD BELCHED\, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTCH\, and TED OF THE D’URBERVILLES.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-a-very-gay-book-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T210000
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SUMMARY:Juan Felipe Herrera & Naomi Shihab Nye: Every Day We're More Illegal
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, Sept 29\, 7-9pm Pacific time \nKPFA Radio 94.1 FM with City Lights Books presents a webinar \nJuan Felipe Herrera & Naomi Shihab Nye\nEvery Day We’re More Illegal\nwith Sabrina Jacobs \nAfter two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate\, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness\, and later\, in quiet moments of reflection\, here coalesce into an urgent yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges\, the wild injustice of our streets\, the lethal border game that separates and divides\, and then a shift – a leap for peace and a view into the possibility of unity. Every Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the collective conscience\, a jolt filled with the many voices of everyday life in America. \nAnother of the most colorful\, cherished and charismatic voices in America is that of Naomi Shihab Nye\, a poet\, songwriter\, and novelist. She will read some of her own work and talk with her friend Juan Felipe on the theme – Every Day We Get More Illegal. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother\, Naomi composed her first poem when was six years old. She has since published or contributed to over thirty books\, including poetry\, young-adult fiction\, anthologies\, and novels. Among her books are Habibi\, 19 Varieties of Gazelle\, Red Suitcase\, Fuel\, and A Maze Me. \nJuan Felipe Herrera\, in addition to being a poet\, is a performer\, writer\, cartoonist\, teacher and activist. His twenty-plus books include The Upside Down Book\, Thunderweavers\, Notes on the Assemblage\, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007\, and Half the World in Light. He is known for his often-bilingual and autobiographical poems on immigration\, Chicano identity\, and life in California. Herrera was born to migrant farmworkers in southern California and spent his early youth on the move\, living in tents and trailers in small farming towns throughout the San Joaquin Valley. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-felipe-herrera-naomi-shihab-nye-every-day-were-more-illegal/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. her writing as appear in the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, The Believer\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T180000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery\, Becoming a Good Creature
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book\, Becoming a Good Creature. Based on the New York Times best-selling adult memoir\, Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s beautiful\, friendly guide is for readers young and old who wish to be better creatures in the world. Go ahead\, pass it on. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nSchool is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature\, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship\, compassion\, and how to be a better creature in the world. \nSy Montgomery has had many teachers in her life: some with two legs\, others with four\, or even eight! Some have had fur\, feathers\, or hooves. But they’ve all had one thing in common: a lesson to share. \nThe animals Sy has met on her many world travels have taught her how to seek understanding in the most surprising ways\, from being patient to finding forgiveness and respecting others. Gorillas\, dogs\, octopuses\, tigers\, and more all have shown Sy that there are no limits to the empathy and joy we can find in each other if only we take the time to connect. \nSY MONTGOMERY In addition to researching films\, articles\, and over twenty books\, National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery has been honored with a Sibert Medal\, two Science Book and Film Prizes from the National Association for the Advancement of Science\, three honorary degrees\, and many other awards. She lives in Hancock\, New Hampshire\, with her husband\, Howard Mansfield\, and their border collie\, Thurber.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sy-montgomery-becoming-a-good-creature-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200923T171523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T171523Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Hollis with Brit Barron - Didn't See That Coming (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:I want you to know that what’s been good will always be good: the smell of coconut sunblock\, a five year old showing you the spot where his front tooth used to be\, a home-cooked meal\, when your love kisses that exact spot on your neck\, a grandmother’s handwriting\, a job well done\, the kindness of strangers\, the human spirit\, an Appaloosa horse\, the ritual of your faith\, laughing until you pee your pants a little\, holiday dessert tables\, first birthday parties\, a perfect cup of coffee. What’s good will always be good\, and one of the most awful\, beautiful things about the hard seasons is that unless we experience hardship\, we’ll never truly appreciate the goodness. \nFear. Grief. Loss. Betrayal. Rachel Hollis has felt all those things. Now\, she takes you to the other side. Rachel Hollis sees you. As the millions who read her #1 ​New York Times bestsellers ​Girl\, Wash Your​ ​Face​ and ​Girl\, Stop Apologizing​\, attend her RISE conferences\, and follow her on social media know\, she also wants to see you transform. When it comes to the “hard seasons” of life—the death of a loved one\,  divorce\, loss of a job—transformation seems impossible when grief and uncertainty dominate your days. Especially when\, as ​Didn’t See That Coming​ reveals\, no one asks to have their future completely rearranged for them. \nBut\, as Rachel writes\, it is up to you how you come through your pain—you can come through changed for the better\, having learned and grown\, or stuck in place where your identity becomes rooted in what hurt you.  With her signature humor\, heartfelt honesty and true-life stories\, Rachel shares how to embrace the difficult moments in life for the learning experiences they are\, and that a life well-lived is one of purpose and focused on the essentials. This is a small book about big feelings\, inspirational\, aspirational\, and an anchor that shows that darkness can co-exist with the beautiful. \nRachel Hollis laid the foundation for her lifestyle brand and media company with the same unfiltered honesty and staunch inclusivity that made her a two-time #1 New York Times bestselling author. Hollis connects with a highly engaged and growing global audience of women who treasure her transparency and optimism. She is one of the most sought-after motivational speakers\, plays host to one of today’s top business podcasts\, and is a proud mama of four who uses her platform to empower and embolden women around the world. Rachel calls Texas home; more specifically the Hill Country just outside of Austin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-hollis-with-brit-barron-didnt-see-that-coming-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200827T200559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200827T200559Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052 \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200814T135334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200814T135334Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83537126052#  or +12532158782\,\,83537126052#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kWpuBjfHD \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200924T200340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T200340Z
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SUMMARY:SFPL Live - Benjamin Bac Sierra in convo with Luis Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with iVIVA!: Latino Heritage Month SFPL is honored to host Benjamin Bac Sierra as our On the Same Page author. We will celebrate this local author\, educator\, poet\, activist and Mission District native. Bac Sierra’s new book Pura Neta\, the long awaited sequel to Barrio Bushido is due out in mid September Pochino Press. Benjamin Bac Sierra will be interviewed by  Luis Rodriguez\, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca and most recently From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer. \nSet in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to 2014\, Pura Neta explores the creative struggle of Homeboys and Homegirls fighting against gentrification\, police brutality\, racism and economic and educational injustice.  \nBenjamin Bac Sierra  was raised by a widowed mother and the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District. After serving as a grunt in the Marine Corps\, where he participated in front-line combat during the first Gulf War\, Ben completed his B.A. in English at U.C. Berkeley\, earned a teaching credential and a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and merited a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California\, Hastings College of the Law. Currently\, he is a professor at City College of San Francisco and a community innovator and keynote speaker throughout the Bay Area. Ben’s essays and stories have been published in newspapers and literary magazines His first novel Barrio Bushido was presented a Best of the Bay Award and an International Latino Book Award.  \nLuis Rodriguez is a former Los Angeles Poet Laureate. He has 16 books\, is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and co-founder Tia Chucha’s Cultural Center & Bookstore. Rodriguez has two autobiographical accounts of his experiences with gang violence and addiction\, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love\, Addiction\, Revolutions\, and Healing (Touchstone\, 2012)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\, and a mandatory read\,  Always Running: La Vida Loca\, Gang Days in L.A. (Curbstone Books\, 1993)\, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. His latest book\, From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer\, explores race\, culture\, identity and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation.  \nConnect with Ben Bac Sierra: Website \nConnect with Luis Rodrigues: Website | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/PuraNeta9-30-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live:  https://youtu.be/gzha5aCxQhY \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-live-benjamin-bac-sierra-in-convo-with-luis-rodriguez/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200805T145746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200908T212511Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Caitlin Doughty / Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Caitlin Doughty for the paperback release of her New York Times bestseller Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?! More information to come\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a signed copy of the book. Tickets can be purchased in advance here. Advance tickets are highly recommended\, as tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\nEvery day\, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? \nIn Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?\, Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual\, hilarious\, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice\, Doughty details lore and science of what happens to\, and inside\, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death? Readers will learn the best soil for mummifying your body\, whether you can preserve your best friend’s skull as a keepsake\, and what happens when you die on a plane. \nBeautifully illustrated by Dianné Ruz\, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art\, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it. \n\nCaitlin Doughty is a mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity. She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician. She lives in Los Angeles\, California\, where she owns and runs a funeral home. \n\n** Please note ** \n>  This is a ticketed event. Each ticket includes a signed copy of the paperback edition of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? – no exceptions. If you already have a copy\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve alredy gifted this title to all of your friends\, please write events@booksmith.com and we’ll work things out. \n>  This is an all-ages event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-caitlin-doughty-will-my-cat-eat-my-eyeballs/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200923T171701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T171701Z
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SUMMARY:Reverend Al Sharpton - Rise Up (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A rousing call to action for today’s turbulent political moment\, drawing on lessons learned from Reverend Sharpton’s unique experience as a politician\, television and radio host\, and civil rights leader. \nWhen the young Alfred Charles Sharpton told his mother he wanted to be a preacher\, little did he know that his journey would also lead him to prominence as a politician\, founder of the National Action Network\, civil rights activist\, and television and radio talk show host. His enduring ability and willingness to take on the political power structure makes him the preeminent voice for the modern era\, a time unprecedented in its challenges. \nIn Rise Up\, Reverend Sharpton revisits the highlights of the Obama administration\, the 2016 election and Trump’s subsequent hold on the GOP\, and draws on his decades-long experience with other key players in politics and activism\, including Shirley Chisholm\, Hillary Clinton\, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, and more. \nBeginning with a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson and closing with Rev. Sharpton’s moving eulogy for George Floyd\, Rise Up offers timeless lessons for anyone who’s stood at the crossroads of their personal or political life\, weighing their choices of how to proceed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reverend-al-sharpton-rise-up-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200904T210637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200904T210637Z
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SUMMARY:Zoetrope Magazine Fall Issue Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates the award winning literary periodical’s fall issue. Editor Michael Ray and Managing Editor Manjula Martin are joined by several contributors in an afternoon of readings and celebration. \n \n—— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase the journal (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n\nFounded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997\, Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly print magazine of short fiction\, one-act plays\, and essays on film. Among the most celebrated literary periodicals in the world\, it has won every major story award\, including four National Magazine Awards for Fiction\, along with a number of design commendations. The magazine’s contributors comprise the most promising and significant writers of our era: Mary Gaitskill\, Colum McCann\, Rachel Cusk\, Jim Shepard\, Elena Ferrante\, Daniel Alarcón\, Karen Russell\, Yiyun Li\, Jonathan Lethem\, Wes Anderson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Mamet\, Ha Jin\, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Margaret Atwood\, Pedro Almodóvar\, Ethan Coen\, Yoko Ogawa\, Charles D’Ambrosio\, Neil Jordan\, Haruki Murakami\, and many more. \nZoetrope: All-Story is also an art magazine—the editors invite a different artist to design each edition in its entirety. Past guest designers include David Lynch\, Zaha Hadid\, William Eggleston\, Agnès Varda\, Kara Walker\, David Bowie\, Ed Ruscha\, Iggy Pop\, Guillermo del Toro\, Abbas Kiarostami\, Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte\, PJ Harvey\, Elizabeth Peyton\, Gus Van Sant\, Tom Waits\, Laurie Anderson\, Julian Schnabel\, Mary Ellen Mark\, David Byrne\, Helmut Newton\, Lou Reed\, and John Baldessari\, among others. \nThe magazine is published quarterly in March\, June\, September\, and December and printed in California by Community Printers\, Inc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoetrope-magazine-fall-issue-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200915T233052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T233112Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mendelsohn Acclaimed writer discusses his new book\, Three Rings\, with local Chris Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Mendelsohn is joined in conversation by Chris Jennings to discuss his latest book\, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile\, Narrative\, and Fate (University of Virginia Press). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. Register here. \nAbout Three Rings\nIn this genre-defying book\, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. \nCombining memoir\, biography\, history\, and literary criticism\, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own–works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach\, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature\, Mimesis\, in Istanbul… Francois Fenelon\, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey\, The Adventures of Telemachus–a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years–resulted in his banishment… and the German novelist W. G. Sebald\, self-exiled to England\, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement\, nostalgia\, and separation from home. \nIntertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggles to write two of his own books–a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father–that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion\, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders\, languages\, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history\, art and life. \nAbout the authors\nDaniel Mendelsohn is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books\, where he is Editor-at-Large. His books include the memoirs An Odyssey: A Father\, a Son\, and an Epic and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million as well as three collections of essays and criticism\, most recently Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones. He teaches literature at Bard College. \nChris Jennings is the author of Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism. He graduated from Deep Springs College and Wesleyan University. He lives in Northern California with his family and dog.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-mendelsohn-acclaimed-writer-discusses-his-new-book-three-rings-with-local-chris-jennings/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201002T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200908T210639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200908T210639Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Yamile Saied Méndez
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 2nd at 6pm PDT\, when Yamile Saied Méndez dicusses her YA debut novel\, Furia\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82109506823 \nWebinar ID: 821 0950 6823 \nAbout Furia \nA powerful\, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina\, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams. \nIn Rosario\, Argentina\, Camila Hassan lives a double life. \nAt home\, she is a careful daughter\, living within her mother’s narrow expectations\, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow\, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. \nOn the field\, she is La Furia\, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament\, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams\, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university. \nBut the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left\, Diego has become an international star\, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now\, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated\, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her. \nFilled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina\, heart-soaring romance\, and breathless action on the pitch\, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own. \nAbout Yamile Saied Méndez \nYamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine American who loves meteor showers\, summer\, astrology\, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids\, two adorable dogs\, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient\, she’s a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Méndez is also part of Las Musas\, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx middle grade and young adult authors. Furia is her first novel for young adult readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-yamile-saied-mendez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201002T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T153738
CREATED:20200927T190001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200927T190001Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #29
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-29-tickets-122775722491; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150. \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. 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 \nNomadic Press is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #28\nTime: Oct 2\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83208913825 \nMeeting ID: 832 0891 3825\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83208913825# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83208913825# 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 (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 832 0891 3825\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kr39Am2nf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-29/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - P. J. O'Rourke (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:P. J. O’Rourke‘s latest work\, A Cry from the Far Middle\, asks his fellow Americans to take it down a notch\, offering a new collection of essays about our nation’s propensity for anger and perplexity. \nP. J. has written twenty books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. He is also an H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute\, a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me\, and editor-in-chief of the web magazine American Consequences. He lives in rural New England\, as far away from the things he writes about as he can get. \nMichael Krasny has been in broadcast journalism since 1983. He was with ABC in both radio and television and migrated to public broadcasting in 1993. He has been Professor of English at San Francisco State University and also taught at Stanford\, the University of San Francisco and the University of California\, as well as in the Fulbright International Institutes. A veteran interviewer for the nationally broadcast City Arts and Lectures\, he is the author of a number of books\, including Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life\, Spiritual Envy\, and Let There Be Laughter\, as well as the twenty-four lecture series Short Story Masterpieces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-p-j-orourke-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Bobbie Ann Mason (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Bobbie Ann Mason‘s new release\, Dear Ann\, is a beautifully crafted and profoundly moving novel which follows a woman as she looks back over her life and her first love. \nHer first short stories were published in The New Yorker\, during the 1980s renaissance of the short story\, when writers such as Raymond Carver\, Ann Beattie\, and Tobias Wolff came to prominence. Her first book of fiction\, Shiloh & Other Stories\, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was nominated for the American Book Award\, the PEN/Faulkner Award\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She received an Arts and Letters Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The title story\, “Shiloh\,” about a disabled trucker whose wife is not used to having him at home\, has been widely anthologized in college textbooks. The couple’s trip to the Civil War battleground of Shiloh began for Mason a recurring preoccupation with the theme of war. \nHer first novel\, In Country\, is taught widely in classes and was made into a Norman Jewison film starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. It is about a teenager whose father died in Vietnam before she was born\, and who is now coming of age\, desperate to know more about him. The Girl in the Blue Beret ventures into World War II and the ways it is remembered. Her memoir\, Clear Springs\, about an American farm family throughout the twentieth century\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her book of linked stories\, Nancy Culpepper\, is inspired by this family\, and she says that while the circumstances are different\, this is the work of fiction most closely identified with her own life and sensibility.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-bobbie-ann-mason-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Barbara Kingsolver - How to Fly (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In this intimate collection\, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers\, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes\, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted\, emotionally rich\, and luminous. \nIn her second poetry collection\, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical\, the spiritual\, and the wild. She begins with “how to” poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful\, married\, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course\, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family\, and making peace (or not) with death\, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. \nClosing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders—birdsong and ghost-flowers\, ruthless ants\, clever shellfish\, coral reefs\, deadly deserts\, and thousand-year-old beech trees—all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves. \nAltogether\, these are poems about transcendence: finding breath and lightness in life and the everyday acts of living. It’s all terribly easy and\, as the title suggests\, not entirely possible. Or at least\, it is never quite finished. \nBarbara Kingsolver is the author of nine bestselling works of fiction\, including the novels\, Flight Behavior\, The Lacuna\, The Poisonwood Bible\, Animal Dreams\, and The Bean Trees\, as well as books of poetry\, essays\, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the enormously influential bestseller Animal\, Vegetable\, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal\, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts\, as well as the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her body of work. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-kingsolver-how-to-fly-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Aarti Namdev Shahani
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, October 5th at 7pm PST when Aarti Namdev Shahani discusses her memoir\, Here We Are\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81346922046\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81346922046#  or +12532158782\,\,81346922046#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 813 4692 2046\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/ktyp7X41Q \nPraise for Here We Are \n“Aarti Shahani’s book is destined to take its place among the finest memoirs written in recent decades—a heartbreaking\, hilarious and tender love letter to the millions of people who have made their way across lands and oceans to try and find a new life in America. This book will take you on a vivid\, almost cinematic journey that is both beautiful and unforgettable.”\n—Guy Raz\, co-creator of How I Built This\, Wow in the World and TED Radio Hour \nIncluded in Library Journal‘s list of Best Books 2019. \n“This timely\, bittersweet immigration story will resonate powerfully with readers.”\n—Publishers Weekly \n“As it chronicles immigrant tragedy and triumph\, this provocative book also reveals the dark underside of the American judicial system and the many pitfalls for people of color within a landscape of white privilege. A candid and moving memoir.”\n—Kirkus \n“A worthy addition to immigration discourse\, this book is a raw and engaging glimpse into the challenges immigrant families face that are either too traumatic or mundane to land on the news.”\n—BookPage \nAbout Here We Are \nHere We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family’s American Dream\, the justice system that took it away\, and the daughter who fought to get it back\, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. \nThe Shahanis came to Queens—from India\, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then\, with the arrival of their green cards\, they thought they’d made it. This is the story of how they did\, and didn’t; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. \nHere We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti\, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan’s most elite prep schools\, and her dad\, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together\, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country\, even within a single family\, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it’s complicated. \nUltimately\, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story\, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they’d become best friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aarti-namdev-shahani/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poised to Soar Helen Macdonald and Camille Dungy discuss Vesper Flights
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Helen Macdonald is joined in conversation by Camille T. Dungy to celebrate the publication of Vesper Flights (Grove). \nThis event is presented in partnership with the Bay Area Book Festival. \nAll ticket sales are being handled by the Book Festival. Please visit their eventbrite page to register. \n \n  \nAbout Vesper Flights\nAnimals don’t exist in order to teach us things\, but that is what they have always done\, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. \nIn Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays\, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. \nMeditating on notions of captivity and freedom\, immigration and flight\, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building\, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary\, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar\, swifts\, mushroom hunting\, migraines\, the strangeness of birds’ nests\, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. \nBy one of this century’s most important and insightful nature writers\, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation\, fascination\, time\, memory\, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us. \nAbout the authors\nHelen Macdonald is a writer\, poet\, illustrator\, historian\, and naturalist who lives in Cambridge\, England. She is also the author of the poetry collection Shaler’s Fish\, and the bestselling memoir\, H is for Hawk. \nCamille T. Dungy is an award-winning poet and editor and professor of creative writing at Colorado State University. She lives with her husband and child in Fort Collins\, Colorado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poised-to-soar-helen-macdonald-and-camille-dungy-discuss-vesper-flights/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mike Jung In Conversation with Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich --VIRTUALLY!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual conversation between Mike Jung and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich as they discuss Jung’s new novel\,The Boys in the Back Row. \nJung will debut his forthcoming music video opus of absurdity\, “Kitten Time\,” announce the winners of his pre-order giveaway\, and possibly even perform a live song. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 6\, 2020 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will take place live on Crowdcast. Pre-registration required. Click here to save your spot! \nThis is a free event\, though we encourage you to purchase a signed copy of the book through our website and / or to make a contribution to support Mrs. Dalloway’s virtual events. Be sure to add your contribution before you “Save your Spot”. Thank you! \nBest friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park\, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol–a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course\, their final adventure together is more than just that–really\, it’s a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship\, and their honest love and support for one another. That’s exactly what we love so much about The Boys in the Back Row it’s an unabashed ode to male friendship\, because love between boys\, platonic or otherwise\, is something to celebrate. And of course\, because this is Mike Jung\, we’ll be celebrating it with hilariously flawed hijinks and geekiness galore! \nMike Jung is the author of  Geeks\, Girls\, and Secret Identities\, Unidentified Suburban Object\, and The Boys in the Back Row\, and contributed to the anthologies Dear Teen Me\, Break These Rules\, 59 Reasons to Write\, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy\, and The Hero Next Door. His books have been honored by the Bank Street College of Education\, Children’s Book Council Reading Beyond List\, Cooperative Children’s Book Center\, Georgia State Book Awards\, Iowa Children’s Choice Awards\, Kansas State Reading Circle\, National Parenting Publications Awards\, Parents Choice Foundation\, and Texas Bluebonnet Awards. He’s proud to be a founding member of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks team\, and lives in Oakland\, California\, with his family. Find Mike on Facebook\, Twitter\, or at www.mikejung.com. \nOlugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the author of many books including The Two Naomis and the forthcoming It Doesn’t Take a Genius. Her nonfiction includes Someday is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins\, and Saving Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Fight for Our Future. She has contributed to a number of anthologies\, including We Rise\, We Resist\, We Raise Our Voices\, and was the editor of We Need Diverse Books’ The Hero Next Door. She lives with her family in NYC. Find her on Instagram @olugbemisolarhudayperkovich.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-jung-in-conversation-with-olugbemisola-rhuday-perkovich-virtually/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:[Virtual Ruby] Book Launch: A Good True Thai by Sunisa Manning
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and Q&A to celebrate the release of Ruby member Sunisa Manning’s debut novel\, A Good True Thai (Epigram Books\, September 2020)\, hailed by Kirstin Chen\, author of Bury What We Cannot Take\, as “an astounding debut from a talented new voice\,” and a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Sunisa will be in conversation with Ruby member Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods. The poet Monica Sok\, author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On\, will read an invocation to open the event. \nBooks are available for purchase here through East Bay Booksellers. \nAbout the book: \nSet in the 1970s\, A Good True Thai is a historical epic that captures one of the most famous periods of political unrest and artistic openness in Thailand’s history. It follows the story of three young people –Det\, Lek and Chang – whose paths converge at a local university. Det is the descendant of royalty through his mother\, the granddaughter of a king. Influenced by Lek and Chang’s political fervour\, Det radicalises\, and the three of them venture into the Thai jungle to fight alongside the communists. As they are embroiled in the perils of political revolution\, they must learn to tame and reconcile their love for one another. A Good True Thai was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. \nAbout Sunisa: \nSunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American parents. She went to Brown University and now lives in California. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus and other places. She’s been honoured with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge\, and awarded fellowships at San Jose State and the SF Writers Grotto. A Good True Thai is her first novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ruby-book-launch-a-good-true-thai-tickets-119361010997
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ruby-book-launch-a-good-true-thai-by-sunisa-manning/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books present…\nThe Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH\, a novel\, featuring reading\, discussion\, and music by author Robert Duncan\, former editor of Creem magazine\, plus special guest Gary Wilson\, experimental musician and performance artist.\nThe event will be held via livestream to YouTube and Facebook on Tuesday\, October 6\, 7 pm Pacific.\nThe event will be hosted by Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes.\nTune in at the link below\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XQ-hOXqR8 \nAbout Loudmouth \nIn 1970s New York City\, Thomas Ransom dreams that rock ’n’ roll will be his ticket out of the life his conservative family planned for him\, and he takes it to the extreme: burning bridges and houses on the way to discovering his true destiny.\nThomas Ransom\, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City\, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents\, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band\, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\, only to return to New York\, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal\, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter\, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids\, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks\, hippies\, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. \nAbout Robert Duncan \nRobert Duncan is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Era\, an exploration of pop and society in the Seventies\, Kiss\, a satirical biography of the band\, and Only the Good Die Young\, profiles of dead rock stars. He was a writer for Creem\, before becoming\, at 22\, managing editor of the magazine\, working alongside his friend Lester Bangs\, and he has contributed to Rolling Stone\, Circus\, Life\, and dozens of other publications. He is anthologized in the book Springsteen on Springsteen and archived in rocksbackpages.com. He was story consultant\, as well as interview subject and voiceover\, for the 2019 documentary\, Boy Howdy: The Creem Magazine Story and appears in public TV’s Ticket to Write\, a documentary about the “Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.” He has worked as a singer\, songwriter and producer\, and is founder of the 29-year-old ad agency Duncan Channon\, with offices in San Francisco\, LA and Brooklyn. He was born in Sheboygan\, Wisconsin\, but comes from a Southern family\, and grew up mostly in New York. His great-grandfather\, as editor of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal\, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials against the Klan. He currently lives with his wife\, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman\, in Fairfax\, California. Loudmouth is Duncan’s first novel. \nAbout Gary Wilson \nGary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me\, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again\, Gary’s small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck\, who shouts him out in “Where It’s At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)”\, The Roots’ ?uestlove\, Simpsons creator Matt Groening\, and of course\, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf. The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his “disappearance.” His re-emergence in the world coincided with his 2004 release on Stones Throw titled Mary Had Brown Hair.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-duncan-and-gary-wilson-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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