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SUMMARY:Bob Shea To Support Charlie’s Corner
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nAward-winning children’s author Bob Shea will read via video conference from his work. This is the perfect break for parents and children ages 4-8. \nAll proceeds benefit Charlie’s Corner. Buy a gift card right now! \n\nApril 29 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\nNote: You will receive information for the video conference upon registering for the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-shea-to-support-charlies-corner/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T143000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME: \nFriday\, May 1\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \nLOCATION:  \nOnline\nhttps://stmarys-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/vpIodOGgpzsvFenKBZqv9D_MiH5zQ9SndA \nDESCRIPTION: \nTHE TRANSLATED WORLD: CRAFTING GLOBAL POETRY INTO DYNAMIC ENGLISH \nPoet Cyrus Cassells will draw on his experience as a translator of Catalan and Italian literature to discuss the challenges and craft of turning global poetry into dynamic English versions that convey the essence of the originals\, stressing the importance of translation as a vital means of transmitting world history and culture. \nCyrus Cassells is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry and two books translated from the Catalan\, Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas and To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu\, which is forthcoming in 2021. A 2019 Guggenheim fellow\, he has also received a Lannan Literary Award\, a Lambda Literary Award\, two NEA grants\, and a Pushcart Prize. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-cyrus-cassells-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Release of Emerson Whitney's HEAVEN\, with Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:1Emerson Whitney will be reading from Heaven\, followed by a conversation with Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart. Join the conversation and help us celebrate this beautiful book. \nJoin on McSweeney’s Instagram Live this Friday\, May 1st. at 4pm PST/7pm ET for the digital release of Heaven. \nNamed a best book by the AV Club\, PAPER\, Literary Hub\, Refinery29\, Ms. Magazine\, Chicago Review of Books\, the Observer\, and the Seattle Times.\n\nRead an exclusive excerpt from Heaven published by The Paris Review. \nEmerson Whitney writes\, “Really\, I can’t explain myself without making a mess.” What follows is that mess—electrifying\, gorgeous\, defiant. \nAt Heaven’s center\, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother\, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant\, psychedelic prose—all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler\, Donna Haraway\, and C. Riley Snorton—to engage transness and the breathing\, morphing nature of selfhood. \nAn expansive examination of what makes us up\, Heaven wonders what role our childhood plays in who we are. Can we escape the discussion of causality? Is the story of our body just ours? With extraordinary emotional force\, Whitney sways between theory and memory in order to explore these brazen questions and write this unforgettable book. \nOrder the book HERE \nPraise for Heaven“An incisive\, nuanced inquiry into gender and body.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Melodic and engagingly written\, Heaven will enrapture anyone who loves reading for beauty and intellectual challenge at once.”\n—Literary Hub \n“Emerson Whitney’s first prose book is a frank and absorbing examination of transness\, brokenness\, mothering\, femininity\, embodiment and truth.”\n—Ms. Magazine \n“(W)hat Heaven does best is capture the disorienting pull of unsettling childhood memories—at once incomplete and terribly weighted.”\n—AV Club \nOne of the Observer’s Best Books of Spring \n“Heaven is an unflinching personal examination of family and identity\, bearing witness to what it means to live life on one’s own terms.”\n—Foreword Reviews \n“A gripping memoir whose sentences are akin to a skipped heartbeat”\n—PAPER \n“(U)tterly hypnotic… a gorgeous book that feels like a painting”\n—The Seattle Times \n“Whitney weaves (the) various strands into a powerful\, ground-breaking account of growing up and figuring out one’s relationship to oneself and the world.”\n—Book Riot \n“Heaven delves into deep memory and deep thinking to offer an ‘account of oneself’ that questions\, if not upends\, the very idea of such a thing at every turn. The result is a poetic\, candid\, probing reckoning with childhood\, the maternal\, gender\, and the possibilities of theory which will both speak to its time and outlast it.”\n—Maggie Nelson\, author Bluets and The Argonauts \n“Emerson has written a story about Mommy and me but mainly they’re extending to us a forceful act of writing in defense of the self that is taking pictures\, running away—eyes full of tears\, then pirouetting\, and standing their ground to tell us this colossally wonderful and woefully broken story”\n—Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls and I Must Be Living Twice \n“Heaven is the book of deepest affections\, a harrowing book\, a bewitched book. Composed in a style of a bird-nest\, Heaven weaves together multiple threads of conversation with self and with brilliant voices of others\, as different as Lacan and Jos Charles\, Allen Ginsberg and Michael Ondaatje. One can’t help but be moved by this compelling record\, this book of hours for pain made utterly beautiful by its author’s patient meditation on childhood and gender\, motherhood and sorrow.”\n—Ilya Kaminksy\, author of Deaf Republic \n“Heaven goes down like a strong elixir… I can still feel its heat swirling through me.”\n—Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“Heaven\, although prose\, is poetry. The language is tender and present. The word performs connection and recovery… Theory from such thinkers as Butler\, Foucault\, Freud\, Haraway\, Irigaray\, and Lacan are broken down to its lived practical parts and brought back into common parlance\, brought in relation to the etymology that is Whitney’s becoming.”\n—Arisa White\, author of You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened \n“Elegantly poetic\, beautiful\, brutal\, and wise… Heaven is a wonder.”\n—Michelle Tea\, author of Valencia and Modern Tarot \n“Someone asked me recently if I ever imagine writing from today that has the strength to remain in print centuries from now. ‘Yes\, I do\,’ I said\, and told them about a book by Emerson Whitney called Heaven. Every page is beautifully written\, pitch-perfect harrowing\, but maybe more important is how it changes many things we thought we understood about life. Hundreds of years from now\, readers can better appreciate this time and this nation through Emerson Whitney’s extraordinary lens\, where they write\, ‘The history of categorization around disability in the United States was always about social control.’”\n—CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Exploring and exploding gender\, language\, desire\, this book is necessary reading for anyone who’s used language\, who has had a mother\, who has a body at all.”\n—Sam Sax\, author of Madness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-of-emerson-whitneys-heaven-with-melissa-febos/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ignatian Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Great news! Not only will the Ignatian still be hosting a release party for this year’s issue\, but it will be a virtual event so that contributors and readers from all over the world can participate! Save the date for May 1 at 5 pm PST and keep your eyes peeled for the Zoom link to come! If you have any questions\, feel free to dm us. We hope to “see” you all there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ignatian-release-party/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #6 with Chuck Atkinson\, Barbara Bloom\, Dane Cervine
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #6 with Chuck Atkinson\, Barbara Bloom\, Dane Cervine part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.  \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-6-with-chuck-atkinson-barbara-bloom-dane-cervine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #7
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nAll forms of your support matter. One of those forms is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If you can swing it in these tough 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-2-tickets-100581457848;\nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \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! \nSIGN-UP SHEET:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #7\nTime: May 1\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84688309997 \nMeeting ID: 846 8830 9997\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,84688309997# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84688309997# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 846 8830 9997\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kl5oWFfom
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-7/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T190000
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SUMMARY:Vote At Home with Amber McReynolds and Jesse Wegman
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Ian Haney Lopez\nProgram will air Friday May 1st\, 7:00 PM PST \nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut \nAs highlighted by urgent op-eds and leading journalists\, the November 2020 election will be disrupted\, perhaps severely\, by the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s a secure and well-studied solution available: voting by mail\, which promises to protect public health and the integrity of our democracy. What are the pathways to making vote-by-mail widely available? What are the challenges? Who implements this kind of policy change\, and where? And\, with the most consequential election of our lifetimes less than six months away\, how can citizens organize to push for this bipartisan mandate and actually get results within an urgent timeframe? \nJesse Wegman has written about the Supreme Court and legal affairs for the New York Times editorial board since 2013\, and his book Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College was praised by National Book Award winner and MacArthur fellow Annette Gordon-Reed as a “timely and erudite work that should interest all who are interested in the future of the United States.” He’s joined by Amber McReynolds\, CEO for the National Vote At Home Institute and Coalition and co-author of When Women Vote. These nationally recognized experts on voting rights\, the Constitution\, and electoral law engage in a spirited and forward-looking conversation moderated by Ian Haney Lopez\, author of Merge Left\, which astutely examines the role of coded racism in contemporary political campaigns. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Guy and Jeanine Saperstein\, and Mal Warwick Donordigital. \nRecommended Reading\nAmber McReynolds\, When Women Vote\nJesse Wegman\, et the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College.\nIan Haney Lopez\, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vote-at-home-with-amber-mcreynolds-and-jesse-wegman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Adam Levin: Bubblegum
DESCRIPTION:Adam Levin discusses his new novel Bubblegum. \nPraise for Bubblegum \n“Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest\, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness – an irrepressible and insanely entertaining examination of our obsessive culture that doesn’t forget to be fond of that which it is satirizing. Levin’s keen and ornery mind\, reveling in the world with vast energy\, shows us new ways of loving it.”George Saunders\, author of the Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo  \n“Adam Levin’s brilliant\, inventive\, fully imagined alternative world gives us insight and clarity about the actual world we live in.  We are implicated\, warned\, but what a hilarious ride. Bubblegum is a wild\, ambitious\, and original novel.  Levin is a wonder.”Dana Spiotta\, author of Eat the Document \n“With Bubblegum\, Adam Levin has created a cubist painting about consumerism\, fetishization\, and the increasingly blurred line between life and advertisement in a hyper-materialist\, post-IRL society. Levin masterfully creates a world without the internet to examine the impact and insanity it has sewn into the American project\, and he does so while gleefully skewering our unraveling vernacular. A freaky marvel of a tome.”Catherine Lacey\, author of Certain American States\, The Answers and Nobody is Ever Missing \nAbout Bubblegum \nBubblegum is set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist\, and has never existed. Rather\, a wholly different species of interactive technology–a “flesh-and-bone robot” called the Curio–has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet\, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio\, is now writing his memoir\, and through it we follow a singular man out of sync with the harsh realities of a world he feels alien to\, but must find a way to live in.\nAt age thirty-eight\, still living at home with his widowed father\, Belt insulates himself from the awful and terrifying world outside by spending most of his time with books\, his beloved Curio\, and the voices in his head\, which he isn’t entirely sure are in his head. After Belt’s father goes on a fishing excursion\, a simple trip to the bank escalates into an epic saga that eventually forces Belt to confront the world he fears\, as well as his estranged childhood friend Jonboat\, the celebrity astronaut and billionaire.\nIn Bubblegum\, Adam Levin has crafted a profoundly hilarious\, resonant\, and monumental narrative about heartbreak\, longing\, art\, and the search for belonging in an incompatible world. Bubblegum is a rare masterwork of provocative social (and self-) awareness and intimate emotional power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-levin-bubblegum/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Segue: Steven Seidenberg & Darcie Dennigan
DESCRIPTION:This Saturday! A reading that shall knock the very hills into the sea\, by Darcie Dennigan & Steven Seidenberg! \nDarcie Dennigan is a poet & playwright in Providence\, RI who explores otherworldliness & female absurdists. Her books include Slater Orchard (FC2)\, The Parking Lot and Other Feral Scenarios (Fofklift)\, & Madame X (Canarium). \nSteven Seidenberg is the author of plain sight (Roof Books)\, Situ (Black Sun Lit)\, Null Set (Spooky Actions Books)\, & Itch (RAW ArT Press). His collections of photographs include Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press) & Imaging Failure: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South (Contrasto). \nThe link to join is https://zoom.us/j/378232567.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/segue-steven-seidenberg-darcie-dennigan/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T150000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-12/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T183000
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SUMMARY:Livestream Reading--Donald Revell\, Joseph Lease\, David Blair
DESCRIPTION:Livestream reading via ZOOM/Facebook–Donald Revell\, Joseph Lease\, David Blair\, reading from Nevada\, California & Massachusetts. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/LitBalm/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/livestream-reading-donald-revell-joseph-lease-david-blair/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T193000
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SUMMARY:Two-Way Mirror reading: Relic by Elizabeth Costello
DESCRIPTION:Join Two-Way Mirror Books for pre-release online event celebrating RELIC\, the new chapbook by Elizabeth Costello\n\nwith:\nMarina Lazzara\nJess Rowland\nStephanie Baker\nAva Koohbor\nMary Peelen\nElizabeth Costello\n\n\nTime: Saturday\, May 2\, 2020 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\, 9:30 ET\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88087081525?pwd=MSt1V2M4TUpUb3NKWXhXSVFadFh3UT09\n\nMeeting ID: 880 8708 1525\nPassword: 129348\n\nPLEASE NOTE THERE IS A PASSWORD!!\n\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,88087081525#\,\,#\,129348# US (San Jose)\n+14086380968\,\,88087081525#\,\,#\,129348# US (San Jose)\n\nDial by your location\n        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n        +1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n        +1 646 876 9923 US (New York)\n        +1 253 215 8782 US\n        +1 301 715 8592 US\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 880 8708 1525\nPassword: 129348\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kecZgzUfQF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-way-mirror-reading-relic-by-elizabeth-costello/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T190000
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SUMMARY:OFFSITE: An Evening with Mikel Jollett / Hollywood Park
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Quiet Lightningpresent The Airborne Toxic Event’s Mikel Jollett for his only San Francisco/Bay Area. He will be reading from and discussing his memoir\, Hollywood Park. \n \nPlease note: This ticketed event will be held at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco: 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94109. Tickets can be purchased in advance here and are not guaranteed to be available at the door. Please read the ticketing information carefully and direct any questions to events@booksmith.com. \n\nWe were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts\, visiting us for a morning\, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds\, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they’d disappear again\, for weeks\, for months\, for years\, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams\, our questions and confusion … \nSo begins Hollywood Park\, Mikel Jollett’s remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California\, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon\, one of the country’s most infamous and dangerous cults.  Per the leader’s mandate\, all children\, including Jollett and his older brother\, were separated from their parents when they were six months old\, and handed over to the cult’s “School.”  After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage\, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother.  But in many ways\, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. \nIn his raw\, poetic and powerful voice\, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty\, trauma\, emotional abuse\, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol.  Raised by a clinically depressed\, narcissistic mother\, tormented by his angry older brother\, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father\, a former heroin addict and ex-con\, Jollett slowly\, often painfully\, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and\, eventually\, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. \nHollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child\, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett’s story is filled with heartbreak\, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal. \n\nMikel Jollett is the frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event. Prior to forming the band\, Jollett graduated with honors from Stanford University. He was an on-air columnist for NPR’s All Things Considered\, an editor-at-large for Men’s Health and an editor at Filter magazine. His fiction has been published in McSweeney’s.  \n\nThis event is held at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco: 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94109. \nDoors at 6:30pm. Program at 7:30. Program includes signing. Duration of event is up to the author. \nImportant signing and photo details to come. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have any special needs\, please write to events@booksmith.com no later than 48 hours before the event and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of Hollywoord Park\, order below and add your request in the special field. \nRSVP is not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-an-evening-with-mikel-jollett-hollywood-park/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Mikel Jollett / Hollywood Park
DESCRIPTION:Join Mikel Jollett on his Hollywoord Park book tour: an exclusive\, online event series. Mikel will discuss his remarkable life story\, perform exclusive material from the new album\, Hollywood Park\, and have a Q&A with the audience. Tickets will support your local indie bookstore and include a signed copy of the book. Private links will be emailed the day of the event. \n \nAll tickets include one single-use login and one copy of Hollywood Park to be received via direct mail in late May. We will be emailing you for your shipping address once you buy your ticket. \n\nWe were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts\, visiting us for a morning\, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds\, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they’d disappear again\, for weeks\, for months\, for years\, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams\, our questions and confusion … \nSo begins Hollywood Park\, Mikel Jollett’s remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California\, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon\, one of the country’s most infamous and dangerous cults.  Per the leader’s mandate\, all children\, including Jollett and his older brother\, were separated from their parents when they were six months old\, and handed over to the cult’s “School.”  After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage\, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother.  But in many ways\, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. \nIn his raw\, poetic and powerful voice\, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty\, trauma\, emotional abuse\, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol.  Raised by a clinically depressed\, narcissistic mother\, tormented by his angry older brother\, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father\, a former heroin addict and ex-con\, Jollett slowly\, often painfully\, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and\, eventually\, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. \nHollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child\, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett’s story is filled with heartbreak\, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal. \n\nMikel Jollett is the frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event. Prior to forming the band\, Jollett graduated with honors from Stanford University. He was an on-air columnist for NPR’s All Things Considered\, an editor-at-large for Men’s Health and an editor at Filter magazine. His fiction has been published in McSweeney’s.  \n\nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nRSVP is not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-an-evening-with-mikel-jollett-hollywood-park/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Coming Together When Things Fall Apart: Giving Voice to Emotional Truth in our Times
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Anthony Doerr\, Pulitzer Prize winning author of All the Light We Cannot See and The Shell Collector; R.O. Kwon\, bestselling author of The Incendiaries; and Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees. Moderated by Danielle Evans\, Hurston-Wright Award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and the forthcoming The Office of Historical Corrections \nLive conversation with audience engagement\nTICKETED EVENT (fundraiser) — VERY LIMITED SPACE!\nSaturday May 2nd\, 7:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nGet your tickets to this special event\n\n\n\n\nThis event is for everyone who’s ever been moved by a writer’s uncanny gift for describing the indescribable: a gift that makes us feel seen and understood in all our complexity. It’s a gift we need now\, more than ever. A novelist’s stock in trade is plumbing the emotional landscape of characters experiencing freefall\, upheaval\, uncertainty—just as all of us are experiencing\, in some measure\, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. When the overwhelming emotions of this current moment render us speechless\, who better to break the silence and put words to complicated feelings than some of contemporary literature’s most groundbreaking\, humane\, and breathtaking voices? \nAcclaimed novelist R.O. Kwon’s transcendent New York Times essay about grief in lockdown was the inspiration for this conversation. Joining her are Anthony Doerr\, whose blockbuster World War II novel All the Light We Cannot See illuminates the ways\, against all odds\, people try to be good to one another; and Viet Thanh Nguyen\, whose witty\, exquisite The Sympathizer captures the ambivalence and humanity of “a man of two minds” in the midst of a traumatic war. Moderated by award-winning author Danielle Evans\, who recently penned a beautiful essay about sheltering-in-place for The Sewanee Review’s “Corona Correspondences” series. \nThis ticketed live event\, a fundraiser for the Bay Area Book Festival\, will take us beyond the headlines and tweets into a raw\, cathartic conversation about navigating lockdown\, loss\, and massive change. In the midst of this strange time\, an hour of deep connection can bring hope and courage to us all. . \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Doerr\, All the Light We Cannot See\nR.O. Kwon\, The Incendiaries\nViet Thanh Nguyen\, The Sympathizer\nDanielle Evans\, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/coming-together-when-things-fall-apart-giving-voice-to-emotional-truth-in-our-times/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T203000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Mikel Jollett / Hollywood Park
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Quiet Lightning present The Airborne Toxic Event’s Mikel Jollett for his only San Francisco/Bay Area. He will be reading from and discussing his memoir\, Hollywood Park. \nPlease note: This ticketed event will be held at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco: 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94109. Tickets can be purchased in advance here and are not guaranteed to be available at the door. Please read the ticketing information carefully and direct any questions to events AT booksmith DOT com. \nWe were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts\, visiting us for a morning\, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds\, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they’d disappear again\, for weeks\, for months\, for years\, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams\, our questions and confusion … \nSo begins Hollywood Park\, Mikel Jollett’s remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California\, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon\, one of the country’s most infamous and dangerous cults.  Per the leader’s mandate\, all children\, including Jollett and his older brother\, were separated from their parents when they were six months old\, and handed over to the cult’s “School.”  After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage\, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother.  But in many ways\, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. \nIn his raw\, poetic and powerful voice\, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty\, trauma\, emotional abuse\, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol.  Raised by a clinically depressed\, narcissistic mother\, tormented by his angry older brother\, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father\, a former heroin addict and ex-con\, Jollett slowly\, often painfully\, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and\, eventually\, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. \nHollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child\, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett’s story is filled with heartbreak\, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal. \n\nMikel Jollett is the frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event. Prior to forming the band\, Jollett graduated with honors from Stanford University. He was an on-air columnist for NPR’s All Things Considered\, an editor-at-large for Men’s Health and an editor at Filter magazine. His fiction has been published in McSweeney’s. \n\nThis event is held at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco: 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94109. \nDoors at 6:30pm. Program at 7:30. Program includes signing. Duration of event is up to the author. \nImportant signing and photo details to come. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have any special needs\, please write to events@booksmith.com no later than 48 hours before the event and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of Hollywoord Park\, order below and add your request in the special field. \nRSVP is not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-mikel-jollett-hollywood-park/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:My Shadow is My Skin virtual book reading
DESCRIPTION:My Shadow is My Skin (University of Texas Press) is a new nonfiction anthology exploring the meaning of being Iranian-American. The collection brings together thirty-two authors\, both established and emerging\, whose writing captures the diversity of of Iranian diasporic experiences. Six contributors (Mandana Chaffa\, Leila Emery\, Katherine Whitney\, Dena Rod\, Shideh Etaat\, and Siamak Vossoughi) will be sharing work from their pieces as part of an online reading at 10 am PST/12 noon CST on Sunday\, May 3rd. The authors welcome all listeners interested in taking part in this effort to tell our own stories with the hope of better understanding our place in the world.\nZoom link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/827869707
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-shadow-is-my-skin-virtual-book-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132706
CREATED:20200427T195704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200427T195704Z
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SUMMARY:PCSJ Appreciation Party
DESCRIPTION:A special on-line reading featuring Connie Post and Kelly Grace Thomas\nopen mic to follow!\nREGISTER HERE FOR LINK (Free) \nThis is a special event featured every Spring to bring together and thank Poetry Center San Jose members\, friends\, partners and general community for the continued support of PCSJ. Join us via Zoom. Tickets are free. Zoom registration will be emailed to all registrants. Sign-up for the open mic is first come\, first served.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pcsj-appreciation-party/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132706
CREATED:20200424T211226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200424T211237Z
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SUMMARY:Write Now! SF Bay Presents: “Stand Up and Be Counted”
DESCRIPTION:.Interactive reading on Creativity and Activism by 30 Bay Area writers of color and allies. Health care providers\, educators\, and community activists will share prose and poetry on how they are responding to COVID-19. Following the reading\, the audience can join a guided discussion. For Zoom link\, register by clicking on “Find tickets” at this page: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/161388931713355/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-now-sf-bay-presents-stand-up-and-be-counted/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Write Now SF Bay":MAILTO:writenowsf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T180000
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CREATED:20200427T194430Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon goes virtual!\nSunday\, May 3rd\, 6:00 p.m.\nReadings by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain\, Jennifer Lewis\, and Kendra Tanacea\nHosted by Peter Kline \n\nFull details coming soon – please stay tuned!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-bazaar-writers-salon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132706
CREATED:20200430T202540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T202540Z
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SUMMARY:Shedding Light\, Vanquishing Fear: End-of-Life Planning with the Experts: BJ Miller\, MD\, Katy Butler\, and Shoshana Berger
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Sunita Puri\, MD\nProgram will air Sunday May 3rd\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nIn a time where COVID-19 looms over us all\, difficult conversations about death have become a very real part of life. But from living rooms to hospital rooms\, there’s widespread resistance to delving into this important topic that touches us all. We tend to perceive death as too scary\, too ugly\, too overwhelming to acknowledge—let alone something to approach in a peaceful\, prepared way. In this informative\, enlightening\, and truly comforting discussion\, four remarkable experts show families and individuals how to take a clear-eyed\, compassionate approach to mortality\, one’s own and that of loved ones. These authors shed light on how medical providers and patients alike can reshape the mentality of fear around the process of dying and create a much better experience for all\, one that can be transformative and extremely meaningful. By exercising agency in planning for the “best possible death\,” we can create our best possible life. \nThis revelatory conversation features journalist Shoshana Berger and palliative care physician BJ Miller\, co-authors of A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death\, praised by The Washington Post as “a gentle\, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share.” They are joined by award-winning journalist and bestselling writer Katy Butler\, author of two groundbreaking books about the end of life: Knocking on Heaven’s Door\, the Path to a Better Way of Death\, and her latest\, The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life\, hailed as “a roadmap to the end” that “combines medical\, practical\, and spiritual guidance” (The Boston Globe). Moderated by Dr. Sunita Puri\, whose memoir That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour is a “profound exploration for what it means for all of us to live—and to die—with dignity and purpose” (People Magazine). Dr. Puri is currently on the frontlines working with COVID-19 patients as the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShoshana Berger and BJ Miller\, A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death\nKaty Butler\, The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life\nSunita Puri\, MD\, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shedding-light-vanquishing-fear-end-of-life-planning-with-the-experts-bj-miller-md-katy-butler-and-shoshana-berger/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T203000
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SUMMARY:Ainissa Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nThe Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another \nfrom The MIT Press \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials\, the innovations they made possible\, and how these technologies changed us. \nIn The Alchemy of Us\, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks\, steel rails\, copper communication cables\, photographic film\, light bulbs\, hard disks\, scientific labware\, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time\, the inventor who inspired Edison\, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes\, among other things\, how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway’s writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid’s cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. \nRamirez shows how materials were shaped by inventors\, but also how those materials shaped culture\, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology\, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking\, bias\, and convention. Doing so\, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it’s splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR. \nAinissa Ramirez is a materials scientist and sought-after public speaker and science communicator. A Brown and Stanford graduate\, she has worked as a research scientist at Bell Labs and held academic positions at Yale University and MIT. She has written for Time\, Scientific American\, the American Scientist\, and Forbes\, and makes regular appearances on PBS’s SciTech Now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ainissa-ramirez/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Escape From Quarantine Reading - a weekly online thing
DESCRIPTION:a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. \njoin our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a space to just talk about what’s going on and how we feel about it and also share our work. \nTopic: escape from quarantine reading\nTime: Mar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Mon\, until May 4\, 2020\, 7 occurrence(s)\nMar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMar 30\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 6\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 13\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 27\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMay 4\, 2020 07:00 PM \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/293972268 \nMeeting ID: 293 972 268 \nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,293972268# US (Houston)\n+17207072699\,\,293972268# US (Denver) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 293 972 268\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/ftXvyehuU
URL:https://litseen.com/event/escape-from-quarantine-reading-a-weekly-online-thing-7/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T203000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Quiet Lightning!
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Quiet Lightning\, Monday May 4\, 2020\nWe’ll be streaming at this link.\nDoors at 7pm. Readings at 7:15pm. \nOther ways to connect:\nMeeting ID: 878 0959 2323\nOne tap mobile +16699006833\,\,87809592323# US (San Jose) +13462487799\,\,87809592323# US (Houston)\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kct9uk0fdb \nPlease note: we have a capacity of 100 people\, so if you want to make sure you can join\, don’t be late! We’ll be letting people in at 7pm and expect the readings to start at 7:15pm. \nFree and all ages\, with mature content\, featuring: \nRonny Kerr » Joe Donohoe » Keith Mark Gaboury » Jon Bennett » Cynthia Darling » Leigh Lucas » Nick Martino » Sage Curtis » Diana Donovan » Daniel Lucas » Danielle Bero » Allison Landa » Minna Dubin » Jon Bennett » Leigh Lucas » Robyn Carter » Danielle Bero » Benjamin Gucciardi \nAll selected authors will be paid + published in sPARKLE & bLINK 105\, featuring cover art by Livien Yin! \nCurated by Katie Tandy and Lauren Rosenfield \nIf you’d like a copy of the book\, donate $15 or more and we’ll send you this issue plus a surprise back issue directly to your door. As always\, we will post the full text and videos online shortly after the reading. But if you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’ve decided to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are three easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation through Paypal or Venmo | Support us on Patreon \n— \n\nFeatured image: Bedroom by Livien Yin | http://livienyin.com\n2015\, gouache on paper\, 16″ x 12″
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-quiet-lightning/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh\, Death in Her Hands at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home. \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nOttessa Moshfegh is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, a New York Times bestseller; Homesick for Another World\, a New York Times Book Review notable book of the year; Eileen\, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; and McGlue\, which won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her stories have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Noir
DESCRIPTION:Editors (and Moe’s workers) Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill introduce the contributors to Akashic’s latest city noir anthology. Celebrate Berkeley on Telegraph Avenue! \nBerkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir\, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir. \nAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories\, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. \nBrand-new stories by: Barry Gifford\, Jim Nisbet\, Lexi Pandell\, Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Mara Faye Lethem\, Thomas Burchfield\, Shanthi Sekaran\, Nick Mamatas\, Kimn Neilson\, Jason S. Ridler\, Susan Dunlap\, J.M. Curet\, Summer Brenner\, Michael David Lukas\, Aya de León\, and Owen Hill. \nJerry Thompson is a bookseller\, poet\, playwright\, and musician. His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA and the James White Review. He is the coauthor of Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland. His fiction and prose have appeared in various anthologies including Voices Rising\, edited by G. Winston James\, and Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing\, edited by E. Lynn Harris. He is the coeditor of both Oakland Noir \nOwen Hill is the author of two crime novels\, The Chandler Apartments and The Incredible Double\, and he coedited The Annotated Big Sleep with Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto. Until recently he lived in the Chandler Building on the corner of Telegraph and Dwight in Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-noir/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Queens of Mystery: Writer to Writer with Meg Gardiner and Rachel Howzell Hall
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Laurie King\nProgram will air Tuesday May 5th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegistration (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\n“Suspense is like a woman\,” said Hitchcock. “The more left to the imagination\, the more the excitement.” Well\, these two women are coming for Hitchcock’s crown with some of the most spine-tingling\, sophisticated thrillers being written today. Meg Gardiner\, bestselling novelist and president of Mystery Writers of America\, was fittingly called “Hitchcockian” by USA Today. She specializes in heroines with big brains\, from FBI agents to forensic psychiatrists to firecracker journalists (Stephen King called her Evan Delaney novels “the finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years”). And Rachel Howzell Hall\, author of the Detective Elouise Norton series\, has created an unforgettable protagonist described by The New York Times as “someone you want on your side.” Hall’s newest\, which ABC News calls her “breakout novel\,” is They all Fall Down\, a wickedly clever mystery set on a pristine—and deadly—island paradise in Mexico. \nListen to these two leading ladies of suspense as they crack the case of how to make readers stay up all night. Moderated by Laurie King\, an Edgar Award-winning author of detective fiction and President of the Northern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeg Gardiner\, The Dark Corners of the Night\nRachel Howzell Hall\, They All Fall Down\nLaurie King\, Beginnings \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queens-of-mystery-writer-to-writer-with-meg-gardiner-and-rachel-howzell-hall/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz in conversation with Paul Yamazaki
DESCRIPTION:Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \n\n\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \nPaul Yamazaki is the chief book buyer at City Lights Booksellers and has been a life-long booktrade advocate serving on many boards of non-profits and literary organizations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz-in-conversation-with-paul-yamazaki/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel Death in Her Hands. \nPraise for Death in Her Hands \n“When it comes to evoking the jagged edge of contemporary anxiety there might not be a more insightful writer working today than Moshfegh. That is if the boundless dark potential of the human psyche is your thing. If it’s not\, this atmospheric\, darkly comic tale of a pathologically lonely widow and the thrills lurking in her sylvan retreat might not be for you. But\, sophisticated reader that you are\, you’re not afraid of the dark. Right?” —The Millions \n“Perhaps the most jarring genre of fiction is the kind that takes you deep into the gradual unraveling of a person’s mind. Moshfegh does a masterful job with Death In Her Hands\, which follows a protagonist who believes she’s solving a murder. The book moves seamlessly from suspenseful to horrifying\, retaining the reader’s attention all the while.” —Marie Claire \n“Ottessa Moshfegh is always a must-read\, and her latest combines ‘horror\, suspense and pitch-black comedy’ to deliver a fascinating tale guided by an unreliable narrator.” —Paste\, 25 Most Anticipated Novels of 2020 \nAbout Death in Her Hands \nFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:V. E. Schwab\, Maggie Tokuda-Hall And Charlie Jane Anders For Books Inc.
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will be a discussion between Charlie Jane Anders\, V. E. Schwab\, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall (for whom this is also a launch party). \nAll proceeds benefit Books Inc. Buy a gift card right now! \n\nMay 6 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/v-e-schwab-maggie-tokuda-hall-and-charlie-jane-anders-for-books-inc/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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