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SUMMARY:Santa Clara University Osher: Exciting Adult Learning Zoom Classes
DESCRIPTION:Fall Quarter Open Now through December 4th\, 2020 \nOLLI@SCU: Enjoy learning from home with exciting Zoom (virtual) classes taught by instructors who design their varied courses for curious audiences like you. Join and take advantage of our classes\, events\, and programs (currently remote until safe to be in-person) designed for adult learners who love learning. We offer more than 15 thought-provoking courses each quarter\, on a variety of topics including history\, science\, art\, current events\, law\, literature and culture – all without homework\, tests or grades. There are member-only Special Interest Groups exploring such topics as food\, genealogy\, Italy\, mystery books\, memoir writing\, photography and contemporary issues. OLLI@SCU is here for you\, now. Join us! \nMembership is $55; course fees vary from $50 – $110 depending on length. \nPresented by Santa Clara University Osher Lifelong Learning.
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SUMMARY:December Manuscript Intensive Program
DESCRIPTION:Send your book out without the self-doubt. Instead work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape.   In this month-long one-on-one intensive\, an experienced published author will closely read your entire book and mentor you\, giving focused editorial feedback on the first 25 pages and an editorial letter to guide revision of the rest. \n\nThere will be significant opportunity for extended correspondence with your mentor\, who will provide specific suggestions for revision and offer general advice on the current state of publishing\, and next steps for you to take in your publishing journey. Work with us before sending out your manuscript to help your book really shine! \nHow it works:\n\nThe San Francisco Creative Writing Institute Manuscript Intensive is a four-week\, one-on-one mentorship with a published writer to get help with your completed prose manuscript (novel\, memoir or other non-fiction\, essay or story collection) and receive valuable feedback for revision or submission to agents or publishers.\n\nIf you have a completed manuscript and want to know what the next steps to take are\, this is the course for you.\n\n\n\n\nNext Steps:\nAfter you register\, you’ll email the manuscript to us at mentor@sfwriting.institute along with tendering a retainer fee. \n\nWe will look at your manuscript and assign you one of our mentors based on your work and their specialties. Read up on our list of mentors here.\n\n\n\n\nWeekly Schedule: December 01\, 2020 – December 31\, 2020\, All Day\nWeek 1 – Your mentor will spend the first week of the month reading your entire book. \n\nWeek 2 – In the second week you will receive an editorial mark-up of the first chapter or first 25 pages (whichever is most appropriate) and an editorial letter oriented toward revision.\n\nWeek 3 – In the third week\, you can initiate an email conversation about the edits and feedback\, and even offer a revision of the first pages for a “second look.”\n\nWeek 4 – In the final week\, your mentor will respond to your commentary and any possible revisions to the opening pages and offer final guidance for revision or submission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-manuscript-intensive-program/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Best Kids Books of the Year Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Join Bookshop’s interim head Children’s buyer as she shares Bookshop’s picks for the Best Kids Books of the Year! From picture books to middle grade\, graphic novels to young adult\, there were so many fantastic books for young readers published in 2020. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nSee the books we are presenting here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-best-kids-books-of-the-year-presentation/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sabaa Tahir with J. Elle
DESCRIPTION:Fans of Sabaa Tahir’s beloved New York Times bestselling Ember Quartet rejoice – the wait is almost over. \nWe are launching Sabaa’s highly anticipated jaw dropping finale to the series\, A Sky Beyond the Storm and we couldn’t be more excited to discover: Who will survive the storm? \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMTV.com described this series as “A setting inspired by ancient Rome; a fierce battle for freedom in the face of tyranny; and a villain who makes Cersei Lannister and Dolores Umbridge look like a pair of pathetic amateurs.” We’ve been obsessed with this spectacular series since launching it in 2015. Will our favorite characters survive? \nSabaa will be chatting about all things Ember with debut author J. Elle (Wings of Ebony will be published in Feb 2021). There will be Ember trivia\, audience Q&A\, and an opportunity after the event for a virtual\, live\, 1-on-1 1-minute conversation with Sabaa Tahir for up to 48 lucky fans. \nDoesn’t get better than this!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sabaa-tahir-with-j-elle/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Headlands Center for the Arts / Ari Banias\, Vincent Chu\, Tomas Moniz\, Shelley Wong & Hazel White
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to partner with the Headlands Center for the Arts to present an evening of readings by Ari Banias\, Vincent Chu\, Tomas Moniz\, Shelley Wong & Hazel White\, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF ’16–’19). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to all who register. \nAri Banias is a poet\, and the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016) and the forthcoming A Symmetry (W. W. Norton\, 2021). His recent poems appear or are forthcoming in bæst\, Hyperallergic\, Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, and The New Republic. Ari lives in Oakland. \nTomas Moniz’s debut novel\, Big Familia\, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway\, the LAMBDA\, and the Foreward Indies Awards. He edited the popular Rad Dad and Rad Families anthologies. He’s the recipient of the prestigious SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award and the 2020 Artist Affiliate for Headlands Center for Arts. Among the residencies he’s attended\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency\, the 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm and others. He teaches creative writing at Berkeley City College\, Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen\, and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. \nShelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books\, 2022)\, winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize\, and the chapbook RARE BIRDS (Diode Editions). She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from MacDowell\, Kundiman\, and Vermont Studio Center. \nHazel White Hazel White is the author of Vigilance Is No Orchard (Nightboat 2018)\, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series\, Fence Ottoline Prize\, and California Book Award. She was one of the winners of a 1-minute monologue competition\, in Tony Labat’s public art project at SFMOMA. Her monologue was titled I Want You to End Racism. She’s writing now about violence. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion (7.13 Books). His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine and elsewhere. He is a Headlands Center for the Arts Affiliate Artist\, Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. \nHeadlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary\, international arts center occupying a cluster of artist-rehabilitated military buildings at historic Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands\, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Headlands provides an unparalleled environment in support of the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through a range of programs for artists and the public\, we offer opportunities for reflection\, dialogue\, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. Photo of the Headlands by Andria Lo. \nBooksmith is an an off-center general interest independent bookstore and legacy business\, a flagship of San Francisco’s Haight Street since 1976. Booksmith is the force behind The Bindery\, a multi-purpose events parlor established in 2017 that features The Arcana Project: a deep\, highly inclusive array of books—fiction and nonfiction\, from all over the world—presented in chronological order by the date they were written. Booksmith also organizes Berkeley Arts & Letters\, an East Bay speaker series since 2009 that features exceptional authors with new books. Between the three programs\, Booksmith produces over 250 events per year. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-headlands-center-for-the-arts-ari-banias-vincent-chu-tomas-moniz-shelley-wong-hazel-white/
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SUMMARY:Digging Deep: A Generative Writing Workshop with Lee Romer Kaplan
DESCRIPTION:We’re beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom\, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said\, “Ahhh.” That was the first poem. \n–Lucille Clifton \nIn this time of social distancing and pandemic\, this three-session remote workshop is designed to bypass constriction and limitation by offering portals into imagery\, language\, and creative expression. Using a variety of prompts\, both individual and collaborative\, we will dig deep and unearth the material of memory\, the raw clay from which to generate new writing\, both poetry and prose\, in our workshop and beyond. \nYour instructor will draw upon Amherst Writers & Artists Method\, journaling\, dream work\, and other practices that center the writer and protect the writer’s voice and vision for the work. Whether you are new to writing or much published\, you will find sustenance here. You will leave this class with new poems or short prose pieces\, and a trove of inspiration for future work. At least two pieces will receive peer feedback in a small group workshop and\, if the student desires feedback from the instructor\, at least one piece will receive oral feedback from her. \nDecember 01 – December 15\n3 Tuesdays\, (PST) 6:30pm – 9:00pm\n\n$153.45 for members\n$165 for non-members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/digging-deep-a-generative-writing-workshop-with-lee-romer-kaplan/
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SUMMARY:Poetry Inside Out Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Inside Out Virtual Workshop\n\nVirtual Event \n\n\n\nWe’ve put together a virtual teacher workshop to help you adapt Poetry Inside Out for distance learning this school year. \nThese three sessions—each 90 minutes—will give you tools and techniques that you can use right away. \nYou’ll get an introduction to Poetry Inside Out and the translation process and tips to guide students through the process—in the classroom or via distance learning. You’ll also learn the key practices of Poetry Inside Out\, get an overview of the lessons and materials available online\, and learn how to create lessons for your in-person or virtual classroom. Workshops will be led by Program Director Mark Hauber and Philadelphia teacher and Philadelphia Writing Project (PhilWP) Fellow Lisa Yao. \nWHEN\nDecember 2\, 3\, and 4\, 3:00-4:30 pm Pacific time / 4:00-5:30 pm Mountain time / 5:00-6:30 pm Central time / 6:00-7:30 pm Eastern time. \nCan’t attend in-person? Sign up anyway to receive a link to the workshop recording. \nThanks to the generous support of our donors the charge for all three workshops is just $45. \n\nRegister: https://www.catranslation.org/event/poetry-inside-out-virtual-workshop/ \n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-inside-out-virtual-workshop/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sherry Smith\, Bohemians West
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, DECEMBER 2\, 2020 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIRTUAL EVENT: Join us online as we welcome distinguished professor of history\, Sherry Smith in conversation with Geoffrey Dunn to talk about Smith’s new book\, Bohemians West: Free Love\, Family\, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century. \nThe opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America\, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood\, two aspiring poets whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time. Self-declared pioneers in free love\, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that charted a new kind of romantic relationship\, and their personal pursuits frequently came into contact with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara’s star rose in the suffrage movement\, culminating in her making a cross-country car trip in 1915 and gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures for a petition to Congress\, she began to ask questions about her own power in her relationship with Erskine. Charting a passionate and tumultuous relationship that spanned decades\, Bohemians West offers a deeply personal look at a dynamic period in American history. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon \n“Sherry Smith is a scholar whose books read like the best fiction\, character-driven page-turners. In Bohemians West\, Smith takes the reader on a journey with two of the most interesting characters we have never heard of\, who were among the thousands of literary figures and activists who were ahead of their time.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States \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! \nSherry L. Smith is University Distinguished Professor of History (Emerita) at Southern Methodist University. She now lives in Moose\, Wyoming and Pasadena\, California with her husband\, Robert W. Righter (also a historian) and their English Setter named Una. A historian of the American West and Native America\, Smith’s other books include Hippies\, Indians and the Fight for Red Power and Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes\, 1880-1940\, both published by Oxford University Press. She is Past President of the Western History Association and received the L.A. Times Distinguished Fellowship at the Huntington Library\, which supported research for Bohemians West. Smith has also been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, The Fulbright Foundation\, and Yale University’s Beinecke Library. \nGeoffrey Dunn is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker with more than three decades experience as an investigative reporter. He is a senior correspondent for Metro Newspapers in California and a regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and Huffington Post. He is the recipient of several national awards for investigative journalism. He is the author of numerous books\, including: The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power\, Santa Cruz Is in the Heart: Volumes I and II; and Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee. He is the recipient of a Gail Rich Award; the Distinguished Historian Award from the History Forum; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chamber of Commerce. He was named Santa Cruz County’s Artist of the Year for 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sherry-smith-bohemians-west/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sherry Smith\, Bohemians West
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us online as we welcome Sherry Smith\, distinguished professor of history\, in conversation with Geoffrey Dunn to talk about Smith’s new book\, Bohemians West: Free Love\, Family\, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America\, a historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century. \nThe opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America\, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood\, whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time\, from the political and artistic circles of Portland\, Oregon to creative connections in Northern California and beyond. Self-declared pioneers in free love\, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that charted a new kind of romantic relationship\, and their personal pursuits frequently came into contact with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara’s star rose in the suffrage movement\, culminating in her making a cross-country car trip in 1915 and gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures for a petition to Congress\, she began to ask questions about her own power in her relationship with Erskine. Wood and Field eventually moved from Portland to San Francisco to be together. In the 1920s they built a personal retreat near Los Gatos where they could pursue their own work and welcome creative friends over the years. Two large sculptures of native bobcats mark the entrance to the estate; a pullout by the statues on Highway 17 includes a historical plaque with additional information. Charting a passionate and tumultuous relationship that spanned decades\, Bohemians West offers a deeply personal look at a dynamic period in American history. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \n“Sherry Smith is a scholar whose books read like the best fiction\, character-driven page-turners. In Bohemians West\, Smith takes the reader on a journey with two of the most interesting characters we have never heard of\, who were among the thousands of literary figures and activists who were ahead of their time.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States \n\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! \nSherry L. Smith is University Distinguished Professor of History (Emerita) at Southern Methodist University. She now lives in Moose\, Wyoming and Pasadena\, California with her husband\, Robert W. Righter (also a historian) and their English Setter named Una. A historian of the American West and Native America\, Smith’s other books include Hippies\, Indians and the Fight for Red Power and Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes\, 1880-1940\, both published by Oxford University Press. She is Past President of the Western History Association and received the L.A. Times Distinguished Fellowship at the Huntington Library\, which supported research for Bohemians West. Smith has also been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, The Fulbright Foundation\, and Yale University’s Beinecke Library. \nGeoffrey Dunn is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker with more than three decades experience as an investigative reporter. He is a senior correspondent for Metro Newspapers in California and a regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and Huffington Post. He is the recipient of several national awards for investigative journalism. He is the author of numerous books\, including: The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power\, Santa Cruz Is in the Heart: Volumes I and II; and Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee. He is the recipient of a Gail Rich Award; the Distinguished Historian Award from the History Forum; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chamber of Commerce. He was named Santa Cruz County’s Artist of the Year for 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sherry-smith-bohemians-west-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Yusef Komunyakaa
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \nYusef Komunyakaa\nYusef Komunyakaa’s books of poetry include Dien Cai Dau\, Neon Vernacular\, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize\, Warhorses\, Emperor of Water Clocks\, and Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth (forthcoming from FSG). His honors include the William Faulkner Prize (Université Rennes\, France)\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, and the 2011 Wallace Stevens Award. His plays\, performance art and libretti have been performed internationally and include Saturnalia\, Wakonda’s Dream\, Testimony\, and Gilgamesh. He teaches at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkley-lunch-poems-yusef-komunyakaa/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad: with Sholeh Wolpé\, Jasmin Darznik\, and Shabnam Piryael
DESCRIPTION:Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad: with Sholeh Wolpé\, Jasmin Darznik\, and Shabnam Piryaei—poetry\, fiction\, film\, and conversation\nThursday\, December 3 – 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm \n\n\n\nRegister to Attend\n—or—\nWatch Live Stream at YouTube \nA late afternoon gathering of poetry\, fiction\, film\, and conversation\, inspired and emboldened by the work and legacy of one of Iran’s outstanding cultural figures of the 20th century\, poet\, filmmaker\, and feminist iconoclast Forugh Farrokhzad (December 29\, 1934–February 13\, 1967). Featuring Sholeh Wolpé\, Jasmin Darznik and Shabnam Piryaei. With emcee Persis Karim\, Neda Nobari Distinguished Chair and director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. \nThis remote access event will begin promptly at 4:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning provided on request (Media Captioning provided after the event); for reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu. \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Co-presented by The Poetry Center and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. \n…With an alien voice\, utterly false\,\none can cry out: I love!\nIn the oppressive arms of a man\none can be a robust\, beautiful female–\nskin like leather tablecloth\,\nbreasts large and hard.\nOne can stain the sinlessness of love\nin the bed of a drunk\, a madman\, a tramp. \nOne can cunningly belittle\nevery perplexing puzzle.\nAlone\, occupy oneself with crosswords\,\ncontent with unimportant words\,\nyes\, unimportant letters\, no more than five or six. \nOne can spend a lifetime kneeling\,\nhead bowed\,\nbefore the cold altar of the Imams\,\nfind God inside an anonymous grave\,\nfaith in a few paltry coins.\nOne can rot inside a mosque’s chamber\,\nan old woman\, prayers dripping from lips. \nWhatever the equation\, one can always be a zero\,\nyielding nothing\, whether added\, subtracted\, or multiplied…. \n—Forugh Farrokhzad\, from “Wind-up Doll\,” tr. Sholeh Wolpé \n\n“Poetic modernism came to Iran as late as the 1960s\, when Farrokhzad streaked across the literary horizon…. Of course\, she became a scandal\, one that endures to this day…. [T]he poems’ long lines and musical repetitions sweep the reader away as effectively as any American projective verse.” —Booklist\, on Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad\, translated by Sholeh Wolpé\n\nSholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-born poet\, writer and playwright. UCLA’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence in 2018\, Wolpé is the recipient of the 2014 PEN/Heim\, 2013 Midwest Book Award\, 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation prize as well as artist fellowships and residencies in the U.S.\, Mexico\, Spain\, Australia and Switzerland. Her literary work includes five collections of poetry\, several plays\, four books of translations\, and three anthologies. She travels internationally as a performing poet\, writer and public speaker and has performed her literary work with world-renowned musicians nationally and internationally. Translator of Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (University of Arkansas Press\, 2010)\, Wolpé is the Writer-in-Residence at UC Irvine and lives in Los Angeles. \n\n“These are times for stories that bring one culture nearer to another\, and that is exactly what Jasmin Darznik has done\, pulling close the hearts of girls and women and poets to tell Forugh Farrokhzad’s remarkable story.”\n—Laleh Khadivi\, on Jasmin Darznik’s novel Song of a Captive Bird \n\nJasmin Darznik’s debut novel Song of a Captive Bird was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Jasmin is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and her essays have appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. Her next book\, a historical novel set in 1920s San Francisco\, is forthcoming in 2021. She is a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts\, in San Francisco. \n\n“Shabnam Piryaei’s work rings smart\, ‘Every inheritance is a compass.’; surreal\, ‘a benevolent crow / pecked daylight’s bullet / into the room’ …; and at the same time\, pinned fast with moments that are utterly tactile\, ‘somehow unbroken / in your sleeping hand\, a speckled egg’. A charming voice where NOTHING IS WASTED.” —Kimiko Hahn\n\nDescribed by the San Francisco Book Review as “a force to be reckoned with in literary circles\,” Shabnam Piryaei is an award-winning poet\, playwright\, media artist\, and filmmaker. In addition to authoring the books Nothing is Wasted (The Operating System\, 2017)\, FORWARD (Museum Books\, 2014) and ode to fragile (Plain View Press\, 2010)\, she has written and directed three poetry films that have screened at film festivals and art galleries around the world. She has been awarded first place in the Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Award\, Poets & Writers Amy Award\, the Transport of the Aim Poetry Prize\, the Brain Mill Press Editors’ Choice\, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant\, a Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Grant\, a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant and a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. She is currently directing a documentary film entitled there is no separate survival\, about asylum seekers across the U.S.-Mexico border. To learn more about her work\, visit shabnampiryaei.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-forugh-farrokhzad-with-sholeh-wolpe-jasmin-darznik-and-shabnam-piryael/
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CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Danez Smith and Patricia Smith | Readings + Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Danez Smith and Patricia Smith for a joint reading and conversation. This reading is generously funded by the Engaging the Senses Foundation\, and part of ARC’s ongoing Poetry and the Senses initiative. Danez and Patricia will be joined in conversation by 2020 ARC Poetry fellow Menat Allah El Attma and ARC Program Director Laurie Macfee\, and will be taking questions from the online audience. \nPoetry and the Senses creates meaningful opportunities for engagement\, research\, and collaboration. As a think tank for the arts at UC Berkeley\, ARC acts as a facilitator and connector between the campus and the many flourishing regional poetry communities. This two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) explores the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis\, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care\, mindfulness\, and resistance. \nThe theme for 2020 is emerge/ncy. What kinds of poetic modes of address might be recruited in times of global catastrophe? How does poetry help us think through and within crisis? “Emergency” implies urgency\, sudden harm\, life-threatening violence\, and extreme circumstances\, but embedded within it is the word “emergence;” suggesting rebirth and new beginnings. How can we understand moments of emergency as catalysts for renewal\, as ruptures that signal massive—if painful—change? \n\nDanez Smith is a Black\, Queer\, Poz writer & performer from St. Paul\, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection\, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Award; they also wrote [insert] boy (YesYes Books\, 2014)\, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the McKnight Foundation\, the Montalvo Arts Center\, Cave Canem\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez’s work has been featured widely\, appearing on platforms such as Buzzfeed\, The New York Times\, PBS NewsHour\, Best American Poetry\, Poetry Magazine\, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi\, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s third collection\, “Homie”\, was published by Graywolf in January 2020. Find more at www.danezsmithpoet.com \n\nPatricia Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry\, including Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books\, 2017)\, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the 2018 NAACP Image Award\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and was a  finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press\, 2012)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press\, 2008)\, a National Book Award finalist; and Gotta Go\, Gotta Flow (CityFiles Press\, 2015)\, a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House Press\, 2006)\, Close to Death (Zoland Books\, 1998)\, Big Towns Big Talk (Zoland Books\, 2002)\, Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha\, 1991);  the children’s book Janna and the Kings (Lee & Low\, 2013)\, and the history Africans in America (Mariner\, 1999)\, a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, The Paris Review\, The Baffler\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, Tin House and in Best American Poetry\, Best American Essays and Best American Mystery Stories. She co-edited The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (University of Arkansas Press\, 2017)\, and edited the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir (Akashic Books\, 2012). Smith is a Guggenheim fellow\, a Civitellian\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient\, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize\, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize\, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony\, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. Smith is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College\, as well as an instructor at the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Engaging the Senses Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danez-smith-and-patricia-smith-readings-conversation/
LOCATION:YouTube
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Travel Stories of Wonder and Change with Laura Deutsch\, April Orcutt\, and Anne Sigmon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to the virtual launch of Travel Stories of Wonder and Change\, a new anthology put out by the Bay Area Travel Writers! Readers will include the three winners of the Georgia Hesse Prize for travel writing: Laura Deutsch\, reading “The Rhythms of Arezzo;” April Orcutt\, reading “Tibetan Bargain with a Twist;” and Anne Sigmon\, reading “Sierra Point.” The pieces read aloud during the virtual launch will take listeners abroad—to Turkey\, Italy and Tibet—and to other parts of the US—to Yosemite\, Oahu and the elephant-seal rookery near Hearst Castle. \n“Like travel itself\, these essays made me gasp\, laugh — and\, yes\, cry. Evocative and beautifuly crafted\, they transcend genre …”\n—James M. Tabor\, New York Times bestselling author of Blind Descent and The Deep Zone \n“[These writers] have brought us the world at a time when so many of us have been forced to stay home. These stories take us to places we might not be able to reach ourselves\, show us our shared humanity and evoke the unpredictable wonder of travel.”\n—Michael Shapiro\, author of The Creative Spark and A Sense of Place \n“The time to travel is now — in our armchairs\, at least\, with this heartfelt new collection of travel essays … Full of wit and charm\, these mini memoirs make us yearn to travel again\, to find deeper meaning in all our adventures to come.”\n—Novella Carpenter\, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/travel-stories-of-wonder-and-change-with-laura-deutsch-april-orcutt-and-anne-sigmon-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Derek McCormack and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:A Semiotexte Books Double Bill with two razor-sharp writers of fiction \n       \ncelebrating the the release of two new novels \nCastle Faggot – by Derek McCormack – Afterword by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley \nA dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland. \nand \nThe Freezer Door – by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore \nA meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity. \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. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nabout CASTLE FAGGOT \nCastle Faggot is Derek McCormack’s darkest and most delicious book yet\, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland\, a playland for gay men\, and Castle Faggot\, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log\, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays—some were killed\, some killed themselves\, all ended up as décor. \nThe book includes a map of Faggotland\, a photobook of the castle\, the instructions for a castle-shaped dollhouse\, and the novelization of a TV puppet show about Count Choc-o-log and his friends—reminiscent of the classic stop-motion special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\, but even gayer and more grotesque. As scatological as Sade but with a Hanna-Barbera vibe\, Castle Faggot transmutes McCormack’s love of the lurid and the childlike\, of funhouses and sickhouses\, into something furiously funny: as Edmund White says\, “the mystery of objects\, the lyricism of neglected lives\, the menace and nostalgia of the past—these are all ingredients in this weird and beautiful parallel universe.” \nwhat has been said about CASTLE FAGGOT \n\n“In Derek McCormack’s home province\, farm boys with growing pains enjoy a little-known meal called bed-supper—a hearty bowl of sweet breakfast cereal enjoyed as a midnight snack. Here McCormack has composed a peculiarly salacious bed-supper\, where the long secret sweet-tooth of the Marquis de Sade glints as it sinks into the dirtiest of dishes. This useful book will more than stay your appetite until breakfast—Castle Faggot is also a manual of redecoration\, a musical\, a puppet show\, a theory of cosmetics\, a work of poetics\, and a glorious celebration of the French decadence.” – Lisa Robertson\, author of The Baudelaire Fractal \n\nabout THE FREEZER DOOR \nWhen you turn the music off\, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness\, that means turn the music back on\, right? When you still feel the sadness\, even with the music\, that means there’s something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn’t sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be.—The Freezer Door \nThe Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle\, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams\, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture\, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life. \nFerocious and tender\, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity. \nWhat has been said about THE FREEZER DOOR \n\n“I really love Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The Freezer Door. In a happy paradox common to great literature\, it’s a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone. I so admire its appetite to get down and dirty\, to wield non sequitur with grace and power\, to ponder the past while sticking with the present\, to quest unceasingly. I stand deeply inspired and instructed by its great wit\, candor\, inventiveness\, and majesty.” -Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n\nabout the authors: \nDerek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells\, Haunted Hillbilly\,  and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e)). (www.derekmccormack.com) \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014\, and her previous book\, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity\, Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. She lives in Seattle. (mattildabernsteinsycamore.com) \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/derek-mccormack-and-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nTo order the books\, click on the titles: Beowulf\, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley\, and The Future of Another Timeline\, by Annalee Newitz. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n– About Beowulf translated by Maria Dahvana Headley – \nNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley\, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English\, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine\, justice is rarely served\, and dragons live among us. \nA man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender\, genre\, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment\, powerful men seeking to become more powerful\, and one woman seeking justice for her child\, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf\, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. \nMaria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author and editor. Her novels include Magonia\, Aerie\, and Queen of Kings\, and she has also written a memoir\, The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard\, she is the author of The End of the Sentence\, and with Neil Gaiman\, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson\, Nebula\, and World Fantasy Awards\, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle\, where the first draft of The Mere Wife was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho\, and now lives in Brooklyn. \n– About The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz – \n1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert\, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend’s abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat\, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. \n2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future\, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she’s found a way to make an edit that actually sticks\, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. \nTess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline–a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past\, present\, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity\, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? \nAnnalee Newitz is an American journalist\, editor\, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT\, and have written for Popular Science\, The New Yorker\, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015\, and then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel\, Autonomous\, won a Lambda award. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-maria-dahvana-headley-beowulf-and-annalee-newitz-the-future-of-another-timeline/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays | Adult Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #4: Adult Fiction | Thu. Dec. 3 at 7 PM on Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Thursday\, December 3\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult fiction in this fourth episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031 \nThis is our fourth recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/12: Kids’ books and graphic novels\n1219: Adult nonfiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031\n\nUnited States\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Great Good Place for Books \n6120 La Salle Ave\, Oakland\, CA 94611 \n(510) 339-8210 • books@ggpbooks.com3
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-adult-fiction/
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CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Elena Passarello A conversation about animals\, wonders\, and the exuberance of the natural world
DESCRIPTION:Poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Elena Passarello in conversation about Aimee’s new book\, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, and Other Astonishments (Milkweed Editions). \n“Sometimes we need teachers who remind us how to be flabbergasted and gobsmacked and flummoxed and enswooned by the wonders of this earth. How to be in stupefied and devotional love to the wonders of this earth. How to be in love with this\, our beloved earth. Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders is as good and generous a teacher as one could ever ask for. This book enraptures with its own astonishments and reveries while showing us how to be enraptured\, how to revere. Which\, again\, is showing us how to be in love. I can think of nothing more important. Or wonderful.” — Ross Gay\, author of The Book of Delights \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout World of Wonders\nAs a child\, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution\, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona\, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted–no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape–she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. \n“What the peacock can do\,” she tells us\, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile\, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely\, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. \nWarm\, lyrical\, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura\, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy. \nAbout the authors\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poems\, including\, most recently\, Oceanic\, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Other awards for her writing include fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Mississippi Arts Council\, and MacDowell. Her writing appears in Poetry\, the New York Times Magazine\, ESPN\, and Tin House. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. \nElena Passarello is an actor\, a writer\, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books\, Let Me Clear My Throat\, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance\, pop culture\, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American\, Slate\, Creative Nonfiction\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications\, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. Passarello lives in Corvallis\, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aimee-nezhukumatathil-elena-passarello-a-conversation-about-animals-wonders-and-the-exuberance-of-the-natural-world/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #4: Adult Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, December 3\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult fiction in this fourth episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031 \nThis is our fourth recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/12: Kids’ books and graphic novels\n1219: Adult nonfiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031\n\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-4-adult-fiction/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
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SUMMARY:Short and Sweet: Prose Poems\, Flash Fiction and Mini-Memoirs with Alison Luterman
DESCRIPTION:“If brevity is the soul of wit\, then prose poems and flash memoirs are manna for the spirit! They are great ways to cut through to the heart of things; the space limitation helps push writers to leap-frog over thickets of exposition to land on the just-enough resonance of a clear thought or image\,” says instructor Alison Luterman. \nIn this online class we’ll look at examples of short pieces from practitioners such as Lydia Davis and Russell Edson\, and we’ll explore how to incorporate techniques like free association and juxtaposition into our work. Then we’ll write\, share\, and write some more. \nAlison says\, “By the end of class\, students will be conversant in a variety of short forms\, and will have a fistful of their own short pieces to link together or savor individually.” \nAll levels welcome; come prepared to jump in and splash around. \nDecember 03 – December 17\n3 Thursdays\, (PST) 7:00pm – 9:30pm\n\n\n$153.45 for members \n$165 for non-members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/short-and-sweet-prose-poems-flash-fiction-and-mini-memoirs-with-alison-luterman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
CREATED:20201118T212303Z
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SUMMARY:Words Out Loud Spoken Word
DESCRIPTION:Susana H. Case and Martha Addy Young read from their poetry\, Evening includes literary trivia quiz and open mic. \nSusana H. Case is the author of seven books of poetry. Dead Shark on the N Train\, from Broadstone Books (2020)\, is her newest. It won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite. Drugstore Blue\, from Five Oaks Press\, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). She is also the author of five chapbooks\, two of which won poetry prizes. Her poems appear widely in magazines and anthologies. Dr. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City. See more at susanahcase.com.  \nMartha Addy Young is the recipient of two Individual Artist Grants from the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a Poet Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She was the runner-up for the Bellevue Literary Review’s poetry prize\, and a finalist for the Larry Neal Writer’s Award and the Crosswinds Poetry Award. Her poem Dusk in Dupont Circle was recently featured in Poetry Daily. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland. \nTo Join the Zoom Meeting \nZoom Link. Meeting ID: 876 4770 1054 \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87647701054  \nMeeting ID: 876 4770 1054
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Philip Wexler":MAILTO:philipwexler@msn.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
CREATED:20201017T001750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201017T001750Z
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SUMMARY:National Kidney Foundation - 32nd Annual Author Luncheon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:The National Kidney Foundation’s Authors Luncheon is the largest literary event of its kind in the Bay Area\, allowing those who are passionate about literature to join with NKF in the effort to transform kidney care and improve the lives of millions through education\, advocacy\, and research\, \nFor 32 years the Authors Luncheon has welcomed nearly 1\,000 Bay Area guests to celebrate renowned\, bestselling authors. Doing our part to keep our community safe in the face of COVID-19\,on December 5\, 2020 we are taking the event VIRTUAL; connecting with our guests where they are—from the comfort of their favorite reading nooks all over the GLOBE.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-kidney-foundation-32nd-annual-author-luncheon-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
CREATED:20201126T011101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201126T011101Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Class: Kerrin Meis - Exploring Eastern Turkey: Art\, Culture\, and Politics (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Travelers to Turkey (actual and virtual) miss the real Turkey. In this class\, participants will (virtually) tour through: Ankara\, home of the award-winning Archaeological Museum; the Hittite sites of Yazilkaya and Bozakoy with their history-revealing sculpture; Trabzon\, home of the Hagia Sophia Church with its priceless Byzantine frescoes and the precariously perched Monastery of Sumela; Erzurum’s distinctive Mosque and Madrasa; the ghostly remains of the church of Ani and monasteries hugging the Armenian border; the mind-blowing palace of Ishak Pasha with its conglomeration of architectural styles; Akdamar on Lake Van\, home of the 10th-century Cathedral of the Holy Cross with astonishing and amusing relief sculpture; Mardin\, the golden city on Syria’s border—an architecture student’s paradise; captivating Diyarbakir\, the unofficial capital of Kurdistan\, with its Roman walls\, intriguing bazaar\, and fascinating Ulu Mosque; Nemrut Dag\, home of the monolithic sculptures and tomb of the megalomaniac ruler Antiochus I; Gobekli Tepe\, the most important archaeological site extant with finds from 11000 BC; Gazientep with the world’s largest and most spectacular collection of Roman mosaics from the sunken city of Zeugma. The “problems” with the Kurds and the Armenian genocide will be addressed. \nHayirli yolculuklar! \nKerrin Meis taught art history at SFSU for ten years and has led study tours in Europe. Her Book Passage classes have been favorites for years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-class-kerrin-meis-exploring-eastern-turkey-art-culture-and-politics-via-zoom/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
CREATED:20201126T011323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201126T011323Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Chris Rainier (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Chris Rainier’s Mask presents a striking collection of rare masks steeped in ancient tradition\, captured through the lens of one of the world’s most celebrated documentary photographers. \nChris is a documentary photographer and National Geographic explorer who is highly respected for his documentation of endangered cultures and traditional languages around the globe. He is a fellow at the Royal Geographic Society in London. Prior to Mask\, he published five books documenting traditional cultures around the globe\, from the Stone Age tribes of New Guinea to the ancient tradition of tattoo body marking. Rainier is the director of the Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation\, a global program focused on legally preserving biodiversity and cultural heritage. Rainier has photographed on all seven continents\, focusing on the preservation of the planet’s last wildernesses and traditional cultures. \nPhil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker\, teacher and editor\, lecturer and travel leader\, and storyteller and TV host. His fascination with the art\, literature\, and history of culture has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh\, Iceland to the Amazon\, in a worldwide search for what the ancients called the “soul of the world.” With more than 35 books and 15 scriptwriting credits to his name\, the “omnipresent influence of myth in modern life” is a thread that runs through all of his work. His books include Stoking the Creative Fires\, Once and Future Myths\, The Art of Pilgrimage\, The Hero’s Journey\, Wordcatcher\, The Painted Word\, The Oldest Story in the World\, The Book of Roads\, and The Accidental Aphorist. \n  \nBelow\, please find links to purchase their books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-chris-rainier-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
CREATED:20201026T192322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T192322Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:presents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, December 5\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegistration for our Zoom gathering will open soon\n\n\n–— \nin partnership with our friends at  \nThe Booksmith and The Bindery\, \ncurrently offering curbside pickup and in-person browsing \n— \nfeaturing\n \nDouglas Stuart \n(Shuggie Bain; Found Wanting; The Englishman) \nDouglas Stuart is a Scottish – American author. His debut novel\, Shuggie Bain\, was published in 2020 and is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is a finalist for the National Book Award. Stuart wrote Shuggie Bain over a ten year period and is currently at work on his second novel\, Loch Awe. His short stories\, Found Wanting\, and The Englishman\, were published in The New Yorker magazine. His essay\, Poverty\, Anxiety\, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature was published by Lit Hub. Born in Glasgow\, Scotland\, he has an MA from the Royal College of Art in London and since 2000 he has lived and worked in New York City. \nNafissa Thompson-Spires \n(Heads of the Colored People: Stories) \nNafissa Thompson-Spires earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s “The Organist\,” The Paris Review Daily\, Dissent\, Buzzfeed Books\, The White Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal\, and other publications. Her short story “Heads of the Colored People…” won StoryQuarterly’s 2016 Fiction Prize\, judged by Mat Johnson. Her writing has received support from Callaloo\, Tin House\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois. Her first book\, Heads of the Colored People\, was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award\, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Award\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize\, and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. \n  \nSarah Ladipo Manyika \n(Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun; In Dependence) \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, Zimbabwe\, and England. Sarah is a novelist\, short story writer\, essayist\, and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut novel\, In Dependence\, is an international bestseller while her second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun\, has been translated into a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris to Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama. Sarah is host of Conversations Across the Diaspora and currently serves as Board Director for the women’s writing residency\, Hedgebrook. \nMeg Elison \n(Find Layla; The Book of Etta; Book of the Unnamed Midwife) \nMeg Elison is a science fiction and horror author\, as well as a feminist essayist and cultural critic. Her work has been on the Tiptree long list\, nominated for the Audie Award\, and won the Philip K. Dick Award. She has also been published in McSweeney’s\, Shimmer\, Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Catapult\, Terraform\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. \nand more to be announced soon \n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-6/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T170000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Online Performance
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon presents a special online performance \n\n\nSaturday\, December 5\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering here\n\n\n\nin partnership with our friends at The Booksmith and The Bindery\, currently offering curbside pickup and in-person browsing\n\n\n\nfeaturing\n \nDouglas Stuart \n(Shuggie Bain; Found Wanting; The Englishman) \nDouglas Stuart is a Scottish – American author. His debut novel\, Shuggie Bain\, was published in 2020 and is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is a finalist for the National Book Award. Stuart wrote Shuggie Bain over a ten year period and is currently at work on his second novel\, Loch Awe. His short stories\, Found Wanting\, and The Englishman\, were published in The New Yorker magazine. His essay\, Poverty\, Anxiety\, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature was published by Lit Hub. Born in Glasgow\, Scotland\, he has an MA from the Royal College of Art in London and since 2000 he has lived and worked in New York City. \nNafissa Thompson-Spires \n(Heads of the Colored People: Stories) \nNafissa Thompson-Spires earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s “The Organist\,” The Paris Review Daily\, Dissent\, Buzzfeed Books\, The White Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal\, and other publications. Her short story “Heads of the Colored People…” won StoryQuarterly’s 2016 Fiction Prize\, judged by Mat Johnson. Her writing has received support from Callaloo\, Tin House\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois. Her first book\, Heads of the Colored People\, was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award\, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Award\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize\, and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. \nMeg Elison \n(Find Layla; The Book of Etta; Book of the Unnamed Midwife) \nMeg Elison is a science fiction and horror author\, as well as a feminist essayist and cultural critic. Her work has been on the Tiptree long list\, nominated for the Audie Award\, and won the Philip K. Dick Award. She has also been published in McSweeney’s\, Shimmer\, Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Catapult\, Terraform\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. \nSarah Ladipo Manyika \n(Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun; In Dependence) \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, Zimbabwe\, and England. Sarah is a novelist\, short story writer\, essayist\, and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut novel\, In Dependence\, is an international bestseller while her second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun\, has been translated into a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris to Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama. Sarah is host of Conversations Across the Diaspora and currently serves as Board Director for the women’s writing residency\, Hedgebrook. \nwith music by \nRachel Lightning Rose\n \nRock vocalist Rachel “Lightning” Rose is best known for her performances with Jefferson Starship and George Clinton\, and is an alumni of the world-famous Berklee College of Music. Her powerful vocals and surrealistic songwriting make for an immersive and chilling experience unlike anything else in popular music. \n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-online-performance/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
CREATED:20201105T222322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T222322Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: Alexander McCall Smith\, How to Raise an Elephant
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith will share How to Raise an Elephant\, the next book in his perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series\, which sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. \nTickets for this event are available for purchase on Eventbrite: click here! \nPlease note the morning start time\, as the author will be joining us from Scotland! \n“An escape from life’s woes as well as a suggestion for how to make the whole deal more palatable—fragility\, fruit cake\, and all.” —The Boston Globe \nHOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT is the next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child\, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say? \nALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and of a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world. He lives in Scotland. \nTICKETING INFORMATION: \nTickets include entry to the virtual event plus a hardcover copy of HOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT. Please note that your book will become available after publication date on November 24th. \n\nThere are two ticket options: choose IN-STORE PICKUP or have it SHIPPED to you (either in the U.S. or Internationally for an extra fee).\n\n\nUpon purchase\, you will be registered for the event via the email address you provide in your payment information in Eventbrite\, and will receive access information there from Crowdcast (our virtual events platform). Please make sure you are allowing /receiving email from Crowdcast! Do not share your login information with others; duplicate and/or unrecognized attendees will be removed from the event.\n\n\nOnce the book has published\, please allow 1-3 days to process each order; shipping times vary from 3-10 business days (more for international orders). We will provide tracking information via email.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ticketed-event-alexander-mccall-smith-how-to-raise-an-elephant/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T130000
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CREATED:20201112T191944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201112T191944Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: Alexander McCall Smith\, How to Raise an Elephant
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith will share How to Raise an Elephant\, the next book in his perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series\, which sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. \nTickets for this event are available for purchase on Eventbrite: click here! \nPlease note the morning start time\, as the author will be joining us from Scotland! \n“An escape from life’s woes as well as a suggestion for how to make the whole deal more palatable—fragility\, fruit cake\, and all.” —The Boston Globe \nHOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT is the next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child\, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say? \nALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and of a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world. He lives in Scotland. \nTICKETING INFORMATION: \nTickets include entry to the virtual event plus a hardcover copy of HOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT. Please note that your book will become available after publication date on November 24th. \n\nThere are two ticket options: choose IN-STORE PICKUP or have it SHIPPED to you (either in the U.S. or Internationally for an extra fee).\n\n\nUpon purchase\, you will be registered for the event via the email address you provide in your payment information in Eventbrite\, and will receive access information there from Crowdcast (our virtual events platform). Please make sure you are allowing /receiving email from Crowdcast! Do not share your login information with others; duplicate and/or unrecognized attendees will be removed from the event.\n\n\nOnce the book has published\, please allow 1-3 days to process each order; shipping times vary from 3-10 business days (more for international orders). We will provide tracking information via email.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ticketed-event-alexander-mccall-smith-how-to-raise-an-elephant-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
CREATED:20201104T172320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T172320Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Zeyn Joukhadar (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty Names of Night is a remarkably moving and lyrical novel that follows three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. \nZeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Map of Salt and Stars\, which has been translated into twenty languages\, was a 2018 Middle East Book Award winner in Youth Literature\, a 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. He is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in KINK: Stories (edited by RO Kwon & Garth Greenwell)\, Salon\, The Paris Review\, Shondaland\, [PANK]\, and elsewhere\, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Joukhadar has received fellowships from the Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Program\, the Arab American National Museum\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. \nCatherine Hernandez is a proud queer woman of colour\, radical mother\, theatre practitioner\, award-winning author\, and the Artistic Director of b current performing arts. Catherine’s first full-length fiction\, Scarborough\, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished manuscript and was shortlisted for various awards. Her one-woman show\, The Femme Playlist\, premiered at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 2014 as part of the afterRock Play Series co-produced by b current\, Eventual Ashes and Sulong Theatre. She has released two children’s books\, M is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book and I Promise\, and her second novel\, Crosshairs\, is coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-zeyn-joukhadar-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
CREATED:20201108T010450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T010450Z
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SUMMARY:Nerd Nite Kansai #18
DESCRIPTION:Nerd Nite Kansai #18\nWe’re back online for Nerd Nite Kansai #18 on December 18th.\nTune in at 18:00 for three new and fantastic talks! \nYou can RSVP from the form below or join us on our YouTube live stream\nhttps://forms.gle/JxLabJAfjTAoZqdJA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nerd-nite-kansai-18/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T005530
CREATED:20201104T165424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T165424Z
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SUMMARY:Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, December 8\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman’s new novel\, ANXIOUS PEOPLE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87874523125. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpAnxious\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AnxiousAB. \nDescription\n\nInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller \nA People Book of the Week\, Book of the Month Club selection\, #1 Indie Next Pick\, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping\, PopSugar\, The Washington Post\, New York Post\, Shondaland\, CNN\, and more! \n“[A] quirky\, big-hearted novel… Wry\, wise\, and often laugh-out-loud funny\, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming\, poignant novel about a crime that never took place\, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air\, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. \nLooking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation\, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything\, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face\, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent\, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom\, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. \nEach of them carries a lifetime of grievances\, hurts\, secrets\, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. \nRich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness)\, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship\, forgiveness\, and hope—the things that save us\, even in the most anxious times. \nAbout the Author\n\nFredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove\, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry\, Britt-Marie Was Here\, Beartown\, Us Against You\, and two novellas\, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime\, as well as one work of nonfiction\, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. His latest novel\, Anxious People\, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in Stockholm\, Sweden\, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook or Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.
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