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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:From Mazie Hirono\, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the U.S. Senate\, the intimate and inspiring story of how a girl born in rural Japan went on to become “a hero on the left” (The Washington Post)—and of the mother whose courageous choices made her journey possible \nMazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress\, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family’s rice farm in rural Japan\, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States\, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as “Keiko” did not speak English when she entered school in Hawaii\, she would go on to hold state and national office\, winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2012. \nThis intimate and inspiring memoir traces her remarkable life from her upbringing in Hawaii\, where the family first lived in a single room in a Honolulu boarding house while her mother worked two jobs to keep them afloat; to her emergence as a highly effective legislator whose determination to help the most vulnerable was grounded in her own experiences of economic insecurity\, lack of healthcare access\, and family separation. Finally\, it chronicles her evolution from dogged yet soft-spoken public servant into the fiery critic and advocate we know her as today. \nFor the vast majority of Mazie Hirono’s five decades in public service\, even as she fought for the causes she believed in\, she strove to remain polite and reserved. Steeped in the non-confrontational cultures of Japan and Hawaii\, and aware of the expectation that women in politics should never show an excess of emotion\, she had schooled herself to bite her tongue\, even as her male colleagues continually underestimated her. After the 2016 election\, however\, it was clear that she could moderate herself no longer. In the face of an autocratic administration\, Hirono was called to at last give voice to the fire that had always been inside her. \nThe moving and galvanizing account of a woman coming into her own power over the course of a lifetime in public service\, and of the mother who encouraged her immigrant daughter’s dreams\, Heart of Fire is the story of a uniquely American journey\, written by one of those fighting hardest to ensure that a story like hers is still possible. \nSenator Mazie K. Hirono is a graduate of the University of Hawaii\, Manoa and the Georgetown University Law Center. She has served in the Hawaii House of Representatives (1981-1994)\, as Hawaii’s lieutenant governor (1994-2002)\, and in the U.S. House of Representatives (2006-2013). She became Hawaii’s first female senator in 2013\, winning reelection in 2018. Hirono serves on the Committee on the Judiciary\, the Committee on Armed Services\, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-senator-mazie-k-hirono-online-event/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World
DESCRIPTION:This is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our wounds and reimagine the world. —Van Jones \nThe Festival’s opening event\, free to all\, is a clarion call to heal America and our own hearts. The United States\, lauded in its national anthem as “the land of the free and the home of the brave\,” continues to be plagued by endless gun violence\, police murders of unarmed Black people\, threats to democracy\, and hatred of “the other”… with an alarming increase in targeted anti-Asian attacks in the past year\, too. Ever since her Sikh family friend was shot after 9/11\, attorney and activist Valarie Kaur\, the daughter of Sikh farmers in Central California\, has achieved crucial policy change on multiple fronts\, including hate crimes\, racial profiling\, immigration detention\, and solitary confinement. Now she targets hatred itself. Her TED Talk on that topic has garnered more than three million views. \nYou can see Valarie live\, and ask your questions\, as she’s interviewed by Mother Jones race and justice reporter Jamilah King about Kaur’s book See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love\, that expands on that blockbuster TED talk. The book has been praised by visionaries across the progressive spectrum\, from Eve Ensler to Reza Aslan. The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander called it “inspirational\, radical…  a reliable moral compass.” What is this “revolutionary love”? It’s far “more than a rush of feeling\,” Kaur says. “Love is fierce labor.” Discover just what this kind of love is and how you too can “be the change you want to see\,” as Gandhi\, and now this powerful woman\, call us to do. \nYou can submit questions when you register\, and we’ll also take questions live during the event. \nRegister Here\n\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/see-no-stranger-a-radical-vision-for-mending-our-world/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kazuo Ishiguro and Yaa Gyasi
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, May 2nd at 1pm PT for an afternoon with Kazuo Ishiguro and Yaa Gyasi in celebration of Ishiguro’s new novel\, Klara and the Sun. \nIn partnerhsip with Bay Area Book Festival\nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT\nFor questions regarding tickets\, please contact ticketing@baybookfest.org \nAbout the Event\nWhen bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017\, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection in the world.” Now here’s your chance to ask this “poet of the unspoken” (New York Times) your questions about his vision\, writing life\, and his first novel since winning the Nobel. Reserve your spot now and get your copy of that novel\, Klara and the Sun (complete with a signed bookplate for the first 250 ticket-holders) as soon as it drops in March\, with plenty of time to drink it in before our live event. \nFrom Remains of the Day (“an almost perfect book\,” said The New Yorker’s James Wood) to Never Let Me Go (deemed “a page-turner and a heartbreaker” by Entertainment Weekly)\, Ishiguro’s equal fluency with wildly imaginative surrealism and the delicate bonds of relationships has changed the literary world’s perception of what a novel can do. Klara and The Sun is no exception. Grounded in a futuristic milieu\, this “dazzling genre-bending work” (Publishers Weekly) sheds powerful beams of light on everything from environmental destruction to the secret sorrows of childhood\, through the adventures of “Artificial Friend” Klara\, a solar-powered humanlike robot designed to be a child’s companion. Ishiguro’s partner for this conversation is rising literary star Yaa Gyasi\, a PEN/Hemingway award winner for Homegoing\, whose newest novel\, 2020’s Transcendent Kingdom\, was called “a book of blazing brilliance” by The Washington Post. \nThese renowned authors come from two very different generations\, backgrounds\, and literary styles\, but they share an uncanny ability to lay bare the secrets of the human heart. And we can’t wait to share their unforgettable presence with you in this much-anticipated headlining event. \nDetails\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. Signed copies are limited to the first 250 buyers of that ticket type and all copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 2. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kazuo-ishiguro-and-yaa-gyasi/
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SUMMARY:Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
DESCRIPTION:When bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017\, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection in the world.” Now here’s your chance to ask this “poet of the unspoken” (New York Times) your questions about his vision\, writing life\, and his first novel since winning the Nobel. Reserve your spot now and get your copy of that novel\, Klara and the Sun (complete with a signed bookplate for the first 250 ticket-holders) as soon as it drops in March\, with plenty of time to drink it in before our live event. \nFrom Remains of the Day (“an almost perfect book\,” said The New Yorker‘s James Wood) to Never Let Me Go (deemed “a page-turner and a heartbreaker” by Entertainment Weekly)\, Ishiguro’s equal fluency with wildly imaginative surrealism and the delicate bonds of relationships has changed the literary world’s perception of what a novel can do. Klara and The Sun is no exception. Grounded in a futuristic milieu\, this “dazzling genre-bending work” (Publishers Weekly) sheds powerful beams of light on everything from environmental destruction to the secret sorrows of childhood\, through the adventures of “Artificial Friend” Klara\, a solar-powered humanlike robot designed to be a child’s companion. Ishiguro’s partner for this conversation is rising literary star Yaa Gyasi\, a PEN/Hemingway award winner for Homegoing\, whose newest novel\, 2020’s Transcendent Kingdom\, was called “a book of blazing brilliance” by The Washington Post. \nThese renowned authors come from two very different generations\, backgrounds\, and literary styles\, but they share an uncanny ability to lay bare the secrets of the human heart. And we can’t wait to share their unforgettable presence with you in this much-anticipated headlining event. \nEvent Details\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. Signed copies are limited to the first 250 buyers of that ticket type and all copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 2. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-and-illusion-kazuo-ishiguro-on-klara-and-the-sun/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Astra Taylor with Robert Reich
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, May 2\, 2021\n1:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 05/02/2021\, 05/04/2021\, 05/05/2021\nDONATE \n \n\n\nAstra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy\, democracy\, and political organizing transcends form\, emerging through documentary films\, books\, essays\, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include What is Democracy? (2018)\, Zizek! (2005)\, and An Examined Life (2008). Taylor is also the author of Democracy May Not Exist\, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, and the American Book Award-winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Her new book\, Remake the World: Essays\, Reflections\, Rebellions\, tackles the rising popularity of socialism\, the problem of automation\, the politics of listening\, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world\, the future of the university\, the temporal challenge of climate catastrophe\, and more. Addressing some of the most pressing social problems of our day\, Taylor invites us to imagine how things could be different while never losing sight of the strategic question of how change actually happens. \nRobert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration\, he has written fifteen books\, including The System\, Aftershock\, The Work of Nations\, and Saving Capitalism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/astra-taylor-with-robert-reich/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon - May 2021
DESCRIPTION:Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton). Her memoir-in-essays\, Bukowski in a Sundress\, was published by Penguin. She has received NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships\, Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and the essay\, and her poetry has been widely translated and anthologized. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist in poetry. She lives in Oakland\, CA. https://www.kimaddonizio.com\nChanda Feldman is the author of Approaching the Fields (LSU Press). Her recent poems appear in Gettysburg Review\, Poetry\, and the Southern Review. She has received awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the MacDowell Colony\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, among others\, and she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Chanda is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College.\nNeha Chaudhary-Kamdar is a former Stegner Fellow in Fiction and has an MFA from Boston University\, where she received the William A. Holodnak Prize for her work. She was born and raised in Hyderabad\, India\, and often writes about the lives of Indian women. Her work has been published in Salamander Magazine and in the Anthology of New Indian Writers. She lives in Oakland\, CA\, and is working on her first novel.\nJim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook\, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press\, 2019) and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His recent poems have appeared in The New York Times\, Ploughshares\, The Southern Review\, Pleiades\, and Boston Review. Originally from Cookeville\, Tennessee\, he holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and lives in Oakland\, California.\n——-\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon – May 2021\nTime: May 2\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://usfca.zoom.us/j/85144902927…\nMeeting ID: 851 4490 2927\nPasscode: 088938
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-may-2021/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:When Everything Falls Apart\, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China\, Tolstoy\, and the Power of Art\, with Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:Orville Schell\, Adam Hochschild\, Yiyun Li\nIn a heartstopping scene from Orville Schell’s My Old Home\, trained musician Li Tongshu sits at his piano\, eyes closed\, playing “Jesu\, Joy of Man’s Desiring\,” as Red Guards storm his home. They’re there to arrest him as a bourgeois traitor\, but what they don’t know is that the legacy of Li’s music\, and the loyalty of his young son\, Little Li\, is not easily snuffed out.  A journalist and renowned expert on China\, Schell has penned his first novel\, drawing not only on his deep knowledge of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution but on his conviction that art and love can outlive brutality. \nJoining him is MacArthur “genius” and award-winning writer Yiyun Li\, who came of age during the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown\, emigrated to the U.S. at 23 as a young scientist\, and eventually took the literary world by storm with her fiction\, memoir and essays. Li regularly turned to reading Tolstoy for solace during tough times in her own life\, so in the early days of the pandemic she collaborated with A Public Space—the literary magazine\, publisher\, and academy—to lead a free virtual book club where thousands of people\, isolated under shelter-in-place\, read War and Peace together over three months. The project\, which garnered worldwide attention\, now has been made into a book\, Tolstoy Together\, a guided experience for past and new readers. \nThis “Writer to Writer” conversation—moderated by award-winning journalist\, historian\, and author Adam Hochschild\, a lifelong friend of Orville’s and a Russian-speaking Tolstoy fan—will explore how art truly can light a lamp in the dark. \nGet your Ticket\n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-everything-falls-apart-how-does-the-heart-survive-orville-schell-and-yiyun-li-on-china-tolstoy-and-the-power-of-art-with-adam-hochschild/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Kevin Dublin & Antony Fangary
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing\, curated through a blind process by Kevin Dublin and Antony Fangary into a one-night only performance featuring: \nSIDE A \nRohan DaCosta \nNaomi Rosenthal \nCarol Dorf \nSiamak Vossoughi \nLauren Ito \nMichael Warr \nDawn Angelicca Barcelona \nEmily Dezurick-Badran \nSIDE B \nCarol Dorf \nSally Love Saunders \nSiok-Hian Tay-Kelley \nCharles Kruger \nAlexander Laurence \nNick Plett \nGenie Cartier \nSara Biel \nPaolo Bicchieri \nSara Biel \nCarolyn Wilsey \nAndrew Paul Nelson \nChun Yu \nLauren Parker \nMary Gayle Thomas \nLeah Mueller \nAll selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE + bLINK 110\, featuring cover art by Stuart Robertson! \nPlease note: this show is free and all ages (with mature content)\, but RSVP is required. \nIf 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 two easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation of any amount: \nPaypal or Venmo \nOr consider supporting us on Patreon! \nABOUT THE BOOKS \nIf you’d like to purchase the book you can do that here for $10 + shipping\, or you can donate $15 or more to Quiet Lightning by Paypal or Venmo and we’ll send you sPARKLE & bLINK 109 + a surprise back issue. \nA note about the books: if we don’t sell out before we print our next book\, the price will go down to $5/copy. You can order most of our back issues here. You should also know: we make all of our books available to read and watch for free. For virtual events we are printing 75 books/show. 100% of all proceeds\, donations or not\, go toward local artists and independent businesses. \nABOUT THE CURATORS \nKevin Dublin is a writer of poetry\, prose\, scripts\, and code originally from the small town of Smithfield\, NC. His words have recently appeared in The Racket\, Cincinnati Review\, North Carolina Literary Review\, Sparkle + Blink\, and he is author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego (Finishing Line Press\, 2017). Kevin holds an MFA from San Diego State\, leads workshops all over the bay area\, including Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, and enjoys making video adaptations of poetry and developing web apps for writers. \nAntony Fangary is a Coptic-American Poet\, Educator\, and Artist living in San Francisco. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Oakland Review\, New American Writing\, Interim\, Welter\, and elsewhere. His chapbook\, HARAM\, was published by Etched Press in 2019. Antony was Honorable Mention of the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize\, Finalist for the 2019 Wabash Prize\, Runner-up for the 2020 Test Site Poetry Series\, and holds an MFA from San Francisco State University. \nCan’t make it? The show will be archived in video and full text\, like all of our previous readings! Find them\, along with a daily calendar of Bay Area literary events + more\, @ Litseen. \nNot on our mailing list yet? Sign up for email updates of upcoming Quiet Lightning events and calls for submissions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-literary-mixtape-curated-by-kevin-dublin-antony-fangary/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Allison Cobb discusses her new book\, Plastic: An Autobiography
DESCRIPTION:Allison Cobb in conversation about her book\, Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat Books). \n“Plastic: an Autobiography is a spinning gyre of history\, biology\, poetry\, and chemistry\, gathering centripetal force through attention to such particulars as a shard of plastic from WWII found lodged in the belly of an albatross sixty years later. This is a fierce and brilliant work that perhaps could only have been written by a poet who grew up in the shadow of Los Alamos\, aware that the most destructive of human inventions can seem salvific until it is almost too late. Let this book be a call to awareness and action.”–Carolyn Forché\, author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance \n  \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon! \nAbout Plastic: An Autobiography\nIn Plastic: An Autobiography\, Cobb’s obsession with a large plastic car part leads her to explore the violence of our consume-and-dispose culture\, including her own life as a child of Los Alamos\, where the first atomic bombs were made. The journey exposes the interconnections among plastic waste\, climate change\, nuclear technologies\, and racism. Using a series of interwoven narratives―from ancient Phoenicia to Alabama―the book bears witness to our deepest entanglements and asks how humans continue on this planet. \nAbout Allison Cobb\nAllison Cobb (pronouns she/her) is the author of After We All Died\, Plastic: an autobiography\, Born2\, and Green-Wood. Cobb’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry\, Denver Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, and many other journals. She was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and National Poetry Series; has been a resident artist at Djerassi and Playa; and received fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission\, the Regional Arts and Culture Council\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Cobb works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland\, Oregon\, where she co-hosts The Switch reading\, art\, and performance series and performs in the collaboration Suspended Moment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/allison-cobb-discusses-her-new-book-plastic-an-autobiography-facebook-twitter-pinterest/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mary Beth Meehan with Fred Turner
DESCRIPTION:aunch party for the new book \nSeeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America \npublished by University of Chicago Press \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link coming soon! \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nAcclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world. \nIt’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders\, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley\, one segregated by race\, class\, and nationality in complex and contradictory ways. Its beautiful landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind by decades of technological innovation\, and while its billionaires live in compounds\, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences\, its service workers live in their cars. \nWith arresting photography and intimate stories\, Seeing Silicon Valley makes this hidden world visible. Instead of young entrepreneurs striving for efficiency in minimalist corporate campuses\, we see portraits of struggle—families displaced by an impossible real estate market\, workers striving for a living wage\, and communities harmed by environmental degradation. If the fate of Silicon Valley is the fate of America—as so many of its boosters claim—then this book gives us an unvarnished look into the future. \nMary Beth Meehan is a photographer known for her large-scale\, community-based portraiture centered around questions of representation\, visibility\, and social equity in the United States. She lives in New England\, where she has lectured at Brown University\, Rhode Island School of Design\, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. \nFred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of the books The Democratic Surround and From Counterculture to Cyberculture both published by the University of Chicago Press. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-beth-meehan-with-fred-turner/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Arisa White & Friends"
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of Arisa White’s new poetry collection\, WHO’S YOUR DADDY\, with her friends MK Chavez and Vickie Vértiz at Odd Mondays May 3. MK and Vickie read from their newest collections\, DEAR ANIMAL\, and PALM FROND WITH ITS THROAT CUT\, respectively.\nJoin us from 7pm to 8pm Pacific time on Zoom. Get the link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy the books from Folio Books Noe Valley at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-arisa-white-friends/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20260403T132045
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SUMMARY:Interior Chinatown\, Tinseltown\, and Other Worlds Imagined: Charles Yu on Showbiz and Storytelling\, with Lodge 49’s Jim Gavin
DESCRIPTION:When Trevor Noah of The Daily Show asked Charles Yu why he wrote his National Book Award-winning novel\, the devastating “parable for outcasts” (Kirkus) Interior Chinatown\, in the form of a screenplay\, Yu deadpanned\, “I work in Hollywood\, so I already had the software.” A veteran of several TV series (including HBO’S Westworld)\, Yu honed his hilarious\, convention-defying masterwork with an insider’s insight and an outlier’s genius. Yu found an oasis in the writer’s room of fellow novelist Jim Gavin’s (Middle Men) AMC cult-favorite series Lodge 49\, an underdog’s hymn that channels Thomas Pynchon\, counts Patton Oswalt and Tom Hanks as diehard fans\, and “makes as good an argument for the existence of a kind of shabby everyday magic as you’ll find anywhere” (NPR). \nBelly up to the bar and raise a drink with these two friends and fellow-travelers as they toast to creating worlds for page and screen\, making the ordinary extraordinary\, and finding strength—and hilarity—in difference and struggle. \nGet your Ticket\n  \n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/interior-chinatown-tinseltown-and-other-worlds-imagined-charles-yu-on-showbiz-and-storytelling-with-lodge-49s-jim-gavin/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210503T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun\, Goodbye\, Again
DESCRIPTION:FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun\, the wonderfully original author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too\, will be in conversation with writer and comedian Demi Adejuyigbe about Goodbye\, Again\, Sun’s new collection of touching and hilarious personal essays\, stories\, poems—accompanied by his trademark illustrations—covering topics such as mental health\, happiness\, and what it means to belong.  \n“This poetic\, humorous\, and heartfelt collection will have readers nodding along\, laughing\, and maybe even crying\, but more than anything they will be engrossed and craving more. Similar to Sun’s previous work\, this is another standout.” —Library Journal\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!This is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below—we will have signed copies in stock!\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nJonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique\, funny\, and heartfelt style. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like loneliness and being an outsider\, to short humor pieces\, conversations\, and memorable one-liners. \nJonny’s honest writings about his struggles with feeling productive\, as well as his difficulties with anxiety and depression will connect deeply with his fans as well as anyone attempting to create in our chaotic world. \nIt also features a recipe for scrambled eggs that might make you cry.\n \nJonathan Sun is the author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too\, and the wildly popular twitter account @jonnysun. He’s also an architect\, designer\, engineer\, artist\, playwright\, and comedy writer. His work across multiple disciplines broadly addresses narratives of human experience. As a playwright\, Jonathan’s works have been performed at the Yale School of Drama\, the Hart House Theater in Toronto\, the Toronto Theater Lab’s First Sight festival\, and the University of Toronto Drama Festival (where he received the President’s Awards for Best Production and Outstanding Playwriting). As an artist and illustrator\, his work has been commissioned by the New Haven ArtSpace\, and has been exhibited at Yale University and the University of Toronto. \nDemi Adejuyigbe is a writer and comedian in Los Angeles best known for his work on The Good Place\, The Late Late Show\, and the Amber Ruffin Show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jonny-sun-goodbye-again/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210504T180000
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SUMMARY:Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life
DESCRIPTION:Watch & share this talk on YouTube\, Facebook\, Twitter and Long Now Live. \nWhat is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For much of human history\, these questions have been the province of religion and philosophy. What answers can science provide? \nIn this talk\, Sean Carroll will share what physicists know\, and don’t yet know\, about the nature of time. He’ll argue that while the universe might not have purpose\, we can create meaning and purpose through how we approach reality\, and how we live our lives. \nSean Carroll is a Research Professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology\, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His research has focused on fundamental physics and cosmology\, especially issues of dark matter\, dark energy\, spacetime symmetries\, and the origin of the universe. \nRecently\, Carroll has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics\, the emergence of spacetime\, and the evolution of entropy and complexity. Carroll is the author of Something Deeply Hidden\, The Big Picture\, The Particle at the End of the Universe amongst other books and hosts the Mindscapes podcast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sean-carroll-the-passage-of-time-and-the-meaning-of-life/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210504T190000
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SUMMARY:Stacey Lee with Stephanie Garber
DESCRIPTION:Fans of Stacey Lee’s wonderful historical fiction rejoice! \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are thrilled to announce we are launching Stacey Lee’s powerful and critically acclaimed new novel\, Luck of the Titanic\, the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck\, twin British-Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage.  We couldn’t be more excited. \n This is the Titanic story you need\, a story bound to become your new favorite. Here’s what people are saying:: \n “Stacey Lee’s superpower is her ability to turn history’s forgotten into today’s unforgettable; and you’ll never forget the terror and joy of travelling with Valora Luck\, whose unsinkable spirit gleams like a rescue flare through the icy murk of the past.” —Elizabeth Wein (Code Name Verity) \n* “A gem from start to bittersweet finish.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“This is the kind of book I absolutely love. Heroism and heartbreaking tragedy\, seen through the eyes of those who have been left off the pages of our history books.” —Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) \n“Hope\, heroism\, and heartache collide in an unforgettable story\, suffused with love.” —Julie Berry (Lovely War) \n“With a plot as tense as a walk on a tightrope and a wily heroine you’ll cheer on till the very end\, Luck of the Titanic is historical fiction at its most thrilling.” Laura Ruby\, (Bone Gap) \nStacey Lee is the author of Under a Painted Sky\, Outrun the Moon\, Secret of a Heart Note\, and The Downstairs Girl \, is the winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. She will be chatting with Stephanie Garber\, author of Caraval\, Legendary\, and Finale. \nJoin us online to celebrate with two of our longtime favorite authors for one of the most anticipated books of the Spring.  It doesn’t get better than this!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stacey-lee-with-stephanie-garber-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Ian Manuel with Messiah Ramkissoon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 4 at 6pm PT when we welcome Ian Manuel for the launch of his book\, My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime\, Punishment\, Hope\, and Redemption\, with Messiah Ramkissoon on Zoom!\n\nLimited signed bookplates available.\nIn partnership with Youth Justice Network\nwith proceeds benefitting the Prisoners Literature Project\nGreen Apple will donate 10% of each copy sold to PLP\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88615146964\n\nAbout My Time Will Come\nAt fourteen Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole. My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art.\n\n“Ian is magic. His story is difficult and heartbreaking\, but he takes us places we need to go to understand why we must do better.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy\n\n“My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields—judges\, prosecutors\, juvenile probation officers\, sociologists\, journalists. But I would like to try to tell it to you myself. I have reason to believe the experts may be wrong about me. You see\, today\, thirty years later\, I am neither in prison nor dead.” —from My Time Will Come\n\nThe United States is the only country in the world that sentences thirteen- and fourteen-year-old offenders\, mostly youth of color\, to life in prison without parole\, regardless of the scientifically proven singularities of the developing adolescent brain—a heinous wrinkle in the scandal of mass incarceration. In 1991\, Ian Manuel\, then fourteen\, was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime. In a botched mugging attempt with some older boys\, he shot Debbie Baigrie\, a young white mother of two\, in the face. But as Bryan Stevenson\, attorney and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative\, has insisted\, none of us should be judged by only the worst thing we have ever done.\n\nCapturing the fullness of his humanity\, here is Manuel’s powerful testimony of growing up homeless in Central Park Village in Tampa\, Florida—a neighborhood riddled with poverty\, gang violence\, and drug abuse—and of his efforts to rise above his circumstances\, only to find himself\, partly through his own actions\, imprisoned for two-thirds of his life\, eighteen years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Here is the at once wrenching and inspiring story of how he endured the savagery of the United States prison system\, and how his victim\, an extraordinary woman\, forgave him and bravely advocated for his freedom\, which was achieved by a crusade on the part of the Equal Justice Initiative to address the barbarism of our judicial system and bring about “just mercy.”\n\nFull of unexpected twists and turns as it describes a struggle to attain the glory of redemption\, My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art—in Ian Manuel’s case\, through his dedication to writing poetry.\n\nAbout Ian Manuel\nIan Manuel lives in New York City. He is a motivational speaker at schools and social organizations nationwide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-ian-manuel-with-messiah-ramkissoon/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Jonny Sun / Goodbye\, Again: Essays\, Reflections\, and Illustrations
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Jonny Sun again\, for his new book Goodbye\, Again: Essays\, Reflections\, and Illustrations! We are also pleased to announce we have **signed copies** for the first 100 orders! You can order Goodbye\, Again here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nAbout the book\nThe wonderfully original author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too gives us a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays\, stories\, poems—accompanied by his trademark illustrations—covering topics such as mental health\, happiness\, and what it means to belong. \nJonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique\, funny\, and heartfelt style. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like loneliness and being an outsider\, to short humor pieces\, conversations\, and memorable one-liners. \nJonny’s honest writings about his struggles with feeling productive\, as well as his difficulties with anxiety and depression will connect deeply with his fans as well as anyone attempting to create in our chaotic world. \nIt also features a recipe for scrambled eggs that might make you cry. \nAbout the author\nJonny Sun is the best-selling author and illustrator of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too and the illustrator of Gmorning\, Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He was a writer for the Emmy-nominated sixth season of the Netflix Original Series BoJack Horseman\, and is currently writing a movie\, a new book\, and multiple other projects. As a doctoral candidate at MIT and a creative researcher at the Harvard metaLAB\, he studies social media\, virtual place\, and online community. He has a master’s degree in architecture from Yale and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Toronto. TIME Magazine named him one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet of 2017\, and in 2019\, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list\, and gave a TED Talk that has been viewed online over 3 million times. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-jonny-sun-goodbye-again-essays-reflections-and-illustrations/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Erica Hunt and Michael Palmer
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform.\n\n       \nreading from new works \nJump The Clock by Erica Hunt – published by Nightboat \nLittle Elegies for Sister Satan by Michael Palmer – published by New Directions \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 coming soon! \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase Jump The Clock by Erica Hunt – link coming soon! \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase Little Elegies for Sister Satan by Michael Palmer – link coming soon! \n———– \nAbout Erika Hunt’s Jump The Clock \nErica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics—racial and gender justice\, feminist ethics\, and participatory democracy—showing us that altering our reading strategies frames our experiences. Ultimately\, she finds that words matter\, savoring the small ones: articles\, pronouns\, collective\, plural and singular. This collection brings together out of print works and journals of the same period\, to speak across “crumpled” time\, the past seen from then to now. \nAbout Michael Plamer’s Little Elegies for Sister Satan \nLittle Elegies for Sister Satan presents searingly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer\, “the foremost experimental poet of his generation\, and perhaps of the last several generations” (citation for The Poetry Society of America’s Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars\, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again)\, as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages\, voices speak from a decentered place\, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: “When I think of ‘possible worlds\,’ I think not of philosophy\, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.” \nErica Hunt is a poet and essayist\, author of Local History\, Arcade\, Piece Logic\, Veronica: A Suite in X Parts\, and Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems\, published by Nightboat Books in November 2020. Her poems and essays have appeared in BOMB\, Boundary 2\, Brooklyn Rail\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Poetics Journal\, Tripwire\, Recluse\, In the American Tree\, and Conjunctions. With Dawn Lundy Martin\, Hunt is the editor of an anthology of new writing by Black women\, Letters to the Future. Hunt has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, the Fund for Poetry\, and the Djerassi Foundation and is a past fellow of Duke University/University of Capetown Program in Public Policy. She teaches at Brown University. \nMichael Palmer is an American born in New York City in 1943 and long resident in San Francisco\, nearly all of Palmer’s poetry is published by New Directions: At Passages (1995); The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972–1995 (1998); The Promises of Glass (2000); Codes Appearing: Poems 1979–1988 (2001); Company of Moths (2005); and most recently\, Thread (2011). He is the translator of works by Emmanuel Hocquard\, Vicente Huidobro\, and Alexei Parshchikov\, among others\, and the editor of Code of Signals: Recent Writings in Poetics. For over thirty years he has collaborated with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erica-hunt-and-michael-palmer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Ian Manuel
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MAY 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE WELCOME IAN MANUEL FOR THE LAUNCH OF HIS BOOK\, MY TIME WILL COME: A MEMOIR OF CRIME\, PUNISHMENT\, HOPE\, AND REDEMPTION\, ON ZOOM!\nLIMITED SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE.\nIN PARTNERSHIP WITH PRISONERS LITERATURE PROJECT\nGreen Apple will donate 10% of each copy sold to PLP \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88615146964\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88615146964#  or +12532158782\,\,88615146964#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbMq4Jxn3I \nAbout My Time Will Come \nAt fourteen Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole. My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art. \n“Ian is magic. His story is difficult and heartbreaking\, but he takes us places we need to go to understand why we must do better.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \n“My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields—judges\, prosecutors\, juvenile probation officers\, sociologists\, journalists. But I would like to try to tell it to you myself. I have reason to believe the experts may be wrong about me. You see\, today\, thirty years later\, I am neither in prison nor dead.” —from My Time Will Come \nThe United States is the only country in the world that sentences thirteen- and fourteen-year-old offenders\, mostly youth of color\, to life in prison without parole\, regardless of the scientifically proven singularities of the developing adolescent brain—a heinous wrinkle in the scandal of mass incarceration. In 1991\, Ian Manuel\, then fourteen\, was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime. In a botched mugging attempt with some older boys\, he shot Debbie Baigrie\, a young white mother of two\, in the face. But as Bryan Stevenson\, attorney and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative\, has insisted\, none of us should be judged by only the worst thing we have ever done. \nCapturing the fullness of his humanity\, here is Manuel’s powerful testimony of growing up homeless in Central Park Village in Tampa\, Florida—a neighborhood riddled with poverty\, gang violence\, and drug abuse—and of his efforts to rise above his circumstances\, only to find himself\, partly through his own actions\, imprisoned for two-thirds of his life\, eighteen years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Here is the at once wrenching and inspiring story of how he endured the savagery of the United States prison system\, and how his victim\, an extraordinary woman\, forgave him and bravely advocated for his freedom\, which was achieved by a crusade on the part of the Equal Justice Initiative to address the barbarism of our judicial system and bring about “just mercy.” \nFull of unexpected twists and turns as it describes a struggle to attain the glory of redemption\, My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art—in Ian Manuel’s case\, through his dedication to writing poetry. \nAbout Ian Manuel \nIan Manuel lives in New York City. He is a motivational speaker at schools and social organizations nationwide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-ian-manuel/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210504T200000
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SUMMARY:Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Vendela Vida\, Cherilyn Parsons\, Carol Edgarian\n\nFrom the Barbary Coast to the Summer of Love to the tech takeover\, San Francisco has always been a city in flux\, a writer’s dream\, and a favorite setting for literature. Its boom-and-bust drama and breathtaking beauty also make it a perfect backdrop for coming-of-age stories: especially ones about girls who can’t be pigeonholed. \nWho better to chronicle the city’s growing pains—and those of two unforgettable teenage women—than two leading ladies of the Bay Area literary scene? Carol Edgarian\, publisher of Narrative Magazine\, has delivered “that rare novel you’ll want to buy for loved ones” (Andre Dubus III) with Vera\, a pulse-pounding\, often hilarious saga of a fierce 15-year-old\, the daughter of a bordello owner\, amidst the 1906 earthquake and fires. (Nob Hill\, Pacific Heights\, Market Street\, the longed-for “fire escape” ferry to Oakland—they’re all here.) \nWe wonder what Vera would have to say to Eulabee\, the protagonist of Vendela Vida’s funny\, poignant We Run the Tides\, who comes of age during the pre-tech-boom days of the 1990s (Eulabee haunts “Sea Cliff\,” China Beach\, the Haight). Vida\, co-founder of The Believer magazine\, 826 Valencia\, and other Bay Area literary institutions\, puts Eulabee squarely in the middle of a web of lies instigated by her fabulously-named friend Maria Fabiola\, a social climber (also very San Francisco). \nWhether you know San Francisco or not\, whether you long for its “good old days” or still find it magical\, these stories and this conversation\, part of the Festival’s “Writer to Writer” series\, will hit home for anyone who has undergone the harrowing journey of growing up. \nRegister Here\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link. \nThis event is also part of the Festival’s Women Lit series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/epicenter-of-girlhood-carol-edgarian-and-vendela-vida-on-coming-of-age-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with Author Jenny True
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, May 4\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with author Jenny True in conversation with Catherine Newman (author of HOW TO BE A PERSON: 65 HUGELY USEFUL\, SUPER-IMPORTANT SKILLS TO LEARN BEFORE YOU’RE GROWN UP). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85795898890\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of YOU LOOK TIRED at http://bit.ly/ggpTired\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/TiredAB \nDescription\n\nIn the tradition of Ali Wong and Amy Schumer comes this whip-smart\, spit-out-your-coffee funny guide for new parents—from popular blogger and columnist Jenny True. Plenty of “new parent” guides cover the basics of breastfeeding\, bonding\, sleep\, and “getting back in shape.” But nowhere is a guide that tells you\, WTF is this squeeze bottle thing from the hospital?\nYou Look Tired is a totally honest\, tell-it-like-it-is guide for new moms who don’t want any more advice. Writing as Jenny True on her “Excruciatingly Personal Mommy Blog” and in the “Dear Jenny” column on Romper\, Jenny has been called the “postpartum feelings doula\,” as she doles out her unique mix of humor\, rage\, and encouragement (with a smidge of practical advice)\, including: \n\nBirth Hurts: Prenatal yoga is a waste of time.\nJabba the Hutt Was Just Postpartum: It explains so much.\nAn Open Letter to People Who Say\, “Looks like you have your hands full!”\n\nAnd much more! \nAbout the Author\n\nJenny Pritchett (alias Jenny True) is a nationally recognized columnist for Romper\, where she publishes advice on pregnancy and parenting\, as well as on her popular blog Jenny True: An Excruciatingly Personal Mommy Blog\, which was a finalist for the Mom 2.0 2019 People’s Choice Awards. Her columns have been featured in Elle\, Scary Mommy\, and the Longest Shortest Time podcast. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nAbout Catherine Newman\n\nCatherine Newman is the author of How to Be a Person (83\,000 copies in print)\, and  two parenting memoirs: Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness. She’s also the co-author of Stitch Camp. Newman is the etiquette columnist for Real Simple magazine and the editor of the James Beard Award–winning kids’ cooking magazine ChopChop\, and has contributed to publications including the New York Times\, O the Oprah Magazine\, and Parents. She lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts\, with her family. Visit her at catherinenewmanwriter.com. \nPraise For YOU LOOK TIRED\n\n“In You Look Tired\, Jenny Pritchett dishes out hilarious\, in-your-face advice to overwhelmed moms and moms-to-be. If you don’t have a trust fund\, a live-in nanny\, or the organizational skills to breastfeed elegantly while getting a pedicure\, you need this book. In the voice of her popular alter ego Jenny True\, Pritchett tells it like it really is\, not the way it would be if you were floating through parenthood on a cloud of maternal fairy dust. There is no maternal fairly dust\, people! Fortunately\, there is Jenny True.”—Michelle Richmond\, New York Times bestselling author of five novels and two award winning story collections\, mother of one\, and Jenny True fan. \n“Completely hilarious\, utterly frank\, thoughtful\, and wise—this book is a breath of fresh air.” —Meaghan O’Connell\, author of And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready \n“A must-have for moms-to-be.” —Bunmi Laditan\, author of The Honest Toddler: A Child’s Guide to Parenting
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-you-look-tired-an-excruciatingly-honest-guide-to-new-parenthood-with-author-jenny-true/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Spring Readings: Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 5\, 2021\, 2:00pm via Zoom \nIsmail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer\, a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, and a board member at the National Books Critics Circle. He’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, and a Simpson Family Literary Fellow. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like The New York Times\, Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. \nIn Spring 2021\, Muhammad is teaching English 361: Contemporary Nonfiction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-readings-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T160000
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SUMMARY:New Voice Series\, featuring Dan Lau\, with others tba
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending\, will be announced here \nWith emcee\, Carlos Quinteros III \nThe Poetry Center is delighted to announce the New Voice series\, initiated in Spring 2021 as an annual reading series that will pair a poet alum of SF State\, a current SF State graduate student poet in Creative Writing\, and a current undergraduate student poet at SF State (any major)\, to each read their work and engage in conversation. For the premier event\, poet Dan Lau has been invited to appear along with student poets on Wednesday May 5\, 4:00 pm Pacific Time. \nDetails tba \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, New Voice Series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-voice-series-featuring-dan-lau-with-others-tba/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Thalia Field and Anakana Schofield
DESCRIPTION:Anakana Schofield joins Thalia Field for a conversation about her latest experimental work on animal rights\, Personhood (New Directions). \nThis event is presented in conjunction with Community Bookstore in Park Slope. \nThis will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Personhood\nA remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of America’s foremost experimental writers \nWhether investigating refugee parrots\, indentured elephants\, the pathetic fallacy\, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the “invasive species crisis\,” Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection\, Bird Lovers\, Backyard\, Thalia Field’s essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous\, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals\, and other historical actors\, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status. \nAbout the writers\nThalia Field is Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University. Her most recent novel is Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction) from Solid Objects Press. Her three New Directions books are Point and Line (2000)\, Incarnate: Story Material (2004)\, and Bird Lovers\, Backyard (2010). \nAnakana Schofield is an award-winning Irish-Canadian writer of fiction\, essays\, and literary criticism. Her previous novels are Malarky (2012) and Martin John (2015). The UK edition of Bina was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. Schofield lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thalia-field-and-anakana-schofield/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T193000
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SUMMARY:Imagine Us\, the Swarm Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 5 | 6-7:30pm PST\nvia Zoom\nno fee \nKSW is partnering with the San Francisco Public Library for the launch of Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us\, The Swarm (Nightboat Books). In this collection of essays in verse\, Leung reconciles a familial history of violence and generational trauma across intersections of Asian American\, queer and gendered experiences. Following the death of the poet’s father\, Imagine Us\, The Swarm contemplates vengeance\, eschews forgiveness and cultivates a desire for healing beyond the reaches of this present life. Moving between the past and the present\, Leung imbues memories with something new to alter time and design a different future. \nThis launch party will feature a reading from Leung’s new book in addition to readings by Truong Tran\, Hari Alluri\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, Angie Sijun Lou and Addie Tsai. There will also be a raffle\, giveaways\, and trivia games woven into the night. \nMuriel Leung\n\nMuriel Leung is the author of Imagine Us\, The Swarm from Nightboat Books in 2021\, and Bone Confetti\, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, her writing can be found in The Baffler\, Cream City Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Collagist\, Fairy Tale Review and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman\, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Gold Line Press and the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. Leung co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour Podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective\, a feminist speakers bureau. Currently\, Leung is an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow at the University of Southern California where she is completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. \n\n\nHari Alluri\n\nHari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya). A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Fellowship for Poets of Color and recipient of grants from the Canada Council of the Arts\, his work appears recently or soon in the Watch Your Head (Coach House) and Pandemic Solidarity (Pluto) anthologies\, as well as Apogee\, Solstice\, Tinderbox\, Witness and elsewhere. Alluri’s collaborations lately are through BIPOC Writing Community\, Community Building Art Works\, The Cultch\, The Digital Sala\, Massy Books and Soft Cedar. \n\n\nJanice Sapigao\n\nJanice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a poet from San José\, CA. She is the author of two books of poetry\, microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2016) and like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books\, 2017). She is the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. \n\n\nAddie Tsai\n\nAddie Tsai (she/they) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color\, and teaches courses in literature\, creative writing\, dance and humanities at Houston Community College. She also teaches in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA in Creative Writing. They collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel\, among others. Addie holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. She is the author of the queer Asian young adult novel Dear Twin\, which made the 2021 Rainbow Book List\, and received press in Autostraddle\, Bustle\, Lambda Literary Review and others. Addie’s writing has been published in Foglifter\, VIDA Lit\, the Texas Review and elsewhere. They are the Fiction Co-Editor at Anomaly\, Staff Writer at Spectrum South and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy. \n\n\nTruong Tran\n\nTruong Tran is a poet ad visual artist. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at California Institute of Integral Studies\, The Telegraph Hill Gallery\, SOMArts\, Mina Dresden Gallery\, and The Peninsula Museum of Art. His books include\, Placing The Accents\, The Book of Perceptions\, Dust and Conscience\, Within The Margin\, Four Letter Words\, 100 Words and the much anticipated Book of the Other (October 2021). He is currently The Adjunct Professor of Poetry at Mills College where he teaches graduate courses about poetics and the crossing of writing and visual art. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAngie Sijun Lou\n\nAngie Sijun Lou is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Poetry Northwest\, FENCE\, Black Warrior Review\, the Adroit Journal\, the Asian American Literary Review\, Hyphen\, the Margins and others. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz\, and a calculus instructor at San Quentin State Prison. She has received fellowships and support from the Vermont Studio Center\, Millay Colony and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. She lives in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imagine-us-the-swarm-book-launch/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Renée Watson\, Ways to Grow Love
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop is thrilled to welcome award-winning author Renée Watson for an online event celebrating Ways to Grow Love\, the newest title in her Ramona-esque series for young readers\, starring Ryan Hart and her loveable family. \nRegister for this free event by clicking here!This is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nRyan Hart and her family are back in another installment of stories about a Black girl finding her way and her voice as she grows through change and challenges. In this book\, Ryan finds herself wishing for lots of things—like for her new sister to be born healthy\, for her new recipes to turn out right\, for that camping trip to go better than she fears! And of course Ryan is facing these new challenges and new experiences in her classic style—with a bright outlook and plenty of spirit! \nInspired to write her own version of Ramona\, Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson continues her delightful series. \nRenée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author. Her novel\, Piecing Me Together\, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include Ways to Make Sunshine\, Some Places More Than Others\, This Side of Home\, What Momma Left Me\, Betty Before X\, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz\, and Watch Us Rise\, co-written with Ellen Hagan\, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem’s Little Blackbird\, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée lives in New York City. www.reneewatson.net; @harlemportland (Instagram); @reneewauthor (Twitter)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-renee-watson-ways-to-grow-love/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Green Rabbits Glowing at the End of the World: Annalee Newitz and Nathaniel Rich on What Happens When Civilizations Fail
DESCRIPTION:Annalee Newitz\, Nathaniel Rich\, Bonnie Tsui \nMore than 150 years ago\, long before intimations of a warming planet had begun\, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a prescient statement: “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” While some of us might not consider our current culture to be terribly civilized\, one thing is clear: we’ve been propelling our own species\, along with millions of other life forms\, toward extinction as a result of human-generated climate change. \nTo probe our own “end times\,” we’ve brought together two highly respected journalists who also happen to be speculative fiction writers. Annalee Newitz is an award-winning novelist (The Future of Another Timeline) and a science\, technology and culture writer whose fascinating new book\, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age\, explores the rise and fall of four urban-centered civilizations\, from medieval Angkor in Cambodia to the indigenous metropolis Cahokia in present-day Missouri. \nFast forward from ancient times to 2018\, when the New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to journalist Nathaniel Rich’s chronicle of the world’s failures to listen to scientists who began seriously sounding the alarm about climate change in 1979. That article became the book Losing Earth\, which Rich has now followed up with the deeply reported\, riveting Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade. Where do we go from here? Scientists are no longer asking how we can return to the world we’ve lost—we’ve irrevocably changed every inch of our planet—but what we can create in its place in order to survive. Their answers rival the wildest science fiction. \nAlbert Camus (The Plague) wrote\, “the purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Moderated by Bonnie Tsui\, author of Why We Swim\, this conversation with two leading writers will give you a blast from the (long lost) past along with a staggering vision of the future. \nGet your Ticket
URL:https://litseen.com/event/green-rabbits-glowing-at-the-end-of-the-world-annalee-newitz-and-nathaniel-rich-on-what-happens-when-civilizations-fail/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\nLitquake is excited to welcome Natalie Baszile\, author of the New York Times bestseller Queen Sugar (now a series on OWN network) to our Seismic Salon series! Natalie has made the leap from fiction to nonfiction in her newest book\, We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers Land and Legacy\, which is published April 6. This anthology of poetry\, essays\, and interviews examines Black people’s connection to the American land\, from Emancipation to today. Natalie has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA\, and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of 2014\, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Her nonfiction work has appeared in Lenny Letter\, The Bitter Southerner\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The Rumpus\, and a number of anthologies. \nBuy Natalie Baszile’s books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-natalie-baszile/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Michelle Zauner & Bowen Yang
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Zauner is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp (2016) and Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017). In a new memoir\, Crying in H Mart\, Zauner reflects on her experience being raised by a Korean immigrant in the Pacific Northwest\, and particularly her memories related to food. When her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and Zauner moved back to Oregon to care for her\, she was forced to reckon with her identity and upbringing. Zauner writes about the process of beginning to chase down her mother’s history\, culture\, and the flavors of Korea to re-gain the feeling of home in the wake of her loss. \nBowen Yang is a featured player on Saturday Night Live\, where he wrote for one season before moving on-screen. He can also be seen recurring on Comedy Central’s Awkwafina is Nora From Queens\, as well as in the TV shows Broad City\, High Maintenance\, Jon Glaser Loves Gear\, and the upcoming series Girls5eva. He is the co-host of the popular comedy podcast “Las Culturistas\,” along with fellow comedian Matt Rogers. This past year\, Yang was featured in TIME as one of “23 People Who Are Changing What’s Funny Right Now\,”as well as one of their TIME 100 NEXT: Artists\, and was featured in this year’s Out100 list. \nPhoto Credits: \nBarbora Mrazkova \nMary Ellen Matthews/NBC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-zauner-bowen-yang/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kate Durbin and Alex Dimitrov
DESCRIPTION:Kate Durbin celebrates her new collection of poetry \nHOARDERS \npublished by Wave Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nIn Hoarders\, Durbin deftly traces the associations between hoarding and collective US traumas rooted in consumerism and the environment. Each poem is a prismatic portrait of a person and the beloved objects they hoard\, from Barbies to snow globes to vintage Las Vegas memorabilia to rotting fruit to plants. Using reality television as a medium\, Durbin conjures an uncanny space of attachments that reflects a cultural moment back to the reader in ways that are surreal and tender. In the absurdist tradition of Kafka and Beckett\, Hoarders ultimately embraces with sympathy the difficulty and complexity of the human condition. \n“Though the swift-moving spectacle of the television show invites viewers to cast easy judgment on these hoarders\, Durbin employs poetry’s slower speed to show a more complicated picture. Instead of using [these stories] to make us feel better about ourselves for not being hoarders\, she indicts aspects of American culture we all participate in—religion\, capitalism—and reveals our complicity\, all the while dropping a lot of sight gags in the process.” —Rich Smith\, The Stranger  \nKate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist. Her books of poetry include E! Entertainment\, The Ravenous Audience\, and ABRA\, which won the 2017 international Turn On Literature Prize. Durbin was the Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence in Brisbane\, Australia in 2015. Her art and writing have been featured in the New York Times\, Art in America\, Artforum\, the Believer\, BOMB\, poets.org\, the American Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. She has shown her artwork nationally and internationally at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle\, The PULSE Art Fair in Miami\, MOCA Los Angeles\, the SPRING/BREAK Art Show in Los Angeles\, peer to space in Berlin\, and more. \nAlex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poems\, including the upcoming Love and Other Poems\, as well as the chapbook American Boys. His work has been published in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, and Poetry. He was the former senior content editor at the Academy of American Poets\, where he edited Poem-A-Day and American Poets. He has taught creative writing at Princeton University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College\, among other institutions. With Dorothea Lasky\, he is the co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. Dimitrov lives in New York.
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