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SUMMARY:George Lakey Workshop with Kazu Haga OFFSITE
DESCRIPTION:George Lakey Workshop with Kazu Haga OFFSITE conducts a workshop based on his most recent book\, How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning\, with Kazu Haga\, founder of the East Point Peace Academy and author of the forthcoming Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. \n\n\n\n\nRegister at eastpointpeace.org/howwewin or call 510.500.7853. Sliding scale $20-$80. Wheelchair accessible. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, February 2\, 2020 – 2:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n“It’s a good time to take a fresh look at what has worked in times of trouble\, and share what we have learned about successful campaigning that gives hope for the future. These times call for new and creative tactics in order to make changes to the status quo\,” says activist and sociologist Lakey. \nGeorge Lakey has been on the forefront of social change for decades\, leading social change workshops on five continents and heading projects on local\, national and international levels. How We Win details how we can achieve needed social change. His previous book\, Viking Economics\, discusses how Scandinavia has instituted successful social change–and how we can too. \nIn addition to his work as founder and coordinator of the East Point Peace Academy\, Kazu Haga is the author of Healing Resistance and a core member of the Ahimsa Collective and a trainer in Kingian Nonviolence\, a philosophy developed out of teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. \nA second event\, “How to Make Polarization Work for Progress\,” with George Lakey\, follows on Monday\, February 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\, 6501 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland. \nThese events are co-sponsored by the Social Justice Committee\, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists and Social and Environmental Action Committee of the Berkeley Society of friends. \nBooks will be available for sale at the events. \nFor further information contact julianna@lmi.net or 510.612.5181. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBerkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists\n2924 Cedar St.\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94709
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joan Frank launches two prize-winning new books: Where You're All Going\, a quartet of novellas\, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction\, and Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place 
DESCRIPTION:Joan Frank Doubleheader! Joan Frank launches two prize-winning new books: Where You’re All Going\, a quartet of novellas\, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction\, and Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place (winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize).\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of either book in advance by speaking to a bookseller or online by clicking on the covers below. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, February 20\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Where You’re All Going\, Frank invites readers into the inner lives of characters bewildered by love\, grief\, and inexplicable affinities. A young couple navigates a strange friendship and unexpected pregnancy; a woman recalls the bizarre fallout of her former lover’s fame; a lonely widow is drawn to an arrogant young man; a wealthy spiritual seeker grapples with what wealth cannot affect. Witty and humane\, Frank taps the riches of the novella form as she writes of loneliness\, friendship\, loss\, and the filaments of intimacy that connect us through time. \n“Funny\, edgy\, poignant and true….You’ll feel more alive when you read these stories\, and hold closer to you the people you cherish.” \nThrough the author’s travels in Europe and the United States\, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry\, how politics infuse geography\, media’s depictions of an idea of home\, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word “hotel\,” and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate\, inhabited place—the “vastest real estate we know\,” with a “stunningly short” lease. \n“A bold\, engaging disquisition on the perils and promises of travel: both cranky and wise\, worldly and cultivated\, humorous and rueful\, its every sentence sparkles. All in all\, it is thoroughly entertaining\, a sophisticated pleasure.”—Phillip Lopate \nJoan Frank is the author of seven books of literary fiction and a book of collected essays. Her last novel\, All the News I Need\, won the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Her book of essays\, Because You Have To: A Writing Life\, won the Silver ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award. A MacDowell Fellow and recipient of many honors\, Frank also reviews literary fiction and nonfiction. She lives with her husband\, playwright Bob Duxbury\, in the North Bay. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Tallent launches Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Tallent launches Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism\, her bold and brilliant exploration of the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich\, dramatic\, and constantly surprising personal life. \n\n\n\n\n “One of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”–Sigrid Nunez \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Scratched by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nScratched is an intimate account of the uses a child\, and the adult she becomes\, will find for perfectionism and the role it will play in every part of her life. Elizabeth Tallent’s story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington\, D.C.\, when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter\, shocking behavior that baffles the nurses. Imagining her own mother’s perfectionist ideal at this critical moment\, Tallent moves back and forth in time\, juxtaposing moments in the past with the present in this innovative and spellbinding narrative. \nTallent traces her journey from her early years in which she perceived herself as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family\,” to her adulthood\, when perfectionism came to affect everything. In the decade between 27 and 37\, she published five literary books with Knopf and her short stories appeared in The New Yorker. But this extraordinary start to her career is followed by twenty-two years of silence. She wrote\, or rather published\, nothing at all. Why? Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. \nTallent’s early publications secure her a coveted teaching job at Stanford University. As she toggles between Palo Alto and the Mendocino coast where she lives\, raises her son Gabriel\, and pursues an important psychoanalysis\, she grapples with the perfectionism that has always been home to her. Eventually\, she finds love and acceptance in the most unlikely place\, and finally accepts an “as is” relationship with herself and others. \nHer final triumph is the writing of this memoir\, filled with wit\, humor\, and heart\, and unlike any other you will read. Scratched is a brave book that repeatedly searches for the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence. \nElizabeth Tallent\, author of a novel and four story collections including Mendocino Fire\, has appeared in The Threepenny Review\, The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, Tin House\, and ZYZZYVA as well as in the Best American Short Stories\, Best American Essays\, O. Henry Prize\, and Pushcart Prize award anthologies. She teaches in Stanford’s Creative Writing Program and lives with her wife\, an antiques dealer\, on the Mendocino Coast.
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Jewell  presents The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants. 
DESCRIPTION:In this beautiful and empowering book\, Jennifer Jewell—host of public radio’s award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place—introduces 75 inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany\, floral design\, landscape architecture\, farming\, herbalism\, and food justice\, these influencers are creating change from the ground up. \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Earth in Her Hands by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfiled women include flower farmer Erin Benzakein; codirector of Soul Fire Farm Leah Penniman; plantswoman Flora Grubb; edible and cultural landscape designer Leslie Bennett; Caribbean-American writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid; soil scientist Elaine Ingham; floral designer Amy Merrick\, and many more. Rich with personal stories and insights\, Jewell’s portraits reveal a devotion that transcends age\, locale\, and background\, reminding us of the profound role of green growing things in our world—and our lives.
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