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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe East Bay launch for her story collection\, Lava Falls.
DESCRIPTION:The spirited\, heart-driven people who populate these stories find surprising pockets of hope as they scrabble for ways to believe in themselves and the world. A woman returns to the Alaskan cabin of her survivalist childhood\, full of misgivings and memories. A trip to Yellowstone sparks a crisis for a man who feels kinship with the wolves he glimpses there. Nursing painful pasts\, sisters take a cruise together to Antarctica. A runaway finds salvation from violence in her own singing. And in the title novella\, a Grand Canyon rafting expedition profoundly changes the lives of six women. \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of The Evolution of Love\, A Thin Bright Line\, The Big Bang Symphony\, and The Ice Cave. She lives in Berkeley. \n“From Antarctica to suburbia to the ancient past and a post-apocalyptic future\, these tales of kick-ass women adventurers and survivor girls are big-hearted\, breathtaking\, and profound. Reading Lava Falls is like meeting an animal in the wild: I was rapt\, unable to turn away\, with no idea what would happen next.”—Micah Perks\, author of What Becomes Us \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Lava Falls by speaking to a bookseller or ordering via our website. \n 
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180928T153000
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SUMMARY:Sol Force Alpha Kale Book Release
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the release of Aaron Southerland’s third graphic novel\, SolForce: Alpha Kale! All ages welcome. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAaron Southerland\, from Brooklyn\, NY\, currently works as a freelance art teacher & cartoonist in the Bay Area! He is the creator of the graphic novels Strawberry Dough & SolForce. More at www.baomerch.com.
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LOCATION:Berkeley Public Library\, Claremont Branch\, 2940 Benvenue Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180928T193000
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SUMMARY:Christopher Woods presents Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World's Best New Gardens
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Woods presents Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens\, a sumptuously illustrated survey and the perfect armchair travel guide to 50 of the most innovative modern gardens from around the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Gardenlust\, adventurous biophiliac Christopher Woods takes readers on a worldwide tour that goes beyond the palace grounds of centuries past to transport you to places of botanical wonder. From a garden defined by shape and light in Marrakech to an urban forest in Tokyo\, with each stop of this tour Woods curates a collection of contemporary gardens that inspire wanderlust not just for their exotic locations but for the people\, plants\, and stories that give these spaces life.\n\n\n\n\n\nWoods has been immersed in the worlds of horticulture\, design\, and garden-making for over 30 years. He honed his eye for innovative design while developing the Pennsylvania estate Chanticleer into one of the most revered and inspiring public gardens in the world. In the Introduction he writes\, “Several themes run through the stories that follow\, threads that make an interwoven pattern. No garden touches on just one—most have all of them.” With five criteria as his compass points—Beauty\, Nature\, People and Plants\, Nativity\, and Urbanization—Woods shows us a global vision for modern garden excellence. \nTo pair with these lust-worthy gardens\, the book itself is a work of art. The artful photographs illuminate the magnificence of some of today’s biggest public gardens\, like China’s Xi’an Expo Park\, while capturing even the tiniest details of the pendulous bleeding hearts growing in Carrie Preston’s home garden in the Netherlands. \nGardens beyond one’s wildest dreams are out there\, beckoning to be found. Gardenlust grants an all-access pass to that wild world\, where artists’ chosen medium are plants and the art is an absolutely immersive experience. A word of warning—once caught\, this case of botanical wanderlust may take you on an international adventure of epic proportions. Let Gardenlust be your guide. \n\n\n\n\n“A beautiful and relaxing tour through some of the loveliest gardens in the world! The author’s original images provide a fine taste of their gorgeous plants and the creativity used in organizing them.”–Peter H. Raven\, President Emeritus at Missouri Botanical Garden \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Gardenlust in advance by speaking to a bookseller or via our website. \n\n\n\n\nChristopher Woods began his gardening life at the Royal Botanical Gardens\, Kew. He was director and chief designer of Chanticleer and has served as vice president for horticulture at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden; director of the Van Dusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver\, Canada; executive director of the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden; and director of both the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and Meadowbrook Farm. He lives in California.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180929T160000
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SUMMARY:Ages 8-12 Alex Gino
DESCRIPTION:Launch for You Don’t Know Everything\, Jilly P!\, a novel that carries a strong social message as twelve-year-old Jilly learns how to support the marginalized people in her life when her sister is born Deaf and Jilly makes friends with Profound\, a black\, Deaf boy she meets online. Gino tackles powerful issues with grace and thoughfulness. An ASL Interpreter will be provided.\n\n\n\n\n“…Its thoughtful handling of characters and dynamics offers fodder for further discussion about privilege in all its forms.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“[An] engrossing and satisfying read…Necessary and rewarding.”—Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of You Don’t Know Everything\, Jilly P!by speaking to a bookseller or via our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJilly thinks she’s figured out how life works—but when her sister Emma is born deaf\, she realizes how much she still has to learn. A big fantasy reader\, Jilly connects online with another fan\, Derek\, who is a deaf Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for advice on how to advocate for her little sister\, but doesn’t always know the best way to ask and makes some mistakes along the way. Jilly has to step back to learn to be an ally\, a sister\, and a friend\, understanding that life works in different ways for different people\, and that being open to change can make you change in the best possible ways. \nAlex Gino loves glitter\, ice cream\, gardening\, awe-ful puns\, and stories that reflect the diversity and complexity of being alive. George was their first novel\, a winner of the Children’s Stonewall Award\, the Lambda Literary Award\, and the Children’s Choice Book Awards\, among a host of others. George was also featured on several Best of the Year lists. For more about Alex\, please visit alexgino.com.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T193000
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vasquez
DESCRIPTION:Juan Gabriel Vasquez\n\n\n\n\nreads from The Shape of the Ruins\, his highly anticipated\, deeply personal masterpiece that is being heralded as the most ambitious novel of his career. \n“A highly sophisticated\, fast-moving political thriller set in Colombia and an excellent read.”–Alan Furst \n“One of the great novels of recent years.”–Mario Vargas Llosa \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Shape of the Ruins by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 2\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy\, political obsession\, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician\, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories\, assassinations\, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. \nThis novel explores the darkest moments of a country’s past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read\, beautiful and profound\, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal\, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories. \nJuan Gabriel Vásquez’s previous books include the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner and national bestseller\, The Sound of Things Falling\, as well as the award-winning Reputations\, The Informers\, The Secret History of Costaguana\, and the story collection\, Lovers on All Saints’ Day. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-eight languages worldwide. After sixteen years in France\, Belgium\, and Spain\, he now lives in Bogotá. \n 
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T193000
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SUMMARY:Miriam Pawel in Conversation with T.J. Stiles discussing The Browns of California
DESCRIPTION:Miriam Pawel in Conversation with T.J. Stiles\ndiscussing The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation. \n“A remarkable book–a generational biography of a political dynasty\, ranging from the California Gold Rush to the presidency of Donald Trump. She recounts the pivotal governorship of Pat Brown and the even more significant career of his son Jerry with assured prose and a keen sense of historical context. This is the engrossing saga of complicated family at the center of American political life for the last sixty years.”–T.J. Stiles\, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Custer’s Trials and The First Tycoon. \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Browns of California by speaking to a bookseller or via our website. \nEven in the land of reinvention\, the story is exceptional: Pat Brown\, the beloved father who presided over California during an era of unmatched expansion; Jerry Brown\, the cerebral son who became the youngest governor in modern times–and then returned three decades later as the oldest. \nIn The Browns of California\, journalist and scholar Miriam Pawel weaves a narrative history that spans four generations\, from August Schuckman\, the Prussian immigrant who crossed the Plains in 1852 and settled on a northern California ranch\, to his great-grandson Jerry Brown\, who reclaimed the family homestead one hundred forty years later. Through the prism of their lives\, we gain an essential understanding of California and an appreciation of its importance. \nThe magisterial story is enhanced by dozens of striking photos\, many published for the first time. This book gives new insights to those steeped in California history\, offers a corrective for those who confuse stereotypes and legend for fact\, and opens new vistas for readers familiar with only the sketchiest outlines of a place habitually viewed from afar with a mix of envy and awe\, disdain\, and fascination. \nMiriam Pawel is the author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and winner of the California Book Award\, and The Union of Their Dreams—Power\, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement. She is a Pulitzer-Prize winning editor and reporter who spent twenty-five years at Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Southern California. \nT.J. Stiles is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America\, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt\, and Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. 
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T210000
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SUMMARY:Evening for Educators of grades K-5
DESCRIPTION:If you are a local educator\, you are cordially invited to join us for a special Educator Evening celebrating non-fiction books\, reading\, and you. The event is free but we ask that you RSVP via Eventbrite (https://mrsdseducatornight.eventbrite.com) so we can plan for attendance and refreshments. \n\n\n\n\nWe’ve created a fun-filled\, information-packed evening just for elementary school educators\, grades K-5: \n\n7 non-fiction authors will present their books–each author will pair her book(s) with a fiction book. We look forward to welcoming: Patricia Newman\, Jeanne Walker Harvey\, Christy Hale\, Lynn Fulton\, Pamela S. Turner\, and Laura Atkins.\nMrs. Dalloway’s kids’ specialists will preview our favorite fall releases.\nWe’ll have lots of giveaways.\nMingle with local authors to arrange school visits.\nNetwork and make new friends\n\nLight refreshments and wine will be served. \nWe always offer a 20% discount to our partner school educators for books used in the classroom. Sign up today by contacting Ann Whaling (ann@mrsdalloways.com). \nBring your educator friends!
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T150000
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SUMMARY:Georgia Freedman Come meet the author of Cooking South of the Clouds
DESCRIPTION:Georgia Freedman\n\n\n\n\nCome meet the author of Cooking South of the Clouds: Recipes and Stories from China’s Yunnan Province. \n“More than a cookbook\, it’s an intimate journey through culinary traditions almost unknown in the West. Josh Wand’s photos of the region’s countryside\, villages\, markets\, and dishes paint a stunning portrait of Yunnanese cuisine and life. . . . Deserves a place of honor in every collection of Chinese cookbooks.”–Grace Young\, James Beard Award-winning author of Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge \n\n\n\n\n\n\nChina’s Yunnan Province is the most geographically\, biologically\, and ethnically diverse region in China. Stretching from the Himalayan plateau to the subtropics\, the province is home to thousands of species of plants and animals as well as twenty-four of China’s minority groups. As a result\, Yunnan is one of the most culinary interesting and delicious places on earth\, with a wide variety of cuisines and flavors all packed into one small province.\nCooking South of the Clouds offers a tour of Yunnan’s many foods\, from the famed Crossing the Bridge Noodles to dishes like spiced chicken grilled in banana leaves\, which will introduce cooks to a side of Chinese cooking still relatively unknown outside of the country itself.\nEach chapter covers a different area featuring its classic recipes such as Tibetan momo dumplings from the north\, grilled chicken with chiles and fresh herbs and the famed “crossing-the-bridge” noodles from the south\, fried rice with ham\, potatoes\, and peas from the east\, and roasted eggplant salad with tomatoes and herbs from the west\, near the Burmese border.\nComplete with profiles of local cooks\, artisans\, and farmers\, as well as breath-taking location photography\, this book takes you on an unforgettable journey through the land of Shangri-La and presents a whole new world of flavors. \nGeorgia Freedman is a freelance journalist and editor based in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, Afar\, Martha Stewart Living\, Rodale’s Organic Life\, Roads and Kingdoms\, and other food and travel publications including Saveur magazine\, where she was previously the managing editor. Georgia has been traveling to China to learn about the country’s food and culture since 2000\, and she lived in Yunnan Province for two years. She returns to Yunnan regularly with her husband\, Josh Wand\, and their young daughter\, sharing stories about their travels at ChinaSouthoftheClouds.com.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T193000
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SUMMARY:Jaap Robben in Conversation with Jeroen Dewulf reads from his award-winning novel\, You Have Me to Love
DESCRIPTION:Jaap Robben in Conversation with Jeroen Dewulf\n\n\n\n\nreads from his award-winning novel\, You Have Me to Love\, an unforgettable story about lost childhood innocence\, isolation\, guilt and mother-son relationships. \n“An intense and dramatic novel filled with meticulous use of detail and a forensic psychological accuracy. Its power comes from the fierce energy of the narrative structure\, the way of handling silence and pain\, and the ability to confront the darkest areas of experience with clear-eyed sympathy and care. Jaap Robben handles delicate\, dangerous material with subtlety and sympathy\, but also with a visionary sense of truth that is masterly and unforgettable.”–Colm Tóibín \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of You Have Me to Love by speaking to a bookseller or ordering via our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMikael lives with his parents on an island somewhere between Scotland and Norway. One day Mikael’s father saves him from drowning in the ocean\, but is himself thrown against the rocks by a wave and disappears under water. In shock and unable to speak\, Mikael blocks out the memory of what took place\, silently joining his mother in the search for his missing father. As Mikael’s mother realizes her husband has drowned\, the relationship between her and Mikael transforms: she slowly starts to unravel\, forcing the son to replace his father in every possible way. \nJaap Robben is a popular Dutch poet\, playwright\, actor\, and children’s author. You Have Me to Love is his first novel. It received glowing reviews in the Dutch press and won the prize for the best Dutch debut novel and the 2014 Dutch Booksellers Award. \nJeroen Dewulf is Director of Dutch Studies at UC Berkeley.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T193000
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Meyers presents Resurrections: Authors\, Heroes--and a Spy
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Meyers presents Resurrections: Authors\, Heroes–and a Spy\, portraits of writers and artists including Ian Watt\, Paul Theroux\, James Salter\, and Anthony Blunt.\n\n\n\n\n“ Intellectually stimulating . . . a portrait of the artist in portraits of other artists.”–Kirkus Reviews \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Resurrections by speaking to a bookseller or ordering via our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this new book\, the prolific biographer Meyers brings to life a set of extraordinary writers\, painters\, and literary adventurers who turned their lives into art. Meyers knew nine of these figures\, in some cases intimately\, while five others he admires and regrets never meeting. As he writes in the preface\, “The chapters in this book represent in miniature my career as a life-writer. My biographies have always been driven by fascination with the source of artistic creativity\, with people who wrote or painted and with the worlds they inhabited.”
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/jeffrey-meyers-presents-resurrections-authors-heroes-and-a-spy/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T190000
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SUMMARY:Fox Butterfield presents In My Father's House
DESCRIPTION:Fox Butterfield presents In My Father’s House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family\, a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family–specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.\n\n\n\n\n“A spellbinding book\, brilliant and bone-chilling. In My Father’s House will change the way we look at what makes a criminal.”–Linda Fairstein\, author of Deadfall \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of In My Father’s House by speaking to a bookseller or ordering on our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world’s prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration\, Butterfield argues\, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime\, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family\, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant legacy of criminality passed from parents to children\, grandchildren\, and even great-grandchildren. Examining the long history of the Bogles\, a white family\, Butterfield offers a revelatory look at criminality that forces us to disentangle race from our ideas about crime and\, in doing so\, strikes at the heart of our deepest stereotypes. And he makes clear how these new insights are leading to fundamentally different efforts at reform. With his empathic insight and profound knowledge of criminology\, Butterfield offers us both the indelible tale of one family’s transgressions and tribulations\, and an entirely new way to understand crime in America.\n\n\nFox Butterfield is the author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea\, which won the National Book Award\, and All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence. He was a member of the New York Times reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its publication of the Pentagon Papers\, and served as a bureau chief for the newspaper in Boston\, Saigon\, Tokyo\, Hong Kong\, and Beijing–where he opened the Times bureau in 1979. Most recently he was a national correspondent for the Times\, covering crime and violence. He lives in Portland\, Oregon.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181027T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181027T110000
DTSTAMP:20180928T205458Z
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SUMMARY:Leif Enger celebrating the publication of his wonderful new novel\, Virgil Wander
DESCRIPTION:Leif Enger OFFSITE @ Rialto Cinemas Elmwood\n\n\n\n\ncelebrating the publication of his wonderful new novel\, Virgil Wander\, much of which takes place in and around a beloved old movie theater not unlike our own here in the Elmwood. There will be a special screening of Cinema Paradiso in connection with the reading and signing. Buy your tickets\, with or without book\, through Eventbrite: https://leifengermrsds.eventbrite.com or in the store. We will have additional copies of Virgil Wander and Peace Like a River for sale at the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMidwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life\, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town\, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals–from Rune\, a twinkling\, pipe-smoking\, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine\, the reserved\, enchanting wife of the vanished man\, to Tom\, a journalist and Virgil’s oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. \nWith intelligent humor and captivating whimsy\, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents\, who\, for reasons of choice or circumstance\, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies\, fishing\, necking in parked cars\, playing baseball and falling in love\, Virgil Wander is a swift\, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a “formidably gifted” (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller. \nLeif Enger was raised in Osakis\, Minnesota\, and worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his bestselling debut novel Peace Like a River\, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award and was one of the Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine’s Best Books of the Year. His second novel\, So Brave\, Young\, and Handsome\, was also a national bestseller\, and a Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award Honor Book for Fiction. He and his wife Robin live in Minnesota.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/leif-enger-celebrating-the-publication-of-his-wonderful-new-novel-virgil-wander/
LOCATION:Rialto Cinemas Elmwood\, 2966 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T193000
DTSTAMP:20181028T233831Z
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SUMMARY:Roshi Joan Halifax OFFSITE discusses Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
DESCRIPTION:Roshi Joan Halifax OFFSITE discusses Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet\, with Gaetano Maida\, sponsored by KPFA\, St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, and Mindful Schools.\n\n\n\n\nAdvance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 Books Inc/Berkeley\, Pegasus (3 sites)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloway’s. East Bay Books\, $15 door\, Wheelchair Access \n\n\n\n\n\n\nStanding at the Edge is an evocative examination of how we can respond to suffering\, live our fullest lives\, and remain open to the full spectrum of our human experience. \nJoan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian\, a social activist\, an anthropologist\, and as a Buddhist teacher. Over many decades\, she has also collaborated with neuroscientists\, clinicians\, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. Through her unusual background\, she developed an understanding of how our greatest challenges can become the most valuable source of our wisdom–and how we can transform our experience of suffering into the power of compassion for the benefit of others. \nRecounting the experiences of caregivers\, activists\, humanitarians\, politicians\, parents\, and teachers\, incorporating the wisdom of Zen traditions and mindfulness practices\, and rooted in Halifax’s groundbreaking research on compassion\, Standing at the Edge is destined to become a contemporary classic. A powerful guide on how to find the freedom we seek for others and ourselves\, it is a book that will serve us all. \nRoshi Joan Halifax\, Ph.D.\, is a Buddhist teacher\, Zen priest and anthropologist. She is Founder\, Abbot\, and Head Teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. She was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress and is currently the founder of Upaya Prison Project and the Nomads Clinic in Nepal. \nGaetano Kazuo Maida is the founder and executive director of Buddhist Film Foundation\, which has produced its International Buddhist Film \nFestival in ten cities on three continents. A photographer and filmmaker\, his credits include: producer/director of Peace Is Every Step—The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/roshi-joan-halifax-offsite-discusses-standing-at-the-edge-finding-freedom-where-fear-and-courage-meet/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T193000
DTSTAMP:20181028T234638Z
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SUMMARY:Vijaya Nagarajan presents Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women\, Ritual and Ecology in India--An Exploration of the Kolam
DESCRIPTION:Vijaya Nagarajan presents Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women\, Ritual and Ecology in India–An Exploration of the Kolam\, the first comprehensive book in English on the kolam\, a ritual rice flour drawing created by Tamil women.\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Feeding a Thousand Souls by speaking to a bookseller or ordering via our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam\, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour\, on the thresholds of homes\, businesses and temples. This thousand-year-old ritual welcomes and honors Lakshmi\, the goddess of wealth and alertness\, and Bhudevi\, the goddess of the earth. Created by hand with great skill\, artistry\, and mathematical precision\, the kolam disappears in a few hours\, borne away by passing footsteps and hungry insects. \nThis book examines the kolam’s significance in historical\, mathematical\, ecological\, anthropological\, and literary contexts. The culmination of Vijaya Nagarajan’s many years of research and writing on this exacting ritual practice\, Feeding a Thousand Souls celebrates the experiences\, thoughts\, and voices of the Tamil women who keep this tradition alive. \nVijaya Nagarajan is an associate professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. She lives in Berkeley.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/vijaya-nagarajan-presents-feeding-a-thousand-souls-women-ritual-and-ecology-in-india-an-exploration-of-the-kolam/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181124T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181124T210000
DTSTAMP:20181028T234835Z
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SUMMARY:Indies First/Small Business Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the power of Independent and Small in this post-Thanksgiving shopping tradition.\n\n\n\n\nIndies First\, held on Small Business Saturday\, brings together authors\, readers\, and publishers in support of independent bookstores. Authors and local celebrities volunteer at events across the country\, and publishers offer special terms on books and exclusives. Indies First is a day dedicated to supporting the local businesses that help communities thrive. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, November 24\, 2018 – 10:00am to 9:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAward-winning author Jason Reynolds is serving\, once again\, as the 2018 Indies First spokesperson. To support his mission of providing children in low-income communities with access to books that reflect their own experiences\, the American Booksellers Association and American Express are working together with Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing to make available 20\,000 special edition copies of Ghost\, the first book in Reynolds’ New York Times bestselling Track series\, this holiday season.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/indies-first-small-business-saturday/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181204T193000
DTSTAMP:20181028T235040Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Lynch reads Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for fruitcake and cheer in this annual Mrs. Dalloway’s tradition.\n\n\n\n\nFirst published in 1956\, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Capote about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for fans young and old\, a “gem of a holiday story.” (School Library Journal\, starred review). \nSeven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin\, Miss Sook Falk: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals. \nReader Thomas Lynch is an actor and longtime resident of the Elmwood.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/thomas-lynch-reads-truman-capotes-a-christmas-memory/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181210T190000
DTSTAMP:20181205T063241Z
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SUMMARY:Tom Barbash OFFSITE at Baker & Commons (right next door)
DESCRIPTION:Launch party for his terrific new novel The Dakota Winters\, an evocative and wildly absorbing story about the Winters\, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination. \n\n\n\n\n“Deft\, funny\, touching\, and sharply observed\, a marvel of tone\, and a skillful evocation of a dark passage in the history of New York City\, when all the fearful ironies of the world we live in now first came stalking into view.”–Michael Chabon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter\, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria\, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father\, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter\, is there to greet him\, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long\, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy’s stalled career\, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York\, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics\, to the Hollywood Hills\, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle\, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson\, Ted and Joan Kennedy\, and a seagoing John Lennon. \nBut the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father’s professional and spiritual reinvention\, the more he questions his own path\, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond. By turns hilarious and poignant\, The Dakota Winters is a family saga\, a page-turning social novel\, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City and the country at large. \nTom Barbash is the award-winning author of three books as well as numerous reviews\, stories essays\, and articles for publications including McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, the Believer\, Narrative Magazine\, One Story\, StoryQuarterly\, Zyzzyva\, the Missouri Review\, Story Magazine\, Men’s Journal\, ESPN the Magazine\, BookForum\, and the New York Times. He teaches at California College of the Arts. \n 
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/tom-barbash-offsite-at-baker-commons-right-next-door/
LOCATION:Baker & Commons\, 2900 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190122T193000
DTSTAMP:20181205T063926Z
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SUMMARY:Tessa Hadley returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to read from her new novel\, Late in the Day.
DESCRIPTION:“Perceptive\, finely wrought….Hadley is a writer of the first order\, and this novel gives her the opportunity to explore\, with profound incisiveness and depth\, the inevitable changes inherent to long-lasting marriages.”– Publishers Weekly \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Late in the Day by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this latest from Hadley. Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later\, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer’s evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead.\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the wake of this profound loss\, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach\, with his generous\, grounded spirit\, was the irreplaceable one they couldn’t afford to lose. Inconsolable\, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer\, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships\, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past\, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness. \nLate in the Day explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships\, to expose how\, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives\, lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters’ thoughts and interactions\, Tessa Hadley once again “crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural.” (Washington Post) \nTessa Hadley is the author of five highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home\, Everything Will Be All Right; The Master Bedroom; The London Train\, and Clever Girl\, and two short story collections\, Sunstroke and Married Love. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. She lives in London.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/tessa-hadley-returns-to-mrs-dalloways-to-read-from-her-new-novel-late-in-the-day/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190127T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190127T150000
DTSTAMP:20181205T063832Z
CREATED:20181205T063831Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg discussing Stone's new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater
DESCRIPTION:“a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. . . . both marvelously inventive and deeply humane.”–Ann Packer \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Hungry Ghost Theater by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between hunger and art\, duty and desire\, and\nloss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members\nof their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. The adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. \nSarah Stone’s is the author of The True Sources of the Nile. Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares\,\nStoryQuarterly\, The Believer\, The Millions\, and The Writer’s Chronicle\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Visit her online at www.sarahstoneauthor.com. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/sarah-stone-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg-discussing-stones-new-novel-hungry-ghost-theater/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T150000
DTSTAMP:20181219T185332Z
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SUMMARY:Sharon Saline presents What your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life.
DESCRIPTION:You’ve read all the expert advice\, but despite countless efforts to help your child cope better and stay on track\, you’re still struggling with everyday issues like homework\, chores\, getting to soccer practice on time\, and simply getting along without pushback and power struggles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat if you could work with your child\, motivating and engaging them in the process\, to create positive change once and for all? In this insightful and practical book\, veteran psychologist Saline shares the words and inner struggles of children and teens living with ADHD–and a blueprint for achieving lasting success by working together. Based on more than 25 years of experience counseling young people and their families\, Dr. Saline’s advice and real-world examples reveal how parents can shift the dynamic and truly help kids succeed. Topics include: \n* Setting mutual goals that foster cooperation\n* Easing academic struggles\n* Tackling everyday challenges\, from tantrums and backtalk to staying organized\, building friendships\, and more. \nWith useful exercises and easy-to-remember techniques\, you’ll discover a variety of practical strategies that really work\, creating positive change that will last a lifetime. \nSharon Saline\, Psy.D.\, maintains a busy psychotherapy practice working with children\, teens\, families and adults with ADHD and other mental health issues. She has spoken and conducted workshops nationally and internationally on ADHD and the adolescent brain. Thousands of parents\, teachers\, school administrators and mental health clinicians have attended her presentations\, trainings and workshops.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/sharon-saline-presents-what-your-adhd-child-wishes-you-knew-working-together-to-empower-kids-for-success-in-school-and-life/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T193000
DTSTAMP:20190131T211905Z
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SUMMARY:Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan OFFSITE In conversation on Women\, Rituals\, Ecology in India.
DESCRIPTION:Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan OFFSITE\n\n\n\n\nIn conversation on Women\, Rituals\, Ecology in India. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVandana Shiva is an Indian scholar\, environmental activist\, food sovereignty advocate\, and alter-globalization author. Currently based in Delhi\, she has authored more than twenty books\, including Who Really Feeds the World? Water Wars\, and Biopiracy. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (along with Jerry Mander\, Edward Goldsmith\, Ralph Nader\, Jeremy Rifkin) and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices\, as evidenced by her interview in the book Vedic Ecology. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS\, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank. She is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993\, an honor known as an “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Before becoming an activist\, Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists. \nVijaya Nagarajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. She writes about Hinduism\, gender\, ritual\, ecology and the commons. Recently her work has centered around spiritual autobiographies of place\, especially around immigration and motherhood. She has been active in the American Academy of Religion and in environmental movements in the United States. She is the author of Feeding a Thousand Souls which documents the history of the tradition of the kolam. Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create the kōlam\, a ritual design made of rice flour\, on the thresholds of homes. This thousand year-old ritual welcomes and honors the goddesses Lakshmi and Bhudevi. Braiding Tamil women’s voices and the author’s own stories\, Feeding a Thousand Souls offers different knowledge traditions––beauty\, history\, gender\, literature\, religion\, anthropology\, mathematics\, and ecology. \nIn cooperation with KPFA. Advance tickets ($12) available at Mrs. Dalloways\, through brownpapertickets.com\, or (800) 838-3006. $15 at the door.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/vandana-shiva-and-vijaya-nagarajan-offsite-in-conversation-on-women-rituals-ecology-in-india/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T170000
DTSTAMP:20181219T185913Z
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SUMMARY:Angie Thomas in Conversation with MK Asante OFFSITE discussing her new novel On the Come Up\, an ode to hip hop.
DESCRIPTION:Angie Thomas in Conversation with MK Asante OFFSITE\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing her new novel On the Come Up\, an ode to hip hop. The ticketed event is co-sponsored by Oakland Unified School District Library Services and Mrs. Dalloway’s. Tickets and further information available through Eventbrite. Your $25 purchase includes a ticket and a copy of On the Come Up\, available for pickup at the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nInsightful\, unflinching\, and full of heart\, On the Come Up\, an ode to hip-hop\, is the story of fighting for your dreams\, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how\, especially for young black people\, freedom of speech isn’t always free. \nA former teen rapper\, Angie Thomas holds a BFA in creative writing from Bellhaven University. Her debut novel\, The Hate U Give\, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Fox 2000 starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman\, Jr. She was born\, raised\, and still lives in Jackson\, Mississippi. \nMK Asante\, award-winning writer\, filmmaker\, hip-hop artist\, and distinguished professor\, is the author of It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation and Buck: A Memoir\, currently being adapted into a major motion picture. \nFor more information about Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Library Services\, visit them here. \nStreet parking and on-campus parking are avaible at the 45th Street entrance. Doors open at 2:30pm\, show starts at 3pm. Please arrive early to find parking and a good seat. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nOakland Technical High School Auditorium\n300-340 42nd St\n\nOakland\, CA 94609
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/angie-thomas-in-conversation-with-mk-asante-offsite-discussing-her-new-novel-on-the-come-up-an-ode-to-hip-hop/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190219T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190219T193000
DTSTAMP:20181219T195208Z
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Love.
DESCRIPTION:“Identity is frail business\, and in her searing story\, Dani Shapiro makes the most disquieting discovery: that everything\, from her lineage\, to her father\, down to her very own sense of self is an astounding error. How do we live with ourselves after finding we are not who we thought we were? The answer is not disquieting. It is beautiful.”–Andre Aciman\, author of Call Me by Your Name \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Inheritance by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience\, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?\nIn the spring of 2016\, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis\, Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. \nInheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity\, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years\, years she had spent writing brilliantly\, and compulsively\, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. \nTimely and unforgettable\, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping\, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy\, paternity\, and love. \nDani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Hourglass\, Still Writing\, Devotion\, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist\, Shapiro’s short fiction\, essays\, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, One Story\, Elle\, Vogue\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times Book Review\, the op-ed pages of the New York Times\, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia\, NYU\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She lives with her family in Litchfield County\, Connecticut. \n  \n 
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/dani-shapiro-returns-to-mrs-dalloways-to-present-inheritance-a-memoir-of-genealogy-paternity-and-love/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T193000
DTSTAMP:20181219T195724Z
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SUMMARY:Alan Brennert reads from Daughter of Moloka'i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.
DESCRIPTION:Alan Brennert\n\n\n\n\nreads from Daughter of Moloka’i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka’i. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 7:30pm
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/alan-brennert-reads-from-daughter-of-molokai-the-sequel-to-his-bestselling-molokai/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T150000
DTSTAMP:20190205T193657Z
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SUMMARY:Guest Poet James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory\, is available from Oakland’s own Nomadic Press. James will read his poems\, then sit for an interview; audience discussion will follow the interview. A month before the reading a free chapbook of James Cagney’s poems will be available at all BPL branches. James Cagney is the 11th poet in Claremont’s Clearly Meant series. 
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/guest-poet-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Berkeley Public Library\, Claremont Branch\, 2940 Benvenue Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T193000
DTSTAMP:20190131T213546Z
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SUMMARY:Katie Peterson in Conversation with Louise Gluckdiscussing her new book of poems A Piece of Good News.
DESCRIPTION:Katie Peterson in Conversation with Louise Gluck discussing her new book of poems A Piece of Good News.\n\n\n\n\nDense\, rich\, and challenging\, Katie Peterson’s A Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior landscapes\, exposure\, and shelter. Imbued with a hallucinatory poetic logic where desire\, anger\, and sorrow supplant intelligence and reason\, these poems are powerful meditations of mourning\, love\, doubt\, political citizenship\, and happiness. Learned\, wise\, and witty\, Peterson explodes the possibilities of the poetic voice in this remarkable and deeply felt collection. \nKatie Peterson is the award-winning author of the poetry collections This One Tree\, Permission\, and The Accounts. She lives in Berkeley and teaches at UC Davis. \nLouise Gluck is the author of a dozen books of poems and American Originality: Essays on Poetry. Her many awards include the National Book Award\, the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry\, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/katie-peterson-in-conversation-with-louise-gluckdiscussing-her-new-book-of-poems-a-piece-of-good-news/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T193000
DTSTAMP:20190131T213736Z
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman returns to celebrate the publication of Good Riddance
DESCRIPTION:Elinor Lipman returns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to celebrate the publication of her latest novel\, Good Riddance\, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure\, with deliriously entertaining results. A pitch-perfect\, whip-smart new novel from an “enchanting\, infinitely witty yet serious\, exceptionally intelligent\, wholly original\, and Austen-like stylist” (Washington Post).\n\n\n\n\nIn this delightful new romantic comedy\, Daphne Maritch doesn’t quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother\, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of ’69 had dedicated its yearbook\, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion\, scribbling notes and observations after each one–not always charitably–and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not\, Daphne concluded\, “spark joy”)\, she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it’s found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker\, the yearbook’s mysteries–not to mention her own family’s–take on a whole new urgency\, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd. \nElinor Lipman is the award-winning author of eleven novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine; one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/elinor-lipman-returns-to-celebrate-the-publication-of-good-riddance/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T143000
DTSTAMP:20190311T190907Z
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SUMMARY:Ashton Applewhite OFFSITE
DESCRIPTION:The Retirement Center and Ashby Village are pleased to host Ashton Applewhite\, activist and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism\,  a rousing manifesto against discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. \n\n\n\n\nApplewhite takes readers and audiences on a journey\, examining the historical roots of ageism and how it divides and diminishes us. She examines how ageist stereotypes affect the way our brains and bodies function in the workplace and the bedroom! Starting with her own experiences and her explorations of ageism\, Ashton leads us to a vision of what an all-age-friendly world would look like\, and offers a rousing call to action. \nAshton Applewhite has been recognized by the New York Times\, The New Yorker\,National Public Radio\, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. She blogs at This Chair Rocks\, speaks widely around the world\, has written for Harper’s and Playboy\, and is the voice of Yo\, Is This Ageist? In 2016\, she joined the PBS site Next Avenue’s annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year. \nFor registration and more information see https://retirement.berkeley.edu/home. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nClark Kerr Campus\, Krutch Theater\n2601 Warring St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94720
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/ashton-applewhite-offsite/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190317T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190317T150000
DTSTAMP:20190311T191152Z
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SUMMARY:Kids ages 5-10! Meera Sriram
DESCRIPTION:Launch party for her picture book The Yellow Suitcase\, a touching story that celebrates grandparental love.\n\n\n\n\n“A thoughtful story that artfully addresses the loss of a grandparent from an immigrant perspective.” –-Kirkus \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The Yellow Suitcase by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBring your kids to listen to Meera Sriram read and launch The Yellow Suitcase. Stick around for book signing\, a small craft\, and surprise treats from the book!\n\nMeera Sriram lives with her husband and two children in Berkeley where she enjoys writing\, teaching early literacy\, and advocating diverse bookshelves. She has co-authored several children’s books published in India.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kids-ages-5-10-meera-sriram/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190320T193000
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DTSTAMP:20190131T214115Z
CREATED:20190131T214114Z
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates reads from her novel: The Hazards of Time Travel
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates reads from her latest novel The Hazards of Time Travel\, an ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society.\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Hazards of Time Travel by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Time travel”–and its hazards–are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America–“Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”–that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”–but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\,Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Timesbestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She spends winters in Berkeley.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/joyce-carol-oates-reads-from-her-novel-the-hazards-of-time-travel/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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