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SUMMARY:School Benefit Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 9\, 2019 – 10:00am to Monday\, November 11\, 2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\nOnce again\, Mrs. Dalloway’s will reimburse all partnership schools for 17% of total pre-tax purchases made by the school community from Saturday\, November 9 through Monday\, November 11. \nThis is a great opportunity to stock up on holiday gift items such as children’s books\, cookbooks\, adult fiction and nonfiction\, gardening books\, merchandise\, art\, and gift certificates for teachers\, family\, and friends. \nOnline sales are welcome! Can’t make it to the shop? Support your school by visiting www.mrsdalloways.com. \nPlease make sure to keep your receipts* and turn them in to your school no later than end of day Friday\, November 15. \n*For online purchases\, print out your order confirmation email\, and turn this in as your receipt.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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SUMMARY:Peter Jan Honigsberg  launches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo\, 
DESCRIPTION:Peter Jan Honigsberg launches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo\, containing firsthand testimonies from Guantánamo Bay\, inspiring future generations to never repeat the human rights violations of the detention center. \n\n\n\n\n“The definitive account of what happened at Guantánamo in all of its chilling and horrifying detail. What makes this book unique and compelling is that it is the story of what it does to people’s lives to create ‘a place outside the law.’ Through his countless interviews\, Professor Honigsberg describes the impact of Guantánamo on those who have been part of it: soldiers\, medical personnel\, lawyers\, interrogators\, torturers\, detainees. It is the story of what happens when a country abandons the rule of law.”–Erwin Chemerinsky\, UC Berkeley\, School of Law \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of A Place Outside the Law by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaw scholar and Witness to Guantánamo founder Peter Jan Honigsberg uncovers a haunting portrait of life at the military prison and its toll\, not only on the detainees and their loved ones but also on its military and civilian personnel and the journalists who reported on it. \nHonigsberg conducted 158 interviews across 20 countries so that the people who lived and worked there could tell their heartbreaking and inspirational stories. In each one\, we face the reality that the healing process cannot begin until we start the conversation about what was done in the name of protecting our country. These are a few of them. Many alleged operatives in Guantánamo were purchased by the United States for ransom from Afghan and Pakistani soldiers. Brandon Neely\, a prison guard who processed the first group of suspected operatives to arrive in Cuba\, flew to London to embrace the detainees he guarded after leaving the military. Navy whistleblower Matt Diaz covertly released the names of 500 detainees by sending them in a greeting card to a lawyer in New York. Journalist Carol Rosenberg committed the past 17 years of her career to documenting life at Guantánamo. And Damien Corsetti\, an interrogator who came to be known as the “King of Torture\,” received ribbons and awards for the same cruel actions for which he was later prosecuted. \nIn startling\, aching prose\, A Place Outside the Law shines a light on these unheard voices\, and through them\, encourages the global community to embrace humanity as our greatest tool to make the world a safer place. \nPeter Jan Honigsberg is a professor at USF School of Law and the founder and director of Witness to Guantánamo. His research and teaching focuses on the rule of law and human rights violations that occurred in the detention center in Guantánamo\, as well as on the study of terrorism and post-9/11 issues. His books include Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror and Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir. Honigsberg lives in Berkeley. \n 
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart discussing Sciolino's new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris.
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart (and introduced by L. John Harris) discussing Sciolino’s new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. \n\n\n\n\nA soulful\, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light. Elaine Sciolino is the perfect guide to the world’s most romantic river.”–Lauren Collins \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Seine by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nElaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine\, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea\, and the cities\, tributaries\, islands\, ports\, and bridges in between. \nSciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman\, a riverbank bookseller\, a houseboat dweller\, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. She discovers the story of Sequana–the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name–and follows the river through Paris\, where it determined the city’s destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police\, rows with a restorer of antique boats\, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river\, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art\, literature\, music\, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way\, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019. \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. She is the author of five books\, including The Seine\, The Only Street in Paris and La Seduction. Sciolino was decorated as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor\, the highest honor of the French state\, in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. She and her husband have lived in Paris since 2002. \nThad Carhart is the author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and Finding Fontainebleau. A resident of Paris for 25 years\, he now lives in San Francisco. \nL. John Harris is the author/illustrator of Cafe French. He lives in Berkeley. \n 
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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\nTuesday\, December 3\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\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.
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SUMMARY:Ian Haney López OFFSITE  presents Merge Left:Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America. 
DESCRIPTION:Tickets $12 advance at Mrs. Dalloway’s or through brownpapertickets.com.\n\n\n\nWednesday\, January 22\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2014\, Ian Haney López in Dog Whistle Politics named and explained the coded racial appeals exploited by right-wing politicians over the last half century–and thereby anticipated the 2016 presidential election. Now the country is heading into what will surely be one of the most consequential elections ever\, with the Right gearing up to exploit racial fear-mongering to divide and distract\, and the Left splintered over the next step forward. Some want to focus on racial justice head-on; others insist that a race-silent focus on class avoids alienating white voters. \nCan either approach–race-forward or colorblind–build the progressive supermajorities necessary to break political gridlock and fundamentally change the country’s direction? \nFor the past two years\, Haney López has been collaborating with a research team of union activists\, racial justice leaders\, communications specialists\, and pollsters. Based on conversations\, interviews\, and surveys with thousands of people all over the country\, the team found a way forward. \nBy merging the fights for racial justice and for shared economic prosperity\, they were able to build greater enthusiasm for both goals–and for the cross-racial solidarity needed to win elections. What does this mean? It means that neutralizing the Right’s political strategy of racial division is possible\, today. And that’s the key to everything progressives want to achieve. \nA work of deep research\, nuanced argument\, and urgent insight\, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America is an indispensable tool for the upcoming political season and in the larger fight to build racial justice and shared economic prosperity for all of us. \nIan Haney López is a law professor at UC Berkeley\, where he teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. Haney López is the author of Dog Whistle Politics plus two other books and two anthologies. He co-founded the Race-Class Narrative Project\, and also co-chaired the AFL-CIO’s Advisory Council on Racial and Economic Justice. He holds an endowed chair as the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley and lives in Richmond. \nIn collaboration with KPFA. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nKehilla Synagogue\n1300 Grand Ave\n\nPiedmont\, CA 94610
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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SUMMARY:PEGGY ORENSTEIN discussing Boys & Sex
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 29 – 7:00pm  OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT\n\n\n \n\n\nIn conversation with Judy Campbell discussing Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups\, Love\, Porn\, Consent\, and Navigating the New Masculinity. The award-winning journalist Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground\, shattered taboos\, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nand launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. In \nBoys & Sex\, she reveals how young men also understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy. The result is a provocative work that offers a vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men. This event is presented in collaboration with East Bay School for Boys. Tickets are available through Eventbrite or directly from Mrs. Dalloway’s in-store. Ticket price includes a copy of Boys & Sex.\n\n\n\n\nPeggy Orenstein is the author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter. She is an award-winning journalist\, and internationally recognized speaker on gender issues\, especially those related to teens\, sex and relationships.\n\nJudy Campbell is a producer for KQED’s Forum as well as the co-host and co-producer of the KQED podcast The Leap.\n\nEvent address\n\n\n\nFirst Congregational Church\, 2345 Channing Way Berkeley
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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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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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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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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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T193000
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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.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/jennifer-jewell-presents-the-earth-in-her-hands-75-extraordinary-women-working-in-the-world-of-plants/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T193000
DTSTAMP:20200114T190731Z
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SUMMARY:Adam Hochschild reads from Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical\, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes\,
DESCRIPTION:The astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time. \n“Through the lens of a remarkable marriage\, Adam Hochschild draws a vivid portrait of the Gilded Age–of immigrants\, sweatshops\, tenements\, strikes\, enclaves of patrician privilege\, and a ‘citadel of socialism’ on a private island. At the center of it all is Rose\, whose extraordinary story ends as anything but a fairy tale.”–Jean Strouse \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Rebel Cinderella by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903\, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later\, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes\, scion of one of the legendary 400 families of New York high society. Together\, this unusual couple joined the burgeoning Socialist Party and\, over the next dozen years\, moved among the liveliest group of activists and dreamers this country has ever seen. Their friends and houseguests included Emma Goldman\, Big Bill Haywood\, Eugene V. Debs\, John Reed\, Margaret Sanger\, Jack London\, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Rose stirred audiences to tears and led strikes of restaurant waiters and garment workers. She campaigned alongside the country’s earliest feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control\, earning her notoriety as “one of the dangerous influences of the country” from President Woodrow Wilson. But in a way no one foresaw\, her too-short life would end in the same abject poverty with which it began. \nBy a master of narrative nonfiction\, Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich\, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner who was truly ahead of her time. \nAdam Hochschild is the author of ten books. King Leopold’s Ghost was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as was To End All Wars. His Bury the Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award. He lives in Berkeley.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/adam-hochschild-reads-from-rebel-cinderella-from-rags-to-riches-to-radical-the-epic-journey-of-rose-pastor-stokes/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200401T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200401T193000
DTSTAMP:20191022T183005Z
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield reads from her new volume of poetry Ledger
DESCRIPTION:Jane Hirshfield reads from her new volume of poetry Ledger\, a book of personal\, ecological\, and political reckoning from the internationally renowned poet named “among the modern masters” (Washington Post). \n\n\n\n\nFrom one of our most celebrated contemporary poets–long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize–comes Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger\, her most important work yet. From its already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (“Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.”)\, Hirshfield’s poems inscribe a registry\, both personal and communal\, of our present-day predicaments\, and call us to action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering\, acutely and tenderly\, the crises of refugees\, justice\, and climate. They consider “the minimum mass for a whale\, for a language\, an ice cap\,” recognize the intimacy of interconnection (“lichens\, burdocks\, mycelial mats between trees– / forgive this hubris”)\, and apply the lever of questions (“How came separation to chisel\, / to cherish\, to chafe?”) by which we might begin to find a way forward. Finally\, it is the human spirit and words themselves–loyal instruments of recognition\, humility\, and praise–that triumph in this stunning accounting by an essential poet. \nJane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry\, including Ledger; The Beauty; Come\, Thief; and Given Sugar\, Given Salt. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows\, and has edited and co-translated four books of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets\, and presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, New Republic\, Harper’s\, and Poetry\, and have been selected for ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California\, she is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/jane-hirshfield-reads-from-her-new-volume-of-poetry-ledger/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T193000
DTSTAMP:20200114T191241Z
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Tsui presents Why We Swim
DESCRIPTION:Bonnie Tsui presents Why We Swim\, “a beautifully written love letter to water and a fascinating story” (Rebecca Skloot).\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Why We Swim by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHumans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now in the twenty-first century we swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. Swimming is an introspective and silent sport in a chaotic and noisy age; it’s therapeutic for both the mind and body; and it’s an adventurous way to get from point A to point B. It’s also one route to that elusive\, ecstatic state of flow. These reasons\, among many others\, make swimming one of the most popular activities in the world. Why We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water–despite its dangers–seduces us and why we come back to it again and again. \nBonnie Tsui lives\, swims\, and surfs in the Bay Area. A longtime contributor to the New York Times and California Sunday Magazine\, she has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University\, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award\, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Her last book\, American Chinatown\, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Visit her at bonnietsui.com. \n 
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/bonnie-tsui-presents-why-we-swim/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTSTAMP:20200114T191610Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Wetmore in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg  discussing Wetmore's marvelous debut novel\, Valentine.
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Wetmore in Conversation with Sylvia Brownriggdiscussing Wetmore’s marvelous debut novel\, Valentine.\n\n\n\nFriday\, April 17\, 2020 – 7:30pm
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/elizabeth-wetmore-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg-discussing-wetmores-marvelous-debut-novel-valentine/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T160000
DTSTAMP:20201130T194613Z
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SUMMARY:"A Christmas Memory" read by Thomas Lynch -- virtually
DESCRIPTION:BYOF (Bring Your Own Fruitcake) and settle in for this traditional Mrs. Dalloway’s event. This year it will be a bit different\, like everything else: We will host our dear friend Thomas Lynch virtually on Crowdcast. \n\n\n\n\nBased on Capote’s own boyhood in rural Alabama in the 1930s\, A Christmas Memory was originally published in Mademoiselle in 1956 and later was included in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. \nThis is a free event\, though we encourage you to make a contribution to support Mrs. Dalloway’s or to purchase a copy of the book through our website. \nRegistration is required to attend. Be sure to add your contribution before you “Save your Spot” on Crowdcast. Click here to register. Thank you! \nOrder a copy of A Christmas Memory  from Mrs. Dalloway’s. A perfect gift for anyone on your list! \nThomas Lynch\, a longtime resident of the Elmwood\, is an actor and man-about-town. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, December 13\, 2020 – 3:00pm
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/a-christmas-memory-read-by-thomas-lynch-virtually/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Holiday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T190000
DTSTAMP:20210106T173604Z
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SUMMARY:Kevin Begos to discuss his book Tasting the Past 
DESCRIPTION:Vintage Berkeley Event: \nOn January 14th we’re hosting author Kevin Begos to discuss his book Tasting the Past while we drink some of the wines he mentions therein. (You can get a white\, a red\, or both!) This is that absolute rarest of birds: a genuinely well-written\, fun\, and super-informative wine book! Newbs and nerds alike will dig
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kevin-begos-to-discuss-his-book-tasting-the-past/
LOCATION:Vintage Berkeley College Ave\, 2949 College Avenue\, berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T190000
DTSTAMP:20210106T175305Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem to discuss his book The Arrest
DESCRIPTION:On January 21st Vintage Berkeley is hosting Jonathan Lethem\, one of America’s greatest writers (Motherless Brooklyn\, et many al) to discuss his book The Arrest while we drink wines paired to the book! (You can get a white\, a red\, or both!) [The last Book Zoom we did with Booker-Prize nominated author Diane Cook was wildly popular\, so don’t miss this one!]
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/jonathan-lethem-to-discuss-his-book-the-arrest/
LOCATION:Vintage Berkeley College Ave\, 2949 College Avenue\, berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T203000
DTSTAMP:20231025T003352Z
CREATED:20231025T002543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T003352Z
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SUMMARY:Mrs Dalloway's ART EXHIBIT & SALE w/Celebrated Local Artists & Storytellers
DESCRIPTION:Art Exhibit and Reception\, featuring the artwork of 7 local illustrators of books. They will be presenting and selling their works of art and visiting with attendees. Should be a great night. See attached for the flyer.\n\nHere is the Eventbrite link for registration and more details:\nEventbrite Post – Mrs D Art Exhibit Nov 3
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/mrs-dalloways-art-exhibit-sale-w-celebrated-local-artists-storytellers/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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