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  • Susan Casey: The Underworld

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes New York Times bestselling author Susan Casey (The Wave) for a discussion of The Underworld, her awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, […]

  • Weekend With Shakespeare

    UCSC Arboretum

    Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2023 Season’s main stage productions, The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear. The Weekend […]

  • Dickens Universe: A Tale of Two Cities

    UCSC

    The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity […]

  • Santa Cruz Shakespeare 2023 Season Opening Night

    The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park 501 Upper Park Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Tickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare's 2023 season, featuring The Book of Will and The Taming of the Shrew. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. The season runs from […]

  • Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London

    Virtual Event

    Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our June Pickwick Club talk by author and historian Lee Jackson who will be discussing Dickens’s […]

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    Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Ottessa Moshfegh (My Year of Rest and Relaxation) will discuss her recent novel Lapvona, available in paperback June 20th. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to […]

  • Deanna Kreisel

    Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel

    Virtual Event

    Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” Over the course of three sessions, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment, […]

  • Ocean Vuong

    Bookshop Santa Cruz presents: An evening with Ocean Vuong

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In this deeply intimate second poetry collection (in paperback June 6th), Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong […]

  • The Deep Read: Community Salon

    The Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    On June 7, we’ll be hosting a salon—co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Lookout Santa Cruz—focused on actions we can all take in the face of climate change. Ecology Action, Elkhorn Slough Foundation, and Regeneración Pajaro Valley will lead the discussion moderated by UCSC Professor of Humanities and Journalism Jody Biehl. Not in Santa Cruz? Register for […]

  • Luis Alberto Urrea

    Luis Alberto Urrea – Good Night, Irene

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome bestselling author Luis Alberto Urrea (The House of Broken Angels) back to the store for a reading and signing of his new novel Good Night, Irene, which was inspired by his own family's history: his mother's heroism as a Red Cross volunteer during World War II. This event […]

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