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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita - Questions 27 & 28
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before\, during\, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang\, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn February 1942\, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor\, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120\,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. \n \nQuestions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire\, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century\, their children who came of age during war and incarceration\, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath. Yamashita mixes fact with fiction and layers genres from James Bond movies to haiku to oral history\, transfiguring an enormity of archival research into a chorus of stories. With her signature wit and aplomb\, she gives voice to laborers\, artists\, scholars\, informants\, and activists who\, over three generations\, defined an immigrant community. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of nine books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award. Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, she is Professor Emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In 2024 Yamashita was inducted as a Literature Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nAlice Yang is Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in history from Stanford University and currently co-directs the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories. She specializes in memories of the Pacific War\, Asian American history\, race\, gender\, oral history\, historical memory\, and twentieth-century America. Her publications include Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (2007)\, Major Problems in Asian American History (2003\, 2017) and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (2000). Her exhibit\, Never Again is Now: Japanese American Women Activists and the Legacy of Mass Incarceration\, appeared at UC Santa Cruz\, the Watsonville Public Library and the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. She also has served as chair of the UCSC History Department and provost of Stevenson College at UCSC. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Karen Tei Yamashita \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-questions-27-28/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Russell - The Antidote
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) for a discussion about her latest novel The Antidote\, which will be available in paperback on the night of the event. “The Antidote blends speculative and fantasy elements with rich language and vivid characters in an effort not to escape reality but to comment even more thoughtfully on it. . . . Russell’s lyrical writing dazzles on every page.” —The New York Times \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nThe Antidote opens on Black Sunday\, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz\, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch\,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece\, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. \nKaren Russell is the author of six books of fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami\, Florida\, she now lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, son\, and daughter. The Antidote\, a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award\, is her second novel. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-russell-the-antidote/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anne Fadiman - Frog: And Other Essays
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes award-wining author Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down) for a discussion about her latest book Frog: And Other Essays\, a new collection of evocative personal essays. “Affecting and often humorous . . . Fadiman has a knack for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary\, using everyday objects to explore such profound themes as grief\, loss\, and personal growth . . . Readers will be captivated.” —Publishers Weekly \n \nIn Frog\, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre\, the essay\, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter from her deceased frog\, to archaic printer technology\, to the fraught relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his son Hartley\, these essays unlock a whole world–one overflowing with mundanity and oddity–through sly observation and brilliant wit. \nThe diverse subjects of Frog are bound together by the quality of Fadiman’s attention\, and subtly\, they come to form a slantwise portrait of the artist\, a writer dedicated to chronicling the world as it changes around her\, in ways small and large\, as time passes. \nAnne Fadiman is the author\, most recently\, of the essay collection Frog (2026). Her first book\, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (1997)\, won the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the Salon Book Award. In 2017\, she published The Wine Lover’s Daughter\, a memoir about her father. Fadiman has also written two essay collections\, Ex Libris and At Large and At Small\, and edited Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love. She is Professor in the Practice of English and Francis Writer in Residence at Yale.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-fadiman-frog-and-other-essays/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz - Where The Girls Were
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Kate Schatz (Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book) for a discussion about her latest novel Where the Girls Were. Schatz will be in conversation with activist-scholar Bettina Aptheker. \n \nThey were sent away to be forgotten. This is their story. Where the Girls Were is a timely unearthing of a little-known moment in American history\, when the sexual revolution and feminist movement collided with the limits of reproductive rights—and society’s expectations of women. As Baker finds her strength and her voice\, she shows us how to step into your power\, even when the world is determined to keep you silent. \nKate Schatz is a feminist author from California. She’s the New York Times bestselling author of Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book\, with W. Kamau Bell\, and the “Rad Women” book series (including Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, and Rad American History A-Z). Her book of fiction\, Rid of Me: A Story\, was published as part of the cult-favorite 33 1/3 series. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. She played a leading role in the international movement to Free Angela Davis. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s. She has published several books including a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech\, and Became A Feminist Rebel. Her most recent book is called Communists in Closets: Queering the History. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Kate Schatz \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Kate will be speaking earlier in the day at UCSC. We encourage the campus community to join her!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kate-schatz-where-the-girls-were/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia\, the Grateful Dead\, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia\, the Grateful Dead\, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution\,” featuring award-winning food writer Gabi Moskowitz and journalist\, teacher\, and author Jim Newton. This event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz The Humanities Division\, The Humanities Institute\, and the UCSC Special Collections & Archives. \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nDead in the Kitchen\, by Gabi Moskowitz: Kindly calling all Deadheads! Enjoy a variety of vibrant and delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes as you cook your way through Dead in the Kitchen: The Official Grateful Dead Cookbook\, available just in time to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the legendary psychedelic rock band. \nWelcome to the show! Dead in the Kitchen is the official\, authorized Grateful Dead cookbook\, a well-crafted extension of the vibrant\, communal\, free-spirited energy that the band and their legacy have graced us with for decades. Featuring the band’s iconic artwork\, logos\, and illustrations\, this beautifully designed book brings the unmistakable Grateful Dead aesthetic to life on every page\, making it a must-have collectible for devoted fans. \nYou’ll find recipes organized and inspired by not only the band’s timeless music\, but also the loyal Deadheads that continue to find kindness and community amongst one another. Delight in dishes like the savory Curried Vegetable Pot Pie\, the Meatless Meatball Sandwich\, or a sweet bite of Pumpkin Cheesecake. With each recipe crafted to be simple and accessible for all\, this is the perfect cookbook for novice cooks and seasoned pros alike. Find your flow in the kitchen as you create each flavorful dish and\, if Jerry has taught us anything\, don’t be afraid to improvise! This cookbook celebrates the Grateful Dead on each page and encourages more connection through gathering together and enjoying delicious food that’s good for feeding the mind\, body\, and soul. \nHere Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia\, the Grateful Dead\, and an American Awakening\, by Jim Newton: In 1965\, in Palo Alto\, Jerry Garcia opened a dictionary to a fable in which an appreciative soul repays the generosity of a traveler\, a “gift of the grateful dead.” After a traumatic car accident that injured him and killed a close friend\, Garcia had resolved to build his life around music. He had practiced relentlessly and caromed across the northern California folk and bluegrass scene. He had gathered up some fellow musicians and formed a band. Now they had their name. Following the history of the Grateful Dead means tracking American cultural history through a period of radical reconsideration. The Dead played at the Acid Tests and the Human Be-In and Woodstock\, at the occupation of Columbia and the Bail Ball for People’s Park. They performed at the base of the Pyramids during a lunar eclipse\, at Madison Square Garden to defend the rainforests\, in San Francisco to sound the alarm over AIDS and at Huey Newton’s birthday party. For three decades\, the band explored the meaning and limits of freedom. The radical message of the Dead\, to reject the mainstream and build a bohemian community\, radiated across the world\, manifesting itself in art\, music\, business\, and politics. Here Beside the Rising Tide tells the story of those disparate shafts of light\, putting Garcia into a broader context while tracing his eventful life. Nearly a century after his birth\, Garcia’s influence stretches onward\, expressed in guitar licks and a gentle way of life\, one of excellence and gratitude\, chasing freedom\, living moment to moment\, guided by song-the gift of the Grateful Dead. \nGabi Moskowitz is the founder of BrokeAssGourmet.com\, an award-winning website about inexpensive cooking. She’s written five cookbooks\, and produced Freeform’s Young & Hungry\, a situation comedy based on her life and writing. She lives in Marin County\, California\, with her husband and daughters. \nJim Newton is a journalist\, teacher\, and author of Justice for All\, Eisenhower\, Worthy Fights\, and Man of Tomorrow. He was at the Los Angeles Times for twenty-five years as a reporter\, bureau chief\, editorial page editor\, columnist\, and editor at large. He lives in Pasadena\, California\, and teaches at UCLA\, where he founded and edits the award-winning public affairs magazine Blueprint.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kitchen-counterculture-a-conversation-about-jerry-garcia-the-grateful-dead-and-the-food-that-fueled-a-revolution/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gregory O'Malley - The Escapes of David George
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O’Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution—the dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary America. \nThis book tells the story of David George who in 1762 at the age of 19 escaped from a plantation in Virginia thus becoming a fugitive enslaved person. Using archival records and David’s own brief account of his life\, which is the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America\, the book tells the story of David George’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America and presents a unique perspective on our nation’s origins\, principles\, and contradictions. \nPiecing together archival records and David George’s own brief account of his life—the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America—Gregory O’Malley presents a thrilling narrative and a unique perspective on our nation’s origins\, principles\, and contradictions. \n \nGregory E O’Malley is professor of history at UC Santa Cruz and the author of The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery\, Freedom\, and the American Revolution. His first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, 1619-1807\, won the Forkosch\, Rawley\, Owsley\, and Elsa Goveia awards. He is a key contributor to the SlaveVoyages.org\, consulted on The 1619 Project\, and lectures widely on the slave trade and related subjects. \n\nCosponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregory-omalley-the-escapes-of-david-george/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Megha Majumdar - A Guardian and a Thief
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist. A Guardian and a Thief\, a piercing and propulsive tour de force\, is set in a near-future Kolkata\, India\, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity\, in which two families trying to protect their children must battle one another. \n \nMegha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Burning\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize\, and the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal. It was named one of the best books of the year by media including The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, NPR\, The Atlantic\, Vogue\, and TIME Magazine. A 2022 Whiting Award winner\, she was born and raised in Kolkata\, India\, and holds degrees in anthropology from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She is the former editor in chief of Catapult Books\, and lives in New York. A Guardian and A Thief is her second novel. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Megha Majumdar \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-megha-majumdar-a-guardian-and-a-thief/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:John Freeman - California Rewritten
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author\, editor\, and poet John Freeman for a conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita about his new book California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n“In Freeman’s hands\, California is a literary mecca\, and each essay a revelation.” —Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, author of The Man Who Could Move Clouds \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nDive into the revelatory worlds of California’s most exciting writers\, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future. Percival Everett\, Rebecca Solnit\, Tommy Orange\, Michael Connelly\, Julie Otsuka: As John Freeman writes in California Rewritten\, “Literature of so many kinds and so many genres from so many different types of people—at the highest level—has been coming out of California and from Californians for decades now.” Freeman\, one of the sharpest editors working today\, has followed the evolution of California’s literary life since his teenage years in Sacramento. In over fifty essays inspired by his hosting of Alta Journal’s popular California Book Club\, he offers an essential road map to California literature now. He shows us how the state’s most exciting writers can unlock our understanding of the past\, and how they can deepen our imaginations as we confront the most pressing issues that face our society: labor and inequality\, migration and citizenship\, technology and its limits\, changing landscapes and climate catastrophe. Incisive and compulsively readable\, California Rewritten will be a source of empowering discovery for any book lover who cares about the Golden State. \nJohn Freeman has hosted Alta’s California Book Club since its founding in 2020. He is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf\, and he edited Freeman’s (2015-2023)\, a literary annual of new writing. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing\, as well as the anthologies Tales of Two Americas\, Tales of Two Planets\, The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story\, and Sacramento Noir. He is also the author of three poetry collections\, Maps\, The Park\, and Wind\, Trees. His work is translated into more than twenty languages\, and has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta\, he lives in New York. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books (including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently Sansei and Sensibility)\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature\, and a United States Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-freeman-california-rewritten/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:John Scalzi - The Shattering Peace
DESCRIPTION:  \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed science fiction master John Scalzi who\, after a decade\, returns to the galaxy of the Old Man’s War series with the long awaited seventh book\, The Shattering Peace. This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n“John Scalzi writes science fiction that is fun\, intelligent\, and irreverent. I haven’t enjoyed science fiction this much in years.” —Christopher Paolini\, author of Eragon \n \nYour RSVP helps Bookshop plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nTHE PEACE IS SHATTERING: For a decade\, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union\, the Earth\, and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay\, even when some would have preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of former times. For now\, more sensible heads have prevailed – and have even championed unity. \nBut now\, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained peace: The Consu\, the most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met\, are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war. This war is between Consu factions… but nothing the Consu ever do is just about them. The Colonial Union\, the Earth and the Conclave have been unwillingly dragged into the conflict\, in the most surprising of ways. \nGretchen Trujillo is a mid-level diplomat\, working in an unimportant part of the Colonial Union bureaucracy. But when she is called to take part in a secret mission involving representatives from every powerful faction in space\, what she finds there has the chance to redefine the destinies of humans and aliens alike… or destroy them forever. \nJohn Scalzi is one of the most popular science fiction authors of his generation. His debut\, Old Man’s War\, won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony\, Fuzzy Nation\, Redshirts (which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel)\, The Last Emperox\, The Kaiju Preservation Society\, and Starter Villain. Material from his blog\, Whatever\, has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-scalzi-the-shattering-peace/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Rachel Kushner\, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award\, for a reading and signing of her acclaimed novel Creation Lake\, available in paperback July 1st. This “wickedly entertaining” (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France is a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor. \n \nCreation Lake is a novel about a secret agent\, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and clean beauty who is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs\, and to her lover\, Lucien\, a young and well-born Parisian she has met by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone she targets\, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation\, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct. First\, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more. \nRachel Kushner is the author of the New York Times bestseller Creation Lake\, her latest novel; The Hard Crowd\, her acclaimed essay collection; and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room\, The Flamethrowers\, and Telex from Cuba\, as well as a book of short stories\, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Folio Prize\, and was twice a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Creation Lake was also longlisted for the National Book Award. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. \nMore information at: Rachel Kushner\, Creation Lake | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rachel-kushner-creation-lake/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Debbie Millman - Love Letter to a Garden
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Debbie Millman\, award-winning artist\, designer\, and the host of the podcast Design Matters\, will discuss her beautiful new book Love Letter to a Garden\, a visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. \n \nDebbie Millman always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless\, she kept trying. Over the years she came to realize that no one is a bad gardener—a garden is a journey that develops over time\, through space\, and evolves along with our hearts. In Love Letter to a Garden\, Debbie Millman shares her journey to make and grow a garden—and the plants she has collected along the way—a process that started with handed-down houseplants from beloved friends and a lone peony. \nDebbie Millman has been named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company\, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by GDUSA. Millman is an illustrator\, author\, educator\, and host of the podcast Design Matters. Broadcasting for 19 years\, Design Matters is one of the first and longest running podcasts in the world. The show won a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2011\, and Apple has named it one of their “All Time Favorites” three times. In 2023 the show won two Webby’s\, three Communicator Awards\, a Signal Award\, three awards from The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts\, and earned an Ambie nomination. \nMore information at: Debbie Millman\, Love Letter to a Garden | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-debbie-millman-love-letter-to-a-garden/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cat Bohannon - Eve
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents author Cat Bohannon who will be in-conversation with Vicky Oelze about Bohannon’s book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution—a myth-busting\, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved\, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is\, how it came to be\, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today. Now in paperback\, Eve is also available in an edition adapted for young adults. \n“A smart\, funny\, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman’s body\, Eve surprises\, educates\, and emboldens.” — Bonnie Garmus\, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry \n \nHow did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? • Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty\, when suddenly their scores plummet? • Is sexism useful for evolution? • And why\, seriously why\, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause? \nThese questions are producing some truly exciting science – and in Eve\, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit\, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex: “We need a kind of user’s manual for the female mammal. \nCat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American\, Mind\, Science Magazine\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, The Georgia Review\, The Story Collider\, and Poets Against the War. She lives with her family in Seattle. \nVicky Oelze is an associate professor in anthropology at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches subjects including human evolution\, archeological science and primatology. Dr. Oelze joined UCSC after completing her PhD in Archeological Science at Leiden University in the Netherlands and almost a decade of research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. Her archeological work spans five continents and ranges from the first farmers in prehistoric Europe to the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Her primatological research focuses on the dietary ecology of African great apes and how maternal investment in terms of breastfeeding varies between species and populations. \nMore information at: Cat Bohannon\, Eve | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-cat-bohannon-eve/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jennifer Finney Boylan | CLEAVAGE: MEN\, WOMEN\, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
DESCRIPTION:What is the difference between men and women? In her new book Cleavage: Men\, Women\, and the Space Between Us\, Jennifer Finney Boylan\, bestselling author of She’s Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult\, examines the divisions—as well as the common ground—between the genders\, and reflects on her own experiences\, both difficult and joyful\, as a transgender American. \n \nJennifer Finney Boylan is the author of nineteen books\, including Mad Honey\, coauthored with Jodi Picoult. Her memoir\, She’s Not There\, was the first bestselling work by a transgender American. Since 2014\, she has been the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University; she is also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College and the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She is the President of PEN America\, and from 2011 to 2018 she was a member of the Board of Directors of GLAAD\, including four years as national cochair. In 2022-23 she was a Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She graduated from Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins\, and she holds doctorates honoris causafrom Sarah Lawrence College\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University. For many years she was a contributing opinion writer for the opinion section of the New York Times. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, the Boston Globe\, Literary Hub\, Down East\, and many other publications. She lives in Maine and New York with her wife\, Deirdre. They have two children: a daughter\, Zai\, and a son\, Sean. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Jennifer Finney Boylan \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-jennifer-finney-boylan-cleavage-men-women-and-the-space-between-us/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chris Benner & Manuel Pastor - Charging Forward
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Chris Brenner and Manuel Pastor for a reading and signing of their new book Charging Forward: Lithium Valley\, Electric Vehicles\, and a Just Future—a clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. \n“Charging Forward brilliantly uses the Valley to illustrate what’s at stake as we move to a clean energy world. Clear-eyed that we cannot change the way we deliver power until we change who wields power\, Benner and Pastor offer both hard-headed analysis and hope for a just future.” —Van Jones \n \nChris Benner is the director of the Institute for Social Transformation and the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change at UC Santa Cruz\, where he is also the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship\, and a professor of environmental studies and sociology. He has co-authored five books with Manuel Pastor\, including Equity\, Growth and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas\, and Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nManuel Pastor is the director of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California where he is also a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity and the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change. He has co-authored five books with Chris Benner\, including Equity\, Growth and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas\, Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter\, and Charging Forward: Lithium Valley\, Electric Vehicles\, and a Just Future (The New Press). Pastor is also the author of State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future (The New Press). He lives in Los Angeles. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-benner-manuel-pastor-charging-forward/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Hive Live! Featuring Gary Young & Elizabeth Robinson
DESCRIPTION:The Hive Live! presents an evening of poetry with Gary Young and Elizabeth Robinson at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nGary Young is a poet\, artist\, and translator. He is the author of nine collections of poetry\, among them That’s What I Thought\, and American Analects\, both from Persea Books. His other books include Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese; Taken to Heart: 70 Poems from the Chinese; Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the California Arts Council\, among others. His print work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, and the Getty Center for the Arts. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nElizabeth Robinson is the author\, most recently\, for Excursive (Roof Books)\, Thirst & Sufeit (Threadsuns Press)\, and\, collaboratively with Susanne Dyckman\, Rendered Paradise (Apogee Press). In the past five years\, Robinson has received Editors’ Choice Awards from Scoundrel Time and New Letters\, and a Pushcart Prize. Vulnerabiity Index is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2025. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-hive-live-featuring-gary-young-elizabeth-robinson/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Dana Frank\, UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of History\, for a discussion about her new book What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“The most important book on the Great Depression in a generation. Dana Frank skillfully shows how working-class people experimented with new forms of organizing based on traditions of struggles against racism as well as class and gender oppression. Our understanding of the Great Depression and its contested legacies will never be the same thanks to this brilliant and timely book.” —Paul Ortiz\, author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \nDrawing on little-known stories of working people\, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depression era. In four stories of resilience\, mutual aid\, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression\, Professor Dana Frank explores how ordinary working people in the US turned to collective action to meet the crisis of the Great Depression and what we can learn from them today. Readers are introduced to: \n\nThe 7 daring Black women who worked as wet nurses and staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination.\nThe groups who used mutual aid\, cooperatives\, eviction protests\, and demands for government relief to meet their basic needs.\nThe million Mexican and Mexican American repatriados who were erased from mainstream historical memory\, while (often fictitious) white “Dust Bowl migrants” became enshrined.\nThe Black Legion\, a white supremacist fascist organization that saw racism\, antisemitism\, anti-Catholicism\, and fascism as the cure to the Depression.\n\nWhile capitalism crashed during the Great Depression\, racism did not and was\, in fact\, wielded by some to blame and oppress their neighbors. Patriarchy persisted\, too\, undermining the power of social movements and justifying women’s marginalization within them. For other ordinary people\, collective action gave them the means to survive and fight against such hostilities. \nWhat resulted were powerful new forms of horizontal reciprocity and solidarity that allowed people to provide each other with the bread\, beans\, and comradeship of daily life. The New Deal\, when it arrived\, provided vital resources to many\, but others were cut off from its full benefits\, especially if they were women or people of color. \nWhat Can We Learn from the Great Depression? shows us how we might look to the past to think about how we can shape the future of our own failed economy. These lessons can also help us imagine and build movements to challenge such an economy—and to transform the state as a whole—in service to the common good without replicating racism and patriarchy. \nDana Frank is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. A well-regarded senior historian\, she is the author of many books on labor\, women\, and social justice in the US and Honduras. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Guardian\, The Nation\, Foreign Affairs\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dana-frank-what-can-we-learn-from-the-great-depression/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed and bestselling author Kaveh Akbar for a discussion and signing of his phenomenal fiction debut Martyr!\, which Tommy Orange calls\, “An absolute jewel of a novel. A diamond. I haven’t loved a book this much in years. Kaveh’s writing is so thoroughly powerful and gorgeous you can feel it from where dreams come\, and in all over your brain\, and straight from the bottom of your heart. This book does everything. It is so entirely funny and sad and true and beautiful. Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \n“Akbar is a dazzling writer\, with bars like you wouldn’t believe . . . What Akbar pulls off in Martyr! is nothing short of miraculous.” —The New York Times Book Review \nA newly sober\, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants\, guided by the voices of artists\, poets\, and kings\, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying\, funny\, and wholly original\, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction. \nCyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk\, an addict\, and a poet\, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying\, and toward his mother\, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed. \nKaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith\, art\, ourselves\, others. \nKaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, The Best American Poetry\, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf\, in addition to a chapbook\, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kaveh-akbar-martyr/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gary Griggs: California Catastrophes
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Gary Griggs\, local author and Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz\, for a discussion and signing of his new book California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State. This comprehensive account of California’s numerous and perilous natural disasters explores how a unique combination of forces has affected Californians throughout the state’s history and carries a sobering message about our short disaster memories. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \n“Griggs has long been a voice for being prepared for that extreme event just around the corner. He has done it again with California Catastrophes\, a must-read for every long-term Californian.” —John Laird\, California State Senator and former California Secretary for Natural Resources \nCalifornia has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state\, but this hasn’t deterred people from moving here. Entire California towns and regions frequently contend with destruction caused by earthquakes\, floods\, landslides and debris flows\, and sea-level rise and coastal erosion. As Gary Griggs demonstrates in California Catastrophes\, few years go by without a disaster of some kind\, and residents often rebuild in the same locations that were just destroyed. \nConsidering the current climate crisis and increasing environmental inequalities\, the stakes are growing ever higher. This book dives into the history of the state’s vulnerability to natural hazards\, why and where these events occur\, and how Californians can better prepare going forward. A mix of photographs and maps both historical and contemporary orients readers within the state’s sprawling landscapes and provides glimpses of some of the geologic risks in each region. With the final chapter\, Griggs issues a call to action and challenges readers to envision a safer\, more equitable\, and sustainable future. \nGary Griggs is Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he has taught for more than fifty years. His research and teaching have focused on natural disasters and the California coast.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-griggs-california-catastrophes/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Martin Rizzo-Martinez: We Are Not Animals
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Martin Rizzo-Martinez\, assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz\, for a discussion of We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival\, Rebellion\, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California\, now available in paperback. By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists\, archaeologists\, ecologists\, and psychologists\, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions of who the Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz region were and how they survived through the nineteenth century. \n \nAbout We Are Not Animals \nBetween 1770 and 1900 the linguistically and culturally diverse Ohlone and Yokuts tribes adapted to and expressed themselves politically and culturally through three distinct colonial encounters with Spain\, Mexico\, and the United States. In We Are Not Animals Martin Rizzo-Martinez traces tribal\, familial\, and kinship networks through the missions’ chancery registry records to reveal stories of individuals and families and shows how ethnic and tribal differences and politics shaped strategies of survival within the diverse population that came to live at Mission Santa Cruz. \nWe Are Not Animals illuminates the stories of Indigenous individuals and families to reveal how Indigenous politics informed each of their choices within a context of immense loss and violent disruption. \nMartin Rizzo-Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Film & Digital Media Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the history of Indigenous resistance and survival in Santa Cruz County during the 19th century. He has worked closely with Bay Area Indigenous communities\, like the Amah Mutsun\, in his research and collaborative projects. His book has received multiple awards. Among other media projects\, he co-produces a podcast entitled Challenging Colonialism. Learn more at https://rizzomartinez.com/. \nPurchase your own copy of We Are Not Animals and learn more about the event at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – We Are Not Animals \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-rizzo-martinez-we-are-not-animals/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Angie Sijun Lou & Karen Tei Yamashita - Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Angie Sijun Lou and Karen Tei Yamashita for the launch of Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies—a new anthology edited by Lou and featuring ten new stories from Yamashita\, all centered around Santa Cruz’s history\, along with eight works of nonfiction from authors including Brandon Shimoda and Juliana Spahr. \n \nAbout Dark Soil \nEight authors’ works of personal nonfiction join with ten new stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small. Faced with a scant historical record in her urge to reconstruct the layered past of Santa Cruz\, Karen Tei Yamashita turns to fiction set amidst its architecture. Ten stories explore the California city to animate what might have been\, to build the fullness of lives forgotten\, and to honor their living with story and possibility. Following this impulse into the realm of nonfiction\, eight other writers chart their own counternarratives of place through the greater United States. Diverging and converging in their scale and scope\, from an unnamed lot on the bank of the Ohio River to the territory of Guam\, these works use language as an instrument of excavation\, uncovering layers of hurt and desire concealed in the land. \nAngie Sijun Lou is a Kundiman Fellow and a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her writings have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, Joyland\, Best Small Fictions\, and Gulf Coast. She lives in Oakland. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books (including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently Sansei and Sensibility)\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature\, and a United States Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nPurchase your own copy of Dark Soil at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Dark Soil \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angie-sijun-lou-and-karen-tei-yamashita-dark-soil-fictions-and-mythographies/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Charles Duhigg - Supercommunicators
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Charles Duhigg (The Power of Habit) for a reading and signing of his new book\, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection\, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life. \nCharles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College\, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences\, National Journalism\, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and other publications\, was previously a senior editor at The New York Times\, and occasionally hosts the podcast How To! \nThis free event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nCome inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries\, and fails\, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators\, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. \nCommunication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak\, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?)\, emotional (How do we feel?)\, and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having\, you’re unlikely to connect. \nSupercommunicators know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation\, and how to hear the complex emotions\, subtle negotiations\, and deeply held beliefs that color so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences\, our values\, our emotional lives—and how we see ourselves\, and others—shape every discussion\, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work. In this book\, you will learn why some people are able to make themselves heard\, and to hear others\, so clearly. \nWith his storytelling that takes us from the writers’ room of The Big Bang Theory to the couches of leading marriage counselors\, Duhigg shows readers how to recognize these three conversations—and teaches us the tips and skills we need to navigate them more successfully. In the end\, he delivers a simple but powerful lesson: With the right tools\, we can connect with anyone.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charles-duhigg-supercommunicators/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights\, Inciting Joy) and local poet Chris Mattingly for an evening of poetry\, plus a Q&A and a book signing. \nRoss Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays\, The Book of Delights\, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new collection of essays\, Inciting Joy\, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022. \n  \nChris Mattingly is a poet in Santa Cruz. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry\, Scuffletown (Typecast\, 2013) and The Catalyst (Pickpocket\, 2018) as well as over two dozen limited-run chapbooks and artist’ books. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Greensboro Review\, Louisville Review\, Trigger\, Lumberyard\, Still\, Some Call it Ballin’\, and Forklift\, OHIO. Chris is co-founding editor of alla testa\, a kitchen press devoted to producing far out field recordings\, hand-made artist’ books\, and letter press chapbooks. Some of his work is on display at thepoetchrismattingly.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-reading-with-ross-gay-chris-mattingly-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Breen - Tripping on Utopia
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Benjamin Breen\, associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz\, for a discussion and signing of his new book\, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead\, the Cold War\, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science. \nBenjamin Breen is the author of The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade\, winner of the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. He is an associate professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nThis free event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Please register below so we can plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you! \n \nFar from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as\, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the ’40s and ’50s\, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture\, where they were not only legal\, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. \nAt the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists—and star-crossed lovers—Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster\, Mead and Bateson made it their life’s mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion\, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work\, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson’s partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century\, linking drug researchers with CIA agents\, outsider sexologists\, and the founders of the Information Age. \nAs we follow Mead and Bateson’s fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali\, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War\, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges. \nYou can purchase your own copy of Tripping On Utopia at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/benjamin-breen-tripping-on-utopia/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nathan Hill– Wellness
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Nathan Hill\, best-selling author of The Nix\, for a reading and signing of Wellness—a poignant and witty novel about marriage\, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness\, and the stories that bind us together. From the gritty ’90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria\, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight\, irony\, and heart. \n \n“A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds in its breadth and intimacy.” —Brit Bennett\, author of The Vanishing Half \nWhen Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the ’90s\, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight\, each eager to claim a place in Chicago’s thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life\, and alongside the challenges of parenting\, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups\, polyamorous would-be suitors\, Facebook wars\, and something called Love Potion Number Nine. \nFor the first time\, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other\, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons\, from unfulfilled career ambitions to painful childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process\, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate\, personal excavations\, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other. \nNathan Hill’s best-selling debut novel\, The Nix\, was named the number one book of 2016 by Entertainment Weekly and one of the year’s best books by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, NPR\, Slate\, and many others. It was the winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times and was published worldwide in more than two dozen languages. A native Iowan\, Hill lives with his wife in Naples\, Florida.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nathan-hill-wellness/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rosanna Xia: California Against the Sea
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes environmental journalist Rosanna Xia\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist\, for a conversation with UCSC professor Gary Griggs about her new book California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Just as the coast defines the liminal world between land and sea\, so too does Rosanna Xia’s remarkable book exist in the overlap between development and erosion\, between geological forces and human desire\, between our ambitious past and our tenuous future. It’s viscerally urgent\, thoroughly reported\, and compellingly written—a must-read for our uncertain times.” —Ed Yong\, author of An Immense World \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nRosanna Xia investigates the impacts of engineered landscapes\, the market pressures of development\, and the ecological activism and political scrimmages that have carved our contemporary coastline—and foretell even greater changes to our shores. From the beaches of the Mexican border up to the sheer-cliffed North Coast\, the voices of Indigenous leaders\, community activists\, small-town mayors\, urban engineers\, and tenacious environmental scientists commingle. Together\, they chronicle the challenges and urgency of forging a climate-wise future. Xia’s investigation takes us to Imperial Beach\, Los Angeles\, Pacifica\, Marin City\, San Francisco\, and beyond\, weighing the rivaling arguments\, agreements\, compromises\, and visions governing the State of California’s commitment to a coast for all. Through graceful reportage\, she charts how the decisions we make today will determine where we go tomorrow: headlong into natural disaster\, or toward an equitable refashioning of coastal stewardship. \nRosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times\, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting\, and her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. \nGary Griggs is a Distinguished Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of 13 books\, including most recently\, The Ominous Ocean (2022). The California Coastal Commission and Sunset named him one of California’s Coastal Heroes in 2009\, and in 2010 he was elected to the California Academy of Sciences. Gary is also a member of the California Ocean Protection Council’s Science Advisory Team and 2023 Sea-Level Rise Task Force.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rosanna-xia-california-against-the-sea/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Oliver Jeffers: Begin Again
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes globally renowned artist and internationally bestselling author Oliver Jeffers for an event celebrating his new book BEGIN AGAIN: The Story of How We Got Here and Where We Might Go. Take a visually stunning journey through humankind’s history as Jeffers examines our shared motivations for existence in his first illustrated book aimed at a broad audience. This event\, cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, includes a solo presentation by Jeffers\, a moderated Q&A\, and book signing. \nPlease visit Bookshop Santa Cruz’s website for info on attending this event: \nhttps://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/oliver-jeffers \nIn his first illustrated book created specifically with a wider audience in mind\, Oliver Jeffers shares a very brief history of humanity\, reviews our current position\, and shares his dreams for where we go from here. With his bold\, iconic art\, executed in a simple two-color palette\, Oliver Jeffers looks at our shared motivations for existence to follow the human path from the dawn of our species through history\, sharing profound\, sometimes poignant\, commentary on our present\, and then offers a challenge: Where do we go from here? How can we create new stories and new systems that allow all of humanity to flourish? How can we journey toward a collective and robust future? \nIllustrated in his world-renowned art style\, Oliver Jeffers’ reflection on the patterns that have led us to where we are today\, the stories we have governed ourselves by\, and those we might adopt going forward\, is insightful\, moving\, and powerful. A must-have for anyone who wants the next generation to inherit a world to be proud of. \nOliver Jeffers makes art and tells stories. His books include How to Catch a Star; Lost and Found\, which was the recipient of the prestigious Nestle Children’s Book Prize Gold Award in the UK and was later adapted into an award-winning animated film; and the New York Times bestsellers Here We Are\, What We’ll Build\, Stuck\, This Moose Belongs to Me\, and Once Upon an Alphabet. He is also\, of course\, the illustrator of the #1 smash hits The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home\, both written by Drew Daywalt. His fine art is world-renowned and his dip-art exhibitions are much sought-after events. Originally from Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, Oliver now splits his time between Belfast and Brooklyn\, New York. Follow him @OliverJeffers.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/oliver-jeffers-begin-again/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang - Land of Milk and Honey
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author C Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills Is Gold) for a reading and signing of Land of Milk and Honey\, her rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and\, indirectly\, the world. Zhang will be in conversation with writer Angie Sijun Lou at this event. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“The way Zhang writes about food and desire and human failings is exquisite—sensually detailed\, at times visceral. This is a tremendous novel that explores the way people will break when the world itself is broken. Land of Milk and Honey is truly exceptional.” —Roxane Gay \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nA smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. \nThere\, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite\, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste\, touch\, and her own body. \nIn this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool\, seductive violence\, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate. \nSensuous and surprising\, joyous and bitingly sharp\, told in language as alluring as it is original\, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception\, privilege and faith\, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all\, it is a love letter to food\, to wild delight\, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite. \nC Pam Zhang is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold\, winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature[CE1]\, long-listed for the Booker Prize\, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize\, and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow. \nAngie Sijun Lou is a Ph.D. Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz. Her writing has appeared in ZYZZYVA\, American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review\, Best Small Fictions\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Kundiman\, Bread Loaf\, Tin House\, California Arts Council\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-pam-zhang-land-of-milk-and-honey/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:James Ellroy - The Enchanters
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author James Ellroy (American Tabloid\, LA Confidential\, My Dark Places) for a reading and signing of his new book The Enchanters\, “A descent into the conspiracy hellhole of Hollywood in the early 1960s.” —Kirkus Reviews. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Ellroy masterfully orchestrates his vast array of subplots to create a tour de force of vibe and atmosphere. That ambience\, plus his signature jazzy turns of phrase\, will thrill longtime fans. . . . Fascinating … a hell of a ride.” —Publishers Weekly \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nJames Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing\, behind-the-headlines crime epic. \nLos Angeles\, August 4\, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. \nThe freewheeling Freddy O: tainted ex-cop\, defrocked private eye\, dope fiend\, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim “Opportunity is love.” Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters\, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe’s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create — and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness. \nIt’s the Summer of ’62\, baby. Freddy O’s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. It’s just a shot away. \nThe Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed\, brilliant\, provocative\, profanely hilarious\, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama and an unparalleled thrill ride. It is\, resoundingly\, the great American crime novel. \nJames Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid\, The Cold Six Thousand\, and Blood’s a Rover\, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia\, The Big Nowhere\, L.A. Confidential\, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-ellroy-the-enchanters/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield - The Asking: New & Selected Poems
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed poet Jane Hirshfield for a reading and signing of her collection\, The Asking: New & Selected Poems. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Asking is the long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine)\, assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both perishing and beloved\, dazzling “even now\, even here.” \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nIn an era of algorithm\, assertion\, silo\, and induced distraction\, Jane Hirshfield’s poems bring a much-needed awakening response\, actively countering narrowness. The Asking takes its title from the close of one of its thirty-one new poems: “don’t despair of this falling world\, not yet / didn’t it give you the asking.” Interrogating language and life\, pondering beauty amid bewilderment and transcendence amid transience\, Hirshfield offers a signature investigation of the conditions\, contradictions\, uncertainties\, and astonishments that shape our existence. A leading advocate for the biosphere and the alliance of science and imagination\, she brings to both inner and outer quandaries an abiding compass: the choice to embrace what is\, to face with courage\, curiosity\, and a sense of kinship whatever comes. \nIn poems that consider the smallest ant and the vastness of time\, hunger and bounty\, physics\, war\, and love in myriad forms\, this collection–drawing from nine previous books and five decades of writing–brings the insights and slant-lights that come to us only through poetry’s arc\, delve\, and tact; through a vision both close and sweeping; through music-inflected thought and recombinant leap. \nWith its quietly magnifying brushwork and numinous clarities\, The Asking expands our awareness of both breakage’s grief and the possibility for repair. \nJane Hirshfield is the author of ten collections of poetry and two now-classic collections of essays on poetry’s deep workings\, and the editor of four co-translated books presenting world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield is one of American poetry’s central spokespersons for concerns about the biosphere and interconnection. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the Academy of American Poets; the Poetry Center Book Award and the California Book Award; her books have been long- and finalist-listed for the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her work\, translated into seventeen languages\, appears in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jane-hirshfield-the-asking-new-selected-poems/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nina Simon: Mother - Daughter Murder Night
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes local author Nina Simon for a launch event to celebrate her captivating new novel\, Mother-Daughter Murder Night—a fun\, fresh\, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“A mysterious murder set in the tranquil waters of Elkhorn Slough is not the only tension of local writer Nina Simon’s exquisite debut novel. It is the fraught\, but ultimately loving and powerful relationship between three generations of women who work to solve the crime that gives this story the heart to match the suspense. Filled with wit\, adventure\, emotional insight\, and an abundance of nature from our beloved shores\, this page-turning mystery is the height of effective storytelling.” —Casey Coonerty Protti\, owner Bookshop Santa Cruz \n“Nina Simon’s Mother-Daughter Murder Night is the rarest of novels. A lively and tender story of family that Simon deftly transforms into an edge-of-your-seat murder mystery set against the polarizing backdrop of land conservation\, no novel has ever made family drama (or murder) this much fun. One part The Maid and one part family drama à la The Nest\, Mother-Daughter Murder Night is a resounding and impressive triumph. I fell in love with Tiny\, Lana\, and Beth immediately\, and so will you.” —Katy Hays\, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nNothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence\, impeccable taste\, and the L.A. real estate empire she’s built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city\, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack\, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage—and hoping that boredom won’t kill her before the cancer does. Then Jack—tiny in stature but fiercely independent—stumbles upon a dead body while kayaking near their bungalow. Jack quickly becomes a suspect in the homicide investigation\, and the Rubicon women are thrown into chaos. Beth thinks Lana should focus on recovery\, but Lana has a better idea. She’ll pull on her wig\, find the true murderer\, protect her family\, and prove she still has power. With Jack and Beth’s help\, Lana uncovers a web of lies\, family vendettas\, and land disputes lurking beneath the surface of a community populated by folksy conservationists and wealthy ranchers. But as their amateur snooping advances into ever-more dangerous territory\, the headstrong Rubicon women must learn do the one thing they’ve always resisted: depend on each other. \nNina Simon has worn many hats: NASA engineer\, slam poet\, mystery game designer\, museum director\, and global nonprofit founder. She is an Ashoka fellow and the founder of OF/BY/FOR ALL\, a global nonprofit that creates digital tools to help civic and cultural organizations become more inclusive\, relevant\, and sustainable. Nina is an in-demand writer and speaker about community participation in museums\, libraries\, parks\, and theaters. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal\, New York Times\, NPR\, and on the TEDx stage. Born and raised in Los Angeles\, Nina now lives off-the-grid in the Santa Cruz mountains with her husband and daughter. Mother-Daughter Murder Night is her first novel.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nina-simon-mother-daughter-murder-night/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Leaning Toward Light: An Evening of Poetry with Tess Taylor\, Danusha Laméris & Ellen Bass
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes poets Tess Taylor\, Danusha Laméris\, and Ellen Bass for a reading of their beautiful anthology Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands that Tend Them\, an inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow\, tend\, and heal—an evocative celebration of our connection to the green world. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Hive Poetry Collective and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“This collection brings together many of my favorite writers to celebrate the limitless offerings of nature; wandering through its pages feels like taking a long stroll through a beautiful garden.”\n— Alice Waters\, chef\, author\, food activist\, and founder of Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard Project \n“As Aimee Nezhukamatathil reminds us in the delightful and informative foreword to this bountiful collection\, the word anthology means a gathering of flowers. How perfect is this bouquet! Diverse and delightful. At turns\, tender and tough. I’m sure I’ll be reading the poems gathered in this anthology for years to come.”\n— Camille T. Dungy\, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nMuch like reading a good poem\, caring for plants brings comfort\, solace\, and joy to many. In this new poetry anthology\, Leaning Toward Light\, acclaimed poet and avid gardener Tess Taylor brings together a diverse range of contemporary voices to offer poems that celebrate that joyful connection to the natural world. Several of the most well-known contemporary writers\, as well as some of poetry’s exciting rising stars\, contribute to this collection including Ross Gay\, Jericho Brown\, Mark Doty\, Jane Hirshfield\, Ada Limón\, Danusha Laméris\, Naomi Shihab Nye\, Garrett Hongo\, Ellen Bass\, and James Crews. A foreword by Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, reflective pauses and personal recipes from some of the contributing poets\, along with original\, whimsical illustrations by Melissa Castrillon\, and a ribbon bookmark complete this stunning\, hardcover gift format. \nTess Taylor\, an avid gardener\, is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry including Work & Days\, which was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Kenyon Review\, Poetry\, Tin House\, The Times Literary Supplement\, CNN\, and the New York Times. Taylor has been Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University in Northern Ireland\, and the Anne Spencer Poet-in-Residence at Randolph College. She has also served as on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered for over a decade. Taylor lives in El Cerrito\, California\, where she tends to fruit trees and backyard chickens. \nDanusha Laméris’ first book\, The Moons of August (2014)\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry\, The New York Times\, Orion\, The American Poetry Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her second book\, Bonfire Opera\, (University of Pittsburgh Press\, Pitt Poetry Series)\, was a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Award and the winner of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. A recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award\, and the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, California\, she currently co-leads Poetry of Resilience webinars with James Crews\, as well as the HearthFire Writing Community\, and is on the faculty of Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA program. \nEllen Bass is co-author of the best-selling The Courage to Heal\, which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into nine languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry\, including The Human Line and Indigo\, and her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies\, including The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Yorker\, and The New Republic. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she lives in Santa Cruz\, and teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/leaning-toward-light-an-evening-of-poetry-with-tess-taylor-danusha-lameris-ellen-bass/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Susan Casey: The Underworld
DESCRIPTION: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\, and of the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. \n“A fascinating account of the ocean below its twilight zone.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \nThis event is cosponsored by Seymour Marine Discovery Center Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nFor all of human history\, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror\, an unknown realm that evoked a singular\, compelling question: What’s down there? Unable to answer this for centuries\, people believed the deep was a sinister realm of fiendish creatures and deadly peril. But now\, cutting-edge technologies allow scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface\, and we are beginning to understand this strange and exotic underworld: A place of soaring mountains\, smoldering volcanoes\, and valleys 7\,000 feet deeper than Everest is high\, where tectonic plates collide and separate\, and extraordinary life forms operate under different rules. Far from a dark void\, the deep is a vibrant realm that’s home to pink gelatinous predators and shimmering creatures a hundred feet long and ancient animals with glass skeletons and sharks that live for half a millennium–among countless other marvels. \nSusan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe\, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet\, interviewing the marine geologists\, marine biologists\, and oceanographers who are searching for knowledge in this vast unseen realm. She takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of deep-sea exploration\, from the myths and legends of the ancient world to storied shipwrecks we can now reach on the bottom\, to the first intrepid bathysphere pilots\, to the scientists who are just beginning to understand the mind-blowing complexity and ecological importance of the quadrillions of creatures who live in realms long thought to be devoid of life. \nThroughout this journey\, she learned how vital the deep is to the future of the planet\, and how urgent it is that we understand it in a time of increasing threats from climate change\, industrial fishing\, pollution\, and the mining companies that are also exploring its depths. The Underworld is Susan Casey’s most beautiful and thrilling book yet\, a gorgeous evocation of the natural world and a powerful call to arms. \nSusan Casey\, author of New York Times bestseller’s Voices in the Ocean\, The Wave\, and The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks and is the former editor in chief of O\, The Oprah Magazine. She is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in the Best American Science and Nature Writing\, Best American Sports Writing\, and Best American Magazine Writing anthologies; and has appeared in Esquire\, Sports Illustrated\, Fortune\, and Outside. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susan-casey-the-underworld/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh\, Lapvona
DESCRIPTION: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 a savage test. \nLittle Marek\, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd\, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life’s few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife\, Ina\, who suckled him when he was a baby\, as she did so many of the village’s children. Ina’s gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. Her gift often brings her the transmission of sacred knowledge on levels far beyond those available to other villagers\, however religious they might be. For some people\, Ina’s home in the woods outside of the village is a place to fear and to avoid\, a godless place. \nAmong their number is Father Barnabas\, the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor\, Villiam\, whose hilltop manor contains a secret embarrassment of riches. The people’s desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by Villiam and the priest\, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord’s family\, new and occult forces upset the old order. By year’s end\, the veil between blindness and sight\, life and death\, the natural world and the spirit world\, will prove to be very thin indeed. \n \nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands\, her second and third novels\, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella\, McGlue. She lives in Southern California. \nMicah Perks is the author of a memoir\, a short story collection\, and two novels. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize\, residencies at Blue Mountain Center and MacDowell\, and the Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal. The Guardian included her last book in the Top Ten Novels about the Apocalypse. She directs the creative writing program at UCSC. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ottessa-moshfegh-lapvona/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea - Good Night\, Irene
DESCRIPTION: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 is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Good Night\, Irene is a beautiful\, heartfelt novel that celebrates the intense power and durability of female friendship while shining a light on one of the fascinating lost women’s stories of World War II.” —Kristin Hannah \n \nWhat if a friendship forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever? In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription\, Good Night\, Irene is a searing epic based on the magnificent and true story of heroic Red Cross women. \nIn 1943\, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiance in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford\, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women\, nicknamed Donut Dollies\, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the font line\, providing camaraderie and a tast of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle. \nAfter D-Day\, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger\, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dororothy and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans\, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope\, which becomes more precarious by the day\, is for all three of them to survive the war intact. \nTaking as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service\, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances\, Good Night\, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea’s “gifts as a storyteller are prodigious” (NPR). \nA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonfiction The Devil’s Highway\, now in its 30th paperback printing\, Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of numerous other works of nonfiction\, poetry\, and fiction\, including the national bestsellers The Hummingbird’s Daughter and The House of Broken Angels\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award\, among many other honors\, he lives outside Chicago and teachers at the University of Illinois Chicago.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/luis-alberto-urrea-good-night-irene/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Reading with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights) and local poet Chris Mattingly for a very special evening of poetry and conversation. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRoss Gay’s newest book is Inciting Joy:\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, prize winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other\, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection\, and also\, crucially\, how we can expand it. \nIn “We Kin\,” Gay thinks about the garden (es­pecially around August\, when the zucchini and tomatoes come in) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in “Share Your Bucket\,” he explores skateboard­ing’s reclamation of public spaces; he considers the costs of masculinity in “Grief Suite”; and in “Through My Tears I Saw\,” he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying. \nIn an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace\, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? \nTaking a clear-eyed look at injustice\, political polarization\, and the destruction of the natural world\, Gay shows us how we might resist\, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild\, unpredictable\, transgressive\, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact\, it just might help us survive. \n  \n \n  \nRoss Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights: Essays and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard\, a non-profit\, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University. \n  \nChris Mattingly is a poet in Santa Cruz. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry\, Scuffletown (Typecast\, 2013) and The Catalyst (Pickpocket\, 2018) as well as over two dozen limited-run chapbooks and artist’ books. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Greensboro Review\, Louisville Review\, Trigger\, Lumberyard\, Still\, Some Call it Ballin’\, and Forklift\, OHIO. Chris is co-founding editor of alla testa\, a kitchen press devoted to producing far out field recordings\, hand-made artist’ books\, and letter press chapbooks. Some of his work is on display at thepoetchrismattingly.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/in-store-event-a-reading-with-ross-gay-chris-mattingly/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth McKenzie\, The Dog of the North
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie’s highly-anticipated new novel\, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Even funnier\, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last\, The Portable Veblen\, this is a screwball comedy worthy of a Preston Sturgis screenplay. You will be surprised\, delighted\, and grateful to be aboard The Dog of the North with the admirable Penny Rush as she faces every challenge her wild and crazy family can throw at her. A book that lifts the spirits.” —Karen Joy Fowler\, author of Booth \nPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. \nElizabeth McKenzie\, beloved novelist of California and its idiosyncrasies\, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North\, an old van with gingham curtains\, a piñata\, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother\, and what is “the scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? \nThis slyly humorous\, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs\, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most\, we can be brought closer to our truest selves. \n  \n \n  \nElizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize; a collection\, Stop That Girl\, shortlisted for The Story Prize; and the novel MacGregor Tells the World\, a Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and was recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. \n  \nKaren Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel\, The Jane Austen Book Club\, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize\, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel Booth published in March 2022. She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. Fowler also supports a chimp named Caesar who lives at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/64326/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jane Smiley - A Dangerous Business
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in the 1850’s\, in which two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Roxane Gay says\, “The forthcoming Jane Smiley novel\, A Dangerous Business\, is so outstanding. Her sentences are sublime.” This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n \n“A remarkable story of the California gold rush and a pair of sex worker sleuths . . . The vivid historical details and vibrant characters bring Smiley’s setting to glorious life. This seductive entertainment is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly \nMonterey\, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight\, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life\, at least at first. The madam\, Mrs. Parks\, is kind\, the men are (relatively) well behaved\, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town\, a darkness descends that she can’t resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean\, and inspired by her reading\, especially by Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin\, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer\, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. \nEliza and Jean are determined not just to survive\, but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West–a bewitching combination of beauty and danger–as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says\, Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business\, but between you and me\, being a woman is a dangerous business\, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise … \nJane Smiley is the author of numerous novels\, including A Thousand Acres\, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, and the Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck\, Early Warning\, and Golden Age. She is the author as well of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jane-smiley-a-dangerous-business/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Patrick Radden Keefe\, Empire of Pain & Rogues
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe will visit Santa Cruz for a discussion about his most recent books Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (in paperback October 18th) and Rogues: True Stories of Grifters\, Killers\, Rebels and Crooks. Empire of Pain is a grand\, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family\, famed for their philanthropy\, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Rogues is a collecton of twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue that showcase Keefe’s work of a reporter at the top of his game. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n \n“A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours. Rogues is a collection of Keefe’s New Yorker articles about criminals and con artists and more. It’s highly entertaining\, of course\, but what shines through most brightly is Keefe’s fascination with what makes us human even when we’re at our most imperfect.” —Los Angeles Times \n“I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book\, I read it. Every time he writes an article\, I read it … he’s a national treasure.” —Rachel Maddow \nPATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain\, winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize\, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review\, The Washington Post\, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal\, and was named one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade” by Entertainment Weekly. He’s also the author of two earlier nonfiction books: The Snakehead and Chatter. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters\, Killers\, Rebels and Crooks. \nHis work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change\, an 8-part podcast series\, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and heavy metal music during the Cold War\, and was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Guardian.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patrick-radden-keefe-empire-of-pain-rogues/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit\, Orwell's Roses
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit to the store for a discussion and signing of her most recent book\, Orwell’s Roses (in paperback October 18th). This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nBookshop’s head book buyer\, Melinda\, says: “The gift of Rebecca Solnit is that while she writes about Orwell and his roses\, she also writes beyond them\, touching on tangential subjects with an effortless grace that is far-ranging and ever-connecting. Coming upon the surviving roses that George Orwell planted in 1936\, Solnit writes a captivating series of essays that explores Orwell’s life\, the horticulture and literature of roses\, and somehow both remarkably and classically Solnit\, how one finds balance in the beauty and struggle of 20th century humanity and today.” \nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence and the nonfiction A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-solnit-orwells-roses/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information at: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/ottessamoshfegh2020 \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by May 2nd. \nDeath in Her Hands comes from one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home. \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nOttessa Moshfegh is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, a New York Times bestseller; Homesick for Another World\, a New York Times Book Review notable book of the year; Eileen\, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; and McGlue\, which won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her stories have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, Children of the Land
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. Castillo will be in conversation with Nathan Osorio at this event\, which is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. A portion of the sales of Children of the Land will be donated to the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County’s Immigration Program. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nNathan Xavier Osorio is the son of a Mexican grocer and Nicaraguan nurse. His poetry and translations have appeared in BOMB\, The Offing\, The Grief Diaries\, Boston Review\, and elsewhere. His reviews and interviews featuring poets such as Juan Felipe Herrera and Rigoberto González have appeared in Columbia Journal\, UC Santa Cruz’s The Humanities Institute\, Publishers Weekly\, and Letras Latinas’ La Bloga. His chapbook\, The Last Town Before the Mojave\, was recently selected as a finalist for the 2019 Poetry Society of America 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship by Evie Shockley and was previously selected as a finalist for the 2016 Atlas Review Chapbook Contest. In 2019\, he was also selected as a semi-finalist for 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest. He is currently a PhD student in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 9th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-children-of-the-land/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lit Quake
DESCRIPTION:Funny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird \nIt’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life with noted writers Elizabeth  McKenzie\, Micah Perks\, Peggy Townsend\, Liza Monroy and Wallace Baine? Moderated by Dan White and Amy Ettinger. This event is co-presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nIn honor of Litquake’s 20th anniversary in 2019\, the festival is holding 20 events in 20 cities nationwide – including this Santa Cruz event! Read more about Litquake\, celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary\, here. \nAbout the writers: \nElizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Portable Veblen was longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction and received the California Book Award for fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Tin House\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and others. \nMicah Perks is the author of four books\, most recently a book of linked short stories\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape and the novel What Becomes Us\, winner of an Independent Publisher’s Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, residencies at MacDowell and Blue Mountain Center\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. \nWallace Baine is an award-winning journalist and arts writer who regularly contributes to Santa Cruz Good Times\, Metro Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Chronicle.  His work has been syndicated in newspapers nationwide and his fiction has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader\, the Chicago Quarterly Review\, and as part of the Santa Cruz Noir collection of short stories. His most recent book is a history of Bookshop Santa Cruz called A Light in the Midst of Darkness. \nPeggy Townsend is an award-winning newspaper journalist and author of the bestselling 2018 mystery novel\, See Her Run and its follow-up\, The Thin Edge\, both published by Thomas &  Mercer. As a reporter\, she has covered serial killers\, murder trials and once chased an escaped murderer through a graveyard at midnight. When she isn’t outdoors\, she’s either writing magazine profiles for UC Santa Cruz or working on her third novel. She divides her time between Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe. \nLiza Monroy is the author of three books: the novel Mexican High\, the memoir The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend in America and What It Taught Us About Love\, and the essay collection Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, the LA Times\, The Washington Post\, O\, Marie Claire\, Jezebel\, Catamaran\, and other publications. One of her columns for the New York Times‘ “Modern Love” will appear in this fall’s anthology of the “most popular and unforgettable essays” of the series. She teaches writing at UC Santa Cruz and lives downtown with her husband\, two tiny humans\, a pug and unruly potbellied pig Señor Bacon. Currently\, she is writing her second novel\, a dark comedy of technology and obsession.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lit-quake/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Téa Obreht - Inland: A Novel
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome Téa Obreht\, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife\, back to the store for a reading and signing of her new novel\, INLAND—an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape\, a stunning tale of perseverance and family\, and a love letter to the complicated and glorious American West. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn the lawless\, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893\, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband\, a newspaperman who has gone in search of water for the parched household\, and her elder sons\, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time (and enduring her thirst) with her youngest son\, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home\, and her husband’s seventeen-year-old cousin\, who communes with spirits. \nLurie is an immigrant—a man born under Ottoman rule who comes to America as a child—and a former outlaw who is haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him\, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected companion who inspires a momentous expedition across the West. The way in which Nora’s and Lurie’s stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel. \nTéa Obreht is the author of The Tiger’s Wife\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. An international bestseller\, it has sold over a million copies worldwide\, with rights sold in 37 countries. Obreht was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and was named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. She was the 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and was a recipient of the 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She was born in Belgrade\, in the former Yugoslavia\, in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Hunter College. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 21st.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tea-obreht-inland-a-novel/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong\, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
DESCRIPTION:We welcome award winning author Ocean Vuong (Night Sky with Exit Wounds) for a reading of his highly acclaimed debut novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, named a best book of summer by The Washington Post\, Publishers Weekly\, Vulture\, Thrillist\, Entertainment Weekly\, Elle\, and more. \n“In this achingly beautiful novel\, a young Vietnamese American writes a letter to his abusive mother about his struggle to find love and a sense of identity. In the process\, he comes to appreciate the struggles of her life\, too.” —The Washington Post \nOcean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds\, winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have also been featured in The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, The Nation\, New Republic\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, he currently lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel. \nOcean Vuong’s poetry collection\, Night Sky with Exit Wounds\, marked the arrival of an incomparable talent. His searing\, intimate poems\, infused with his love of language\, grappled with memories of war and displacement\, coming of age as a young gay man\, and daily life in Vietnam and America. Named a best book of 2016 by dozens of outlets from The New York Times to NPR to The San Francisco Chronicle\, the collection was also the recipient of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Whiting Award. Readers and critics alike fell in love with Vuong’s lyricism and the deep humanity that runs through all his work. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by June 15th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ocean-vuong-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-a-novel/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Carolyn Burke\, Foursome
DESCRIPTION:THI joins Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book\, Foursome\, a captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. \nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition—the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene—and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \n“The lives of a quartet of some of the most influential painters and photographers of the early 20th century are chronicled in this intimate and exhaustively researched group biography. [Foursome] offers detailed insight into one of the most important periods in American art.” —Publishers Weekly \nCAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC)\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 11th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-carolyn-burke-foursome/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dana Frank\, "The Long Honduran Night"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book\, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance\, repression\, and U.S. policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup.\nThis powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya\, told in part through first-person experiences\, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first\, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup\, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second\, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement\, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States.\nAlthough it is full of terrible things\, this is not a horror story: the book directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless people sob in the face of unexplained violence. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges with roots in political processes\, and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them. \nDana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005; repr. Haymarket 2016); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon\, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (Cambridge\, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (City Lights\, 2007); and\, with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley\, Three Strikes: Miners\, Musicians\, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon\, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted\, with a new introduction\, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big (2012). Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, Foreign Policy.com\, Miami Herald\, Los Angeles Times\, The Baffler\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email by March 5th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-launch-dana-frank-long-honduran-night/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Marlon James - Black Leopard\, Red Wolf
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to partner with Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome award-winning author Marlon James for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated novel\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf\, which is already being touted as a book that “will come to be seen as a classic of our times.” (NPR) \n“A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made.” —Neil Gaiman \nThe epic novel\, an African Game of Thrones\, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings. \nIn the stunning first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy\, myth\, fantasy\, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose\,” people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier\, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge\, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own\, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. \nAs Tracker follows the boy’s scent—from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers—he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive\, Tracker starts to wonder: Who\, really\, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth\, and who is lying? \nDrawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination\, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that’s come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that’s also an ambitious\, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth\, the limits of power\, and our need to understand them both. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have ADA accommodation requests for this event\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 16th. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nMarlon James is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Brief History of Seven Killings\, The Book of Night Women\, and John Crow’s Devil. A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize\, the American Book Award\, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction\, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.The Book of Night Women won the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as well as the NAACP Image Award. A professor at Macalester College in St. Paul\, James divides his time between Minnesota and New York. \n“Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous\, hallucinatory\, ancient Africa\, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made\, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as deep and crafty as Gene Wolfe\, bloodier than Robert E. Howard\, and all Marlon James. It’s something very new that feels old\, in the best way. I cannot wait for the next installment.” —Neil Gaiman \n“This book begins like a fever dream and merges into world upon world of deadly fairy tales rich with political magic. Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is a fabulous cascade of storytelling. Sink right in. I guarantee you will be swept downstream.” —Louise Erdrich \n“James’ sensual\, beautifully rendered prose and sweeping\, precisely detailed narrative cast their own transfixing spell upon the reader. He not only brings a fresh multicultural perspective to a grand fantasy subgenre\, but also broadens the genre’s psychological and metaphysical possibilities. If this first volume is any indication\, James’ trilogy could become one of the most talked-about and influential adventure epics since George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire was transformed into Game of Thrones.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“[A] tour de force.” —The Wall Street Journal \n“Sweeping\, mythic\, over-the-top\, colossal\, and dizzingly complex.” —The New York Times \n“Awe-inspiring.” —Entertainment Weekly \n“Thrilling\, ambitious…both intense and epic.” —Los Angeles Times”An astonishing portrait of the politics of everyday life…Just as he is sharply aware of the nuances of their voices\, James has the confidence not to deny his characters their humanity by turning them into moral exemplars\, nor paper over the infected wounds that score across the country by suggesting that the loveliness of some of its territory makes up for the savage effects of poverty.” —The Washington Post
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-marlon-james-black-leopard-red-wolf/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic–athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. A funny\, intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \nMicah Perks is the author of What Becomes Us\, a novel; We Are Gathered Here\, a novel; Pagan Time\, a memoir; and a long personal essay from Shebooks\, Alone In The Woods. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \nRead more about Perks and her teaching in a recent interview by UCSC Literature PhD Student\, Thais Miller. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nIf you have any ADA accomodation requests\, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 22nd.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/micah-perks-book-launch-true-love-dreams-miraculous-escape/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams: History vs. Women
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Bookshop Santa Cruz for discussion and signing with Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams\, moderated by UCSC Professor of Film and Digital Media Shelley Stamp\, about their new book\, History vs. Women.  \nRebels\, rulers\, scientists\, artists\, warriors and villains. \nWomen are\, and have always been\, all these things and more. \nLooking through the ages and across the globe\, Anita Sarkeesian\, founder of Feminist Frequency\, along with Ebony Adams PHD\, have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates\, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists\, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers\, History vs Women will reframe the history that you thought you knew. \nFeaturing beautiful full-color illustrations of each woman and a bold graphic design\, this standout nonfiction title is the perfect read for teens (or adults!) who want the true stories of phenomenal women from around the world and insight into how their lives and accomplishments impacted both their societies and our own. \nAnita Sarkeesian is an award-winning media critic and the creator and executive director of Feminist Frequency\, an educational nonprofit that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Best known as the creator and host of Feminist Frequency’s highly influential series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games\, Anita lectures at universities\, conferences and game development studios around the world. Anita dreams of owning a life-size replica of Buffy’s scythe. She is the coauthor of History vs Women. \nEbony Adams\, Ph.D. is an author\, activist\, and former college educator whose work foregrounds the lives and work of black women in the diaspora. She lives in Los Angeles with a steadily-increasing collection of Doctor Who memorabilia. She writes widely on film criticism\, social justice\, and pop culture\, and is the coauthor of History vs Women. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. While seating is open (chairs are usually set up an hour ahead of time)\, you can reserve you place in the signing line by preordering your copy of History vs. Women with a priority signing line voucher from Bookshop Santa Cruz below. \nIf you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 8th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anita-sarkeesian-ebony-adams-history-vs-women/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T190000
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SUMMARY:Robin Coste Lewis at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nFull event info: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/robin-coste-lewis-voyage-sable-venus \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required  \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robin-coste-lewis-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson\, New York 2140
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Institute for Humanities Research are pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as he returns for a book talk and signing of his bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century: New York 2140. \n“In the not-so-distant future\, a diverse cast of characters inherit a New York that has been flooded and overwhelmed as a result of the environmental\, economic\, and social disasters we are facing today. New York 2140 is timely and relevant and more realistic than the sci-fi I typically read. Significantly\, it purposes a future in which ethics and moral reasoning are still being undermined by the status quo. I’d recommend reading it with friends!” – Ashley\, Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff \nRegister for the event: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-new-york-2140 \nAs the sea levels rose\, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square\, however\, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader\, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective\, whose work will never disappear — along with the lawyers\, of course. There is the internet star\, beloved by millions for her airship adventures\, and the building’s manager\, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don’t live there\, but have no other home– and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. Lastly there are the coders\, temporary residents on the roof\, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all– and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests. New York 2140 is an extraordinary and unforgettable novel\, from a writer uniquely qualified to the story of its future. \nKim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus awards. He is the author of nineteen previous books\, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain\, Fifty Degrees Below\, Sixty Days and Counting\, The Years of Rice and Salt\, and Antarctica. In 2008\, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine\, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation’s Artists in the Back Country program. He lives in Davis\, California.\n“A thoroughly enjoyable exercise in worldbuilding\, written with a cleareyed love for the city’s past\, present\, and future.” ―Kirkus \n“The tale is one of adventure\, intrigue\, relationships\, and market forces…. The individual threads weave together into a complex story well worth the read.” ―Booklist\n“Science fiction is threaded everywhere through culture nowadays\, and it would take an act of critical myopia to miss the fact that Robinson is one of the world’s finest working novelists\, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation.” ―Guardian
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kim-stanley-robinson-new-york-2140-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Geraldine Brooks: "The Secret Chord"
DESCRIPTION:Now out in paperback from Pulitzer Prize winning\, bestselling author Geraldine Brooks\, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David’s journey from obscurity to fame\, from shepherd to soldier\, from hero to traitor\, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. The Secret Chord has received critical acclaim; The Chicago Tribune wrote\, “Deeply sympathetic. Brooks offers new perspectives on a character whose story has captured the Western imagination for millennial… she breaks from the biblical version by giving voice to the voiceless women in David’s life: wives and lovers\, a daughter\, a mother—the beloved and the scorned.” The Guardian called it “A compelling read\, contemporary in its relevance… powerful storytelling\, its landscape and time evoked in lyrical prose.” And NPR raves: “The best historical fiction… Brooks gives the whole king his due… It’s a tall order to breathe life into such a human being\, and she manages it admirably.” \nGeraldine Brooks is the author of four novels\, the Pulitzer Prize winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing\, People of the Book\, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia\, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband\, the author Tony Horwitz. \nSponsored by BookShop Santa Cruz\, Institute of Humanities Research\, and Co-sponsored by Temple Bethe El.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geraldine-brooks-the-secret-chord-3/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Micah Perks: "What Becomes Us"
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author\, professor\, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident\, Evie\, a mild-mannered\, pregnant school teacher\, abandons her controlling husband and flees California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house on a dead end road in a close-knit community that is divided by local colonial history\, a story that goes deep to the roots of the American conscience—and when she begins teaching at the local high school\, Evie herself becomes obsessed with The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson\, the first book written by a woman in the Americas that details Rowlandson’s captivity during King Philip’s War in the seventeenth century. As Mary Rowlandson’s insatiable hunger begins to fill Evie’s dreams\, Evie wonders if she may actually be haunted. At the same time\, Evie’s connections to her new community begin to simmer\, and as she grows more pregnant\, her desires and hunger grow out of control\, threatening to destroy her new world. Ten years in the making\, What Becomes Us will hold you to the last page with its unforgettable cast and story. \n“Micah Perks’ book has everything a reader could hope for — her language is lively\, her characters appealing. Set in a storied landscape\, with themes of independence and community. Romance! History! Food! Plus a tale to tell and some surprising people to tell it. There is real magic here. Micah magic! Completely original\, completely delightful.”  –Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \n“I’ve been obsessed with Mary Rowlandson for 20 years\, and was delighted to find that Micah Perks writes about her with fireworks. This is a warm\, wild\, hilarious\, eccentric and moving book.”  –Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies and Arcadia \nMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here\, a memoir\, Pagan Time\, and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \nSponsored by BookShop Santa Cruz and Institute of Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/micah-perks-what-becomes-us-3/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz presents Michael Hannon and Gary Young
DESCRIPTION:Michael Hannon was born in California in 1939. He has been writing and publishing poetry for 53 years. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies both here and abroad. Much of his work has been published by California’s leading book artists in limited editions. His thirty-year collaboration with the artist William T. Wiley has produced books\, sculptures and numerous gallery and museum shows. Kenneth Rexroth said of Hannon’s work: “A very good poet indeed and certainly one of the few Tantric writers in any language who is both profound and witty.” Hannon is the author of thirty-five poetry titles\, including four full-length poetry collections: A Door in the Water(1975)\, Poems & Days (1985)\, Ordinary Messengers (1991)\, Trusting Oblivion (2002)\,Imaginary Burden: Selected Poems (2013). Michael is married to Nancy Dahl and lives in Los Osos\, California. He has 3 grown sons\, Dylan\, Jason\, and Colin and 3 grandsons\, Jadrien\, Oliver and Kai.Download a PDF of two poems by Michael Hannon from the Imaginary Burden:Selected Poems. \nRead praise for Imaginary Burden from Gary Young and Joseph Stroud.\n \nGary Young is a poet\, artist\, printer\, and educator. His numerous awards include recognition from the Poetry Society of America—the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2013)\, the Shelley Memorial Award (2009)\, the William Carlos Williams Award (2003)\, and the Lyric Poem Award (2001). Gary has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities\, and his print work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, the Getty Center for the Arts\, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He teaches Creative Writing\, and is the Director of the Cowell Press at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His books include Hands\, The Dream of a Moral Life\, Days\, Braver Deeds\, No Other Life\, and Pleasure. His latest book\, Even So: New and Selected Poems\, was released in 2012. His most recent poems were written while studying in Japan in 2011. In 2014 White Pine Press will release Precious Mirror\, his translations of and the calligraphy of Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi and Ninja Press will publish a limited edition of new poems\, In Japan. \nSee Gary Young’s website.\n \n\n  \nPoetry Santa Cruz is funded\, in part\, by a grant from Arts Council Santa Cruz County.  Some events are supported by Poets & Writers\, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.  Poetry Santa Cruz is also grateful for the support of its members and donors\, In Celebration of the Muse\, and those who donated in memory of Maude Meehan and Kathleen Flowers.  The William James Association acted as our fiscal sponsor for our first four years.  Our readings are supported by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, Capitola Book Café\, Cabrillo College\, Darling House\, and KUSP.  Membership premiums have been donated by Graywolf Press\, the University of Pittsburgh Press\, Robert Sward\, Coffee House Press\, Copper Canyon Press\, and Farrar\, Straus and Giroux.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-santa-cruz-presents-michael-hannon-and-gary-young-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T120000
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SUMMARY:John Jordan\, Supposing Bleak House
DESCRIPTION:John O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens’s bicentenary (born Feb 7\, 1812). John will read from his book\, Supposing Bleak House\, and discuss Dickens\, Bleak House\, the Dickens Project\, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer). \nThere’s a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/johnojordan-3/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110125T190000
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SUMMARY:Community Book Group with Karen Tei Yamashita
DESCRIPTION:Dazzling and ambitious\, this hip\, multi-voiced fusion of prose\, playwriting\, graphic art\, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas\, one for each year\, I Hotel begins in 1968\, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated\, students took to the streets\, the Vietnam War raged\, and cities burned. \nAs Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students\, laborers\, artists\, revolutionaries\, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day\, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion\, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience. \nWe invite you to read  I Hotel\, then come to Bookshop Santa Cruz on January 25th for a community discussion of the book facilitated by Julie Minnis. It will be followed by a dialogue with Karen Yamashita. \nFor more information:\nhttp://news.ucsc.edu/2011/01/yamashita-bookshop-appearance.html \nhttp://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/community-book-group-karen-tei-yamashita \nhttp://www.santacruzsentinel.com/education/ci_17008747
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/community-book-group-with-karen-tei-yamashita-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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