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Children’s Storytime with OBA Finalists
Zoom CA, United StatesJoin us for storytime with the 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists for the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature. This is a virtual event.
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Caring for Your Personal Collections: A Conservator’s View
Zoom CA, United StatesJoin us for a virtual lecture! Whether you have a priceless first edition or your high school scrapbook, books have intrinsic value beyond the words on the page. Get tips, tricks, and advice from professional book conservators. Emilie van der Hoorn and Michelle C. Smith of the San Francisco Public Library will share their expertise […]
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OBA Finalists Reading Young Adult Literature
Zoom CA, United StatesJoin us for a reading featuring the 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists for the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature. This is a virtual event.
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The U.S. Constitution and the Mystery Novel, by Micheal O’Connor
Zoom CA, United StatesThough not everyone realizes it, the U.S. Constitution can have serious repercussions on a mystery novel. Search warrant requirements, Miranda warnings, and prohibitions against rubber hoses are just a few of the many constraints placed on police detectives. While private detectives are not directly affected by the Constitution, disregarding the rules can have negative consequences […]
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The Break with Kaveh Akbar
Zoom CA, United StatesIn partnership with Alano Club of Portland, “The Break is a monthly virtual gathering of writers and artists lead by Kaveh Akbar, celebrating amongness, collaboration, and interdisciplinary creative experimentation. Though many of the activities and discussions orbit or are inflected by recovery themes (Akbar has been in active recovery for eight years), participants are not required […]
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Contempo Jo Mora
Zoom CA, United StatesThe creative career of Joseph Jacinto “Jo” Mora (1876-1947) was both compelling and diverse. A painter, muralist, sculptor, building designer, cartographer, actor, set designer, cowboy, and husband and father, Mora’s art work sprang from his interests in numerous subjects including Native Americans and cowboys, the American landscape, California history and its missions, the classics of […]
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Letters from Buenos Aires with Muk Monsalve
Zoom CA, United StatesTake a journey through the locations and architectural details in Buenos Aires that inspired a typographic textile. Since 2018, Muk Monsalve has been hosting and curating type walks around Buenos Aires with her art and business partner, Lucía Soto. This project, called Letra Capital, allows them to highlight and share the love they feel while […]
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March Member Meeting: Quantifying Your Editing Impact
Zoom CA, United StatesHave you bought a piece of clothing from a store, and, when you took it to the cashier, had the person checking you out say, "this color will look great on you!" This is a sales strategy, a subtle but still manipulative attempt to build brand loyalty—it's a way for the retailer to assure you […]
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The Epicenter: Taleen Voskuni with Jen Siraganian
Hotel Emblem 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesLitquake's Epicenter is excited to launch our Spring 2023 season, with Sorry, Bro, the debut novel by Bay Area author Taleen Voskuni. This vibrant and heartfelt queer rom-com, set amidst the current San Francisco tech community, follows a young Armenian-American woman as she rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is. When Nareh Bedrossian’s non-Armenian boyfriend […]
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Salon Series 37: Recovering the Forgotten Women of Metal Type Design with Bethany Qualls
Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA, United StatesDig into overlooked design history and get a sneak peek at Letterform Archive’s forthcoming research hub on women in metal type. Ever wonder who originally designed your favorite typefaces? Many of the fonts we use today (such as Futura, Helvetica, Baskerville) originated in the metal type era (late 1800s to 1950s) when hot metal typesetting […]
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Dancing in Their Light: A Daughter’s Unfinished Memoir
Mechanics' InstituteA colorful compilation of inspiring and unfathomable stories woven together by humor, pathos, confluences of fate, and the eternal guiding hands of the author's ancestors. Debbie Chinn begins this colorful memoir by tracing her roots back to China. Horrors of war, the Japanese occupation of China, the brutalities of starvation and poverty, and the Communist […]
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Crying in H Mart: An Evening with Michelle Zauner and Soleil Ho
The California Ballroom 1736 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA, United StatesFew writers have traced the sensuous connection between food and memory as powerfully as Michelle Zauner has done in her runaway hit memoir, Crying in H Mart. Legions of readers have kept the book on the bestseller list for more than 60 weeks, and for good reason. With breathtaking prose, Zauner delves into the experience of food—our […]
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