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Events
02 / 18
Start: 7:30 pm
We are pleased to welcome fiction writer and passionate cook Erica Bauermeister, who explores the profound insights that food can offer in her mouth-watering and exquisitely written debut novel, The School of Essential Ingredients. Join us for a luscious evening.
At Lillian’s restaurant, a group of eight women and men from different stages in life gather for a cooking class taught by a woman with a magical gift for both food and friendship. It soon becomes clear, however, that each student comes seeking a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. The elements of love, sex, grief, joy, and self-discovery mingle into a complex and intriguing mélange. | ||
02 / 19
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02 / 20
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02 / 21
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02 / 22
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02 / 23
Start: 6:15 pm
Filled with science, natural remedies, and modern wisdom, An A-Z Guide to Healing Foods is a great reference for anyone confused by all the claims of superfoods or who wants to make informed decisions about what foods are best for them. An A-Z Guide to Healing Foods inspires the reader to explore, prepare, procure, grow, taste, savor, and enjoy healing foods. This guide will steer readers toward fabulous foods that foster an overall sense of well-being. Yoga instructor, nutrition expert, and mother Elise Collins has compiled a list of healing foods, their vitamin and mineral content, and what they do to promote health, prevent disease, and decrease symptoms of illness. | ||
02 / 24
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02 / 25
Start: 7:30 pm
Join us for an encore reading from Kim Stanley Robinson and Terry Bisson reading from their new novels Galileo’s Dream and Fire on the Mountain, respectively. PM Press has honored these two progressive science fiction authors as part of their Outspoken Authors series, and we are honored to welcome them back to Pegasus for a 2nd reading.
Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, Kim Stanley Robinson is known as not only the most literary but also the most progressive of today’s top rank SF authors. His bestselling Mars Trilogy tells the epic story of the future colonization of the red planet, and the revolution that inevitably follows. The Years of Rice and Salt is based on a devastatingly simple idea: If the medieval plague had wiped out all of Europe, what would our world look like today? His latest novel, Galileo’s Dream, is a stunning combination of historical drama and far-flung space opera, in which the ten dimensions of the universe itself are rewoven to ensnare history’s most notorious torturers.
Terry Bisson is a Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author. He has also written bios of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Nat Turner. He is the host of a popular San Francisco reading series (SFinSF) and the Editor of PM’s new Outspoken Authors pocketbook series. His latest novel, Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists. | ||
02 / 26
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02 / 27
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02 / 28
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03 / 1
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03 / 2
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03 / 3
Start: 7:30 pm
Join us in welcoming award-winning author Yiyun Li, who will read from her novel The Vagrants. Set in China in the late 1970s, The Vagrants is a powerful, beautifully written novel that tells the harrowing story of a small town during the dramatic era that was a forebear of the Tiananmen Square uprising. Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from Lannan Foundation and Whiting Foundation. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction; it was also shortlisted for Kiriyama Prize and Orange Prize for New Writers. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons, and teaches at University of California, Davis. | ||
03 / 4
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03 / 5
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03 / 6
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03 / 7
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03 / 8
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03 / 9
Start: 7:30 pm
Writer and radio essayist Jill Hunting reads from her latest book Finding Pete: Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam at Pegasus Downtown.
Finding Pete is a memoir chronicling the author’s brother, Pete Hunting, a noncombatant working with International Voluntary Services who was killed in an ambush in 1965—thus becoming one of the first American civilian casualties of the Vietnam War. Over the years, Jill’s quest to connect with her older brother led her to overcome her family’s silence, discover Pete’s lost letters, and visit the place where he died. On November 12, 1965, Walter Cronkite announced that civilian aid worker Peter Hunting had been killed by Vietcong agents in the Mekong Delta. For America it was a loss that reverberated with portents of coming catastrophe. For Hunting's fifteen-year-old sister, Jill, it was the beginning of a lifetime of questions: What had Pete's years in Vietnam been like? What had he seen and experienced? What had he come to believe about his role there in the midst of sharply rising tensions? Why had two men reportedly posing as Pete's friends lured him to his death? Finding Pete: Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam (Wesleyan University Press) is a personalized account of a critical moment in U.S. history, as well as the moving story of an altruistic youth who personifies what America lost in Vietnam. It is also a portrait of a family's struggle with loss, a mother's damaging grief, and, most of all, a sister's quest to recover the connection with her brother. Jill Hunting is a writer, editor, and radio essayist. She proposed the Book of Remembrance, a sculpture in memory of civilians killed in war. The Book, in which are symbolically inscribed the names of noncombatant victims of violent conflict, will be a permanent installation for the United States Institute of Peace, in Washington, D.C.
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03 / 10
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03 / 11
Start: 7:30 pm
Based on works from the national exhibit, Paper Politics features art by over 200 international printmakers, several of whom will join McPhee in discussion of this lively artform.
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today is a major collection of contemporary politically and socially engaged printmaking. This full color book showcases print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. Based on an art exhibition which has traveled to a dozen cities in North America, Paper Politics features artwork by over 200 international artists; an eclectic collection of work by both activist and non-activist printmakers who have felt the need to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.
Paper Politics presents a breathtaking tour of the many modalities of printing by hand: relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraph, collagraph, monotype, and photography. In addition to these techniques, included are more traditional media used to convey political thought, finely crafted stencils and silk-screens intended for wheat pasting in the street. Artists range from the well established (Sue Coe, Swoon, Carlos Cortez) to the up-and-coming (Favianna Rodriguez, Chris Stain, Nicole Schulman), from street artists (BORF, You Are Beautiful) to rock poster makers (EMEK, Bughouse). "Let's face it, most collections of activist art suck. Either esthetic concerns are front and center and the politics that motivate such creation are pushed to the margin, or politics prevail and artistic quality is an afterthought. With the heart of an activist and the eye of an artist, Josh MacPhee miraculously manages to do justice to both. Paper Politics is singularly impressive." --Stephen Duncombe, author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy | ||
03 / 12
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03 / 13
Start: 7:30 pm
Anthology contributors and editors read from My Baby Rides the Shortbus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities. Come hear stories from this groundbreaking anthology written by counter-cultural parents of kids with special needs. With readings from contributors Marcy Sheiner and Andrea Winninghoff and editors Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman and Sarah Talbot. All are welcome.
In lives where there is a new diagnosis or drama every day, the stories in My Baby Rides the Shortbus provide parents of “special needs” kids with a welcome chuckle, a rock to stand on, and a moment of reality held far enough from the heart to see clearly. Featuring works by “alternative” parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought--or remove its influence altogether--this anthology, taken as a whole, carefully considers the implications of parenting while raising children with disabilities. From professional writers to novice storytellers including Robert Rummel-Hudson, Ayun Halliday, and Kerry Cohen, this assortment of authentic, shared experiences from parents at the fringe of the fringes is a partial antidote to the stories that misrepresent, ridicule, and objectify disabled kids and their parents. Yantra Bertelli is the mother of four children and an unlikely pet owner. She lives and works in Seattle with her wife and family and thinks up different ways to manage transitions 250,000 times a day. "This is the most important book I've read in years. Whether you are subject or ally, My Baby Rides the Short Bus will open you--with its truth, humanity, and poetry.” --Ariel Gore | ||
03 / 14
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03 / 15
Start: 7:30 pm
Re:Imagining Change - How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World explores how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social change strategies, and offers practical methods to amplify progressive causes in the popular culture. Patrick Reinsborough, former organizing director of the Rainforest Action Network and co-founder of the smartMeme strategy and training project, will offer tools and strategies for building successful campaings and non-profit organizations.
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03 / 16
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03 / 17
Start: 7:30 pm
Peter O’Neill, editor of The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diaspora (along with guest readers to be announced, will perform stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. All are welcome. | ||
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