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What is it about a 92-year-old Hakka woman that so compelled her son to write her life story? Hear from Chai Kee how the memoir of an uneducated matriarch’s roller-coaster life from pre-WWII into the new millennium evolves into a manual on how to face and fight adversity in his book “Even When S ...More

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What is it about a 92-year-old Hakka woman that so compelled her son to write her life story? Hear from Chai Kee how the memoir of an uneducated matriarch’s roller-coaster life from pre-WWII into the new millennium evolves into a manual on how to face and fight adversity in his book “Even When She Forgot My Name”. The Author A Melbourne University-trained psychologist, Wong Chai Kee has run his own management consultancy firm for 22 years. He loves writing, and has written numerous articles on psychology and on Christianity. A voracious reader, especially of memoirs and history, he has an insatiable urge to buy books. Due to limited places for each session, please register! Registration can be made via http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg at ‘Experience Singapore Literature’. Organised By: National Library Singapore Visit http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg for more programmes and exhibitions.

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Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City Thursday, December 3. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and ne’er do wells! 21 and up – FREE Sex Worker ...More

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Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City Thursday, December 3. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and ne’er do wells! 21 and up – FREE Sex Worker Literati is a free monthly performance series that features sex workers, former sex workers, and people with stories about the sex industry who will read, monologue, perform, and shimmy their ways into your hearts, minds, and naughty bits. To get a taste of what the Sex Worker Literati is like, check out: videos of past performances (and subscribe to the video podcast on iTunes or Miro), pictures taken at the event, and be our fan on Facebook. The December 3 : Boy’s Night performance stars Jeffrey Escoffier, Craig Seymour, Tré Xavier, Twisted Monk, Alex Kinney, and Matthew Lawrence. Jeffrey Escoffier writes on glbtz history, politics, culture, sexuality, music, and dance. One of the founders of OUT/LOOK: National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly, he has published widely. Among his books are American Homo: Community and Perversity and a biography of John Maynard Keynes in the Chelsea House series on the Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians. He co-edited (with Matthew Lore) Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration. His most recent book is Sexual Revolution, an anthology of writing on sex from the 1960s and 1970s. He is currently working on a book on sexual politics and writing about the production of pornography. Writer and photographer Craig Seymour is the author of the memoir, “All I Could Bare : My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.” and the photo book “American Boys : A Strip Club Diary“. He is a former stripper and has been chronicling gay strip clubs for more than a decade. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland in College Park, and is Associate Professor of Journalism at Northern Illinois University. Tré Xavier is an adult entertainment / blogger who in addition to writing about sex, life, and love for his own blog, Tré’s X-Ray Vision, has also written blog entries for Pitbull Production’s ThugPornBlog, and more recognizably, MOC Blog, which he still maintains being a contributing writer for. His writing skills at expressing vivid pictures and valid points has also gotten his opinions published in a book review for FlavaMen Magazine, and in the feedback section of The Advocate. Twisted Monk is changing the world, one bedroom at a time, through his hemp bondage rope company. A former missionary and one time yuppie turned bondage rope maker and sex worker, he writes about his adventures in the world on his blog. Alex Kinney is an old whore who has prostituted himself in the Ivy League, America’s regional theaters, in the Golden Hills of Hollywood, one cold Christmas in Dublin, and more lengthily, the South of the Slot in San Francisco. Yes, Virginia, there really was a Golden Age of sexuality in San Francisco, and some of us were even getting paid for it. Actually, a LOT of us were getting paid for it, right, David?? The stuff you get me into, jeez…. Alex’s most recent play, Holy Hell, was developed at The Actors Studio. Tonight he’s doing a story from a collection in Manhattan’s Midtown West, “Helmut the Maid”. Matthew Lawrence is a blogger, curator, and pop music enthusiast who lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where indoor prostitution was totally legal until last month. He’s a news writer for Carnal Nation and blogs about sex and culture at his own site, Mixtapes for Hookers. Matthew also runs a literary events organization designed to remind people about the awesomeness of libraries, and every Sunday morning he hosts a Top 40 countdown on a community radio station. Most recently, he has curated an exhibit, “World of Queercraft”, and organized a read-a-thon to raise money for Books for Bars, a prison book program.

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Get great bargains on a wide variety of books, movies and music for children and adults. There will be many gift quality and brand new items. The sale will be held in the Library Program Room. Proceeds benefit the collections and services at the Sunnyvale Public Library. Cash and checks only – sor ...More

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Get great bargains on a wide variety of books, movies and music for children and adults. There will be many gift quality and brand new items. The sale will be held in the Library Program Room. Proceeds benefit the collections and services at the Sunnyvale Public Library. Cash and checks only – sorry, no credit cards. For more information about Library services and programs, please visit www.sunnyvalelibrary.org.

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Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding reconstruction, in words and images, of the wild island that millions of New Yorkers now call home. Meet author and landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson who will discuss this fascinating project. Filled with breathtaking illustrations th ...More

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Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding reconstruction, in words and images, of the wild island that millions of New Yorkers now call home. Meet author and landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson who will discuss this fascinating project. Filled with breathtaking illustrations that show what Manhattan looked like 400 years ago, Mannahatta is a groundbreaking work that gives readers not only a window into the past, but inspiration for green cities and wild places of the future. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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Get great bargains on a wide variety of books, movies and music for children and adults. There will be many gift quality and brand new items. The sale will be held in the Library Program Room. Proceeds benefit the collections and services at the Sunnyvale Public Library. Cash and checks only – sor ...More

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Get great bargains on a wide variety of books, movies and music for children and adults. There will be many gift quality and brand new items. The sale will be held in the Library Program Room. Proceeds benefit the collections and services at the Sunnyvale Public Library. Cash and checks only – sorry, no credit cards. For more information about Library services and programs, please visit www.sunnyvalelibrary.org.

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Gary Glynn, author and historian will be speaking about and signing copies of Historic Photos of Montana at Montana Book Company, located: 331 N Last Chance Gulch Helena, MT on December 5th from noon-2 p.m. This 10 x 10 luxurious coffee table book makes for a wonderful and unique Christmas gift, co ...More

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Gary Glynn, author and historian will be speaking about and signing copies of Historic Photos of Montana at Montana Book Company, located: 331 N Last Chance Gulch Helena, MT on December 5th from noon-2 p.m. This 10 x 10 luxurious coffee table book makes for a wonderful and unique Christmas gift, come on by and get your own copy!

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Level: Intermediate Instructor: Jacqueline Kolosov This two-day workshop will focus on art as subject and inspiration, discovering how the visual artist’s aesthetic can fuel the writer’s own way of seeing. During the first part of Day 1, we will explore examples of ekphrastic writing by Allison ...More

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Level: Intermediate Instructor: Jacqueline Kolosov This two-day workshop will focus on art as subject and inspiration, discovering how the visual artist’s aesthetic can fuel the writer’s own way of seeing. During the first part of Day 1, we will explore examples of ekphrastic writing by Allison Funk, Susan Vreeland, Brenda Miller, and the instructor in order to learn from their strategies. We will then turn to generative exercises. On Day 2, we will workshop each participant’s work-in-progress. Dates: Saturday, Dec. 5, 11am – 4pm (break included); Sunday, Dec. 6, 11am – 2pm (break included) Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Dec. 2 Required Materials: Please bring a fine art photograph on Saturday and a reproduction of another work of art that inspires, perplexes, or intrigues you enough to want to write about it on Sunday. Also, please perform a little preliminary research on the artist / photographer as this information may play a role in your writing. CPE Credits: 7 Language Arts

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Level: Intermediate Instructor: Jacqueline Kolosov This two-day workshop will focus on art as subject and inspiration, discovering how the visual artist’s aesthetic can fuel the writer’s own way of seeing. During the first part of Day 1, we will explore examples of ekphrastic writing by Allison ...More

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Level: Intermediate Instructor: Jacqueline Kolosov This two-day workshop will focus on art as subject and inspiration, discovering how the visual artist’s aesthetic can fuel the writer’s own way of seeing. During the first part of Day 1, we will explore examples of ekphrastic writing by Allison Funk, Susan Vreeland, Brenda Miller, and the instructor in order to learn from their strategies. We will then turn to generative exercises. On Day 2, we will workshop each participant’s work-in-progress. Dates: Saturday, Dec. 5, 11am – 4pm (break included); Sunday, Dec. 6, 11am – 2pm (break included) Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Dec. 2 Required Materials: Please bring a fine art photograph on Saturday and a reproduction of another work of art that inspires, perplexes, or intrigues you enough to want to write about it on Sunday. Also, please perform a little preliminary research on the artist / photographer as this information may play a role in your writing. CPE Credits: 7 Language Arts

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Connecticut College Philosophy Professor, Andrew Pessin (who was dubbed "The Genius" by David Letterman), will be at the Library on Tuesday, December 1 at 3:30 pm to talk about his new book, The God Question: What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins Have Said About the Divine? There will be copie ...More

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Connecticut College Philosophy Professor, Andrew Pessin (who was dubbed "The Genius" by David Letterman), will be at the Library on Tuesday, December 1 at 3:30 pm to talk about his new book, The God Question: What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins Have Said About the Divine? There will be copies of the book for sale and signings. This program is free and open to the public. For further information, contact Tara Samul at 447-1411, ext. 3.