Author of Real Happiness and columnist for the Peabody Award-winning On Being, Sharon Salzberg has built a devoted fanbase and major excitement for her latest book, Real Change. A renowned figure in the world of meditation, Salzberg offers us a guide for harnessing mindfulness in ways that benefit ourselves, our loved ones, and the world around us. She dispenses her invaluable wisdom, expertise, and counsel for vanquishing fear and anxiety at a time when awareness of mental health and emotional well-being is more important and necessary than ever.

Join Women Lit, Sharon Salzberg, and her fellow On Being columnist, Courtney E. Martin, for a dazzling night of transformation that is sure to deepen your understanding of your own inner power in the face of struggle.

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Sharon Salzberg, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
Courtney E. Martin, The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

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“Inspiring, loving, and empowering. The perfect medicine for these difficult times.”

– Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart

“No matter what troubles have befallen you or what difficulties you have caused yourself or others, with love for yourself you can change, grow, make amends, and learn. Real love is not about letting yourself off the hook. Real love does not encourage you to ignore your problems or deny your mistakes and imperfections. You see them clearly and still opt to love.”

– Sharon Salzberg from her monthly column titled “Self-Love is an Adventure, Not a Destination”

2020-10-21 19:00:00 2020-10-21 20:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Women Lit #UNBOUND: Experience Real Change with Mindfulness Teacher Sharon Salzberg Author of Real Happiness and columnist for the Peabody Award-winning On Being, Sharon Salzberg has built a devoted fanbase and major excitement for her latest book, Real Change. A renowned figure in the world of meditation, Salzberg offers us a guide for harnessing mindfulness in ways that benefit ourselves, our loved ones, and the world around us. She dispenses her invaluable wisdom, expertise, and counsel for vanquishing fear and anxiety at a time when awareness of mental health and emotional well-being is more important and necessary than ever. Join Women Lit, Sharon Salzberg, and her fellow On Being columnist, Courtney E. Martin, for a dazzling night of transformation that is sure to deepen your understanding of your own inner power in the face of struggle. [av_button label='Register for free to receive the premiere link' link='manually,https://forms.gle/bpYHfJxNikA4JfYWA' link_target='_blank' size='medium' position='left' label_display='' icon_select='no' font='entypo-fontello' color='theme-color' custom_bg='#444444' custom_font='#ffffff' av_uid='' custom_class='' admin_preview_bg='']   This is a re-broadcast of a Women Lit  member-only LIVE webinar. To be able to participate in upcoming LIVE webinars, join Women Lit!   Recommended Reading Sharon Salzberg, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World Courtney E. Martin, The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream Order your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners   “Inspiring, loving, and empowering. The perfect medicine for these difficult times.” - Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart “No matter what troubles have befallen you or what difficulties you have caused yourself or others, with love for yourself you can change, grow, make amends, and learn. Real love is not about letting yourself off the hook. Real love does not encourage you to ignore your problems or deny your mistakes and imperfections. You see them clearly and still opt to love.” - Sharon Salzberg from her monthly column titled “Self-Love is an Adventure, Not a Destination”

As a genre, memoir has never shied away from tough topics, but the subject of Jennifer Risher’s new book candidly grapples with what may be one of the last lingering taboos: money. Risher and her husband started working for Microsoft in the 90s, and found themselves unexpectedly millionaires in the thick of the dot-com boom. We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth sensitively and introspectively examines the impact of personal wealth on everything from relationships to self-image to a sense of place in the world, within a framework of acute awareness of the dramatic income inequality in today’s America. In a frank and fearless conversation with Robin Richards Donohoe, whose venture philanthropy firm, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, tackles innovative solutions to social problems, Risher will get refreshingly real about a subject as discomfiting as it is necessary.

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Jennifer Risher, A We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth

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2020-10-28 19:00:00 2020-10-28 20:00:00 America/Los_Angeles The Last Taboo: How Wealth Changes Everything As a genre, memoir has never shied away from tough topics, but the subject of Jennifer Risher's new book candidly grapples with what may be one of the last lingering taboos: money. Risher and her husband started working for Microsoft in the 90s, and found themselves unexpectedly millionaires in the thick of the dot-com boom. We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth sensitively and introspectively examines the impact of personal wealth on everything from relationships to self-image to a sense of place in the world, within a framework of acute awareness of the dramatic income inequality in today's America. In a frank and fearless conversation with Robin Richards Donohoe, whose venture philanthropy firm, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, tackles innovative solutions to social problems, Risher will get refreshingly real about a subject as discomfiting as it is necessary. [av_button label='Register for free to receive the premiere link' link='manually,https://forms.gle/bpYHfJxNikA4JfYWA' link_target='_blank' size='medium' position='left' label_display='' icon_select='no' font='entypo-fontello' color='theme-color' custom_bg='#444444' custom_font='#ffffff' av_uid='' custom_class='' admin_preview_bg='']   This is a re-broadcast of a Women Lit  member-only LIVE webinar. To be able to participate in upcoming LIVE webinars,  join Women Lit!    Recommended Reading Jennifer Risher, A We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth Order your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners

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Two extraordinary writers, separated by oceans but brought together in their brilliant excavation of emotional terrain, explore loss and grief in a cathartic conversation. MacArthur “genius” fellow Valeria Luiselli, with her novel The Lost Children Archive, innovatively blends fiction and archival materials in a profoundly personal exploration of the Central American migration crisis. Danish-language author Naja Marie Aidt’s memoir of grieving her son, When Death Takes Something From You Give it Back, praised by Kirkus as “a stirring, inventive masterpiece of heartbreak,” unforgettably gives shape to an almost indescribable absence. Moderated by board president and founder of the Center for the Art of Translation, Olivia Sears, these literary alchemists transcend boundaries of language, culture, and genre to help us understand one of the most difficult, complex, and universal of human experiences: that of loss.

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Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a Writer in Residence at Bard College and lives in New York City.

Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of several collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, including “Baboon,” which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize, Scandinavia’s highest literary honor. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.

Olivia E. Sears is founder of the Center for the Art of Translation and serves on the editorial board of Two Lines Press. As a translator from Italian, she recently appeared alongside poet Mariangela Gualtieri at PEN’s Women-in-Translation Month event, reading from work that has appeared or is forthcoming in The Arkansas International, Copper Nickel, and The Common. Her translations from Ardengo Soffici’s 1919 poetry volume BÏF§ZF+18: Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms appear in Hyperallergic, Kenyon Review, Jubilat, and Poetry International. Her complete translation of Soffici’s landmark book is forthcoming from World Poetry Books (May 2021).

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2020-11-17 12:00:00 2020-11-17 13:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Found in Translation: A Shared Language for Loss A LIVE Webinar opportunity for Women Lit Members. To join this event, please join Women Lit - memberships start at $35! Two extraordinary writers, separated by oceans but brought together in their brilliant excavation of emotional terrain, explore loss and grief in a cathartic conversation. MacArthur “genius” fellow Valeria Luiselli, with her novel The Lost Children Archive, innovatively blends fiction and archival materials in a profoundly personal exploration of the Central American migration crisis. Danish-language author Naja Marie Aidt’s memoir of grieving her son, When Death Takes Something From You Give it Back, praised by Kirkus as “a stirring, inventive masterpiece of heartbreak,” unforgettably gives shape to an almost indescribable absence. Moderated by board president and founder of the Center for the Art of Translation, Olivia Sears, these literary alchemists transcend boundaries of language, culture, and genre to help us understand one of the most difficult, complex, and universal of human experiences: that of loss. This is a LIVE Webinar opportunity for Women Lit members. To attend this event, please join Women Lit!   Already a Member? Your RSVP form will be emailed out shortly!   Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a Writer in Residence at Bard College and lives in New York City.   Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of several collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, including "Baboon," which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize, Scandinavia’s highest literary honor. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.   Olivia E. Sears is founder of the Center for the Art of Translation and serves on the editorial board of Two Lines Press. As a translator from Italian, she recently appeared alongside poet Mariangela Gualtieri at PEN’s Women-in-Translation Month event, reading from work that has appeared or is forthcoming in The Arkansas International, Copper Nickel, and The Common. Her translations from Ardengo Soffici’s 1919 poetry volume BÏF§ZF+18: Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms appear in Hyperallergic, Kenyon Review, Jubilat, and Poetry International. Her complete translation of Soffici’s landmark book is forthcoming from World Poetry Books (May 2021). The recording of this event will be released to the public at a future date.