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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich Launch Party for “Hold Still”
DESCRIPTION:Litquake presents Ben Ehrenreich in conversation with Daniel 
 Gumbiner City Lights celebrates the publication of Hold Still By Ben Ehr
 enreich Published by City Lights Books One of Literary Hub’s Most Antici
 pated Books for 2026! A profound and deeply personal\, genre-bending boo
 k about finding one’s way back to life after the death of a parent. In t
 he months after his mother Barbara’s death\, Ben Ehrenreich set himself 
 the task of writing a story every day. Leaving open the question of what
  a “story” might be\, he wrote daily entries for three or four months as
  a way to grapple with his grief and to try to understand this new phase
  of life\, which meant continuing on after his mother’s death. Some of t
 hese daily entries ended up being short stories of a sort\, often fable-
 like tales involving animals doing surprising things. Others were closer
  to journal entries\, many of them about his daughter\, who was nearly t
 hree at the time\, and who was trying to understand death herself at the
  same time that she was voraciously exploring the living world. Other en
 tries raised the question: What is it that even makes a story a story? T
 his deeply moving collection of those daily journeys into storytelling–a
  finely crafted combination of fiction\, memoir\, and poetic prose–is bo
 th profound and satisfyingly whimsical. An innovative\, versatile writer
 \, Ben Ehrenreich takes his reader into the difficult emotional terrain 
 of grief\, and then safely escorts them to the other side\, leaving them
  inspired\, uplifted and hopeful. Ben Ehrenreich is the author of four p
 revious books\, most recently\, of the New York Times Notable Book\, Des
 ert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time. He has also published The
  Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine\, based on his years of 
 reporting from the West Bank\, as well as two novels\, The Suitors and E
 ther\, which was also published by City Lights. Daniel Gumbiner’s first 
 book\, The Boatbuilder\, was nominated for the National Book Award and a
  finalist for the California Book Awards. His latest novel\, Fire in the
  Canyon\, was a finalist for the California Book Awards and was also nam
 ed a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. He is the Editor of The Believer\
 , which won the 2026 National Magazine Award for Essays. Litquake is a p
 roject of the Litquake Foundation\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit registered in th
 e state of California. Litquake’s diverse live programs aim to inspire c
 ritical engagement with the key issues of the day\, bring people togethe
 r around the common humanity encapsulated in literature\, and perpetuate
  a sense of literary community by providing a vibrant forum for Bay Area
  writing. Because they believe in literature as a public good\, they wor
 k to produce events that are accessible to all. Visit them at https://ww
 w.litquake.org This event is made possible by support from the City Ligh
 ts Foundation.\n\nTickets: https://citylights.com/events/ben-ehrenreich-
 launch-party-for-hold-still/\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/4435cc
 c3-3d03-436c-a4ac-5634c0e50e56
LOCATION:CCSF North Beach / Chinatown Bookstore\, CA
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/4435ccc3-3d03-436c-a4ac-5634c0e50e5
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