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8th July 2009
2:06am: This Saturday: Derek McCormack at Writers With Drinks!
San Francisco's most eclectic reading series is back, with Canadian literary star Derek McCormack and science fiction legend Rudy Rucker! Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS Featuring: Derek McCormack, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Rudy Rucker and Chelsea Martin Location: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco Admission: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC. About the readers/performers: Derek McCormack's books include The Show That Smells, The Haunted Hillbilly, Christmas Days, Grab Bag and Western Suit. His book Wild Mouse was nominated for a 1999 City Of Toronto Book Award. The Haunted Hillbilly appeared on the Village Voice's 2004 list of the best books of the year. Rudy Rucker is the author of Postsingular, and its new sequel, Hylozoic. His past books include the "Ware" series, Mathematicians In Love, The Hacker And The Ants, White Light and Mathematicians In Love. His non-fiction includes The Lifebox, The Seashell and the Soul. Hugh Behm-Steinberg's books of poetry include Shy Green Fields and Sorcery. He teaches at California College of the Arts, where he's the faculty editor of Eleven Eleven. He's the co-publisher of MaCaHu Press. Shilpa Agarwal is the author of Haunting Bombay, which won a First Worlds prize for South Asian writers. Chelsea Martin is the author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever. The Rumpus called her "a happening waiting to accident." About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll five years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format. Hostess Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism at io9.com. She's the author of the Lambda Award-winning Choir Boy (2005 Soft Skull Press) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of She's Such A Geek (Seal Press 2007). She also publishes other magazine.
11th June 2009
4:50pm: This Saturday: Luis Alberto Urrea at Writers With Drinks!
San Francisco's longest running monthly reading series is back, with Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea and more. When: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30ish Who: Luis Alberto Urrea, David J. Williams, Ron MacLean, Rachel McDowell and Vanessa Norton! Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit Modern Times Bookstore and the CSC. About the readers/performers: Luis Alberto Urrea is the recipient of the Lannon Literary Award, an American Book Award, and a Colorado Book Award, and has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. His book, The Devil's Highway, was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Urrea's most recent book is the novel The Hummingbird's Daughter. David J. Williams is the author of The Mirrored Heavens and The Burning Skies. He's a former programmer for the Homeworld videogame series and a graduate of the Clarion workshop. Ron MacLean is the author of Why The Long Face? and Blue Winetka Skies. His fiction has appeared in GQ, Greensboro Review, Prism International, Night Train and other quarterlies. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction. Rachel McDowell has performed at the Romane Event and several other local comedy shows. Vanessa Norton's writing has appeared in Sex For America: Politically Inspired Erotica and elsewhere. About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll five years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format. Hostess Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism at io9.com. She's the author of the Lambda Award-winning Choir Boy (2005 Soft Skull Press) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of She's Such A Geek (Seal Press 2007). She also publishes other magazine. You can follow her on Twitter as charliejane.
10th June 2009
2:36am: This Saturday: Luis Alberto Urrea at Writers With Drinks!
San Francisco's longest running monthly reading series is back, with Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea and more. When: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30ish Who: Luis Alberto Urrea, David J. Williams, Ron MacLean, Rachel McDowell and Vanessa Norton! Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit Modern Times Bookstore and the CSC. About the readers/performers: Luis Alberto Urrea is the recipient of the Lannon Literary Award, an American Book Award, and a Colorado Book Award, and has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. His book, The Devil's Highway, was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Urrea's most recent book is the novel The Hummingbird's Daughter. David J. Williams is the author of The Mirrored Heavens and The Burning Skies. He's a former programmer for the Homeworld videogame series and a graduate of the Clarion workshop. Ron MacLean is the author of Why The Long Face? and Blue Winetka Skies. His fiction has appeared in GQ, Greensboro Review, Prism International, Night Train and other quarterlies. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction. Rachel McDowell has performed at the Romane Event and several other local comedy shows. Vanessa Norton's writing has appeared in Sex For America: Politically Inspired Erotica and elsewhere. About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll five years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format. Hostess Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism at io9.com. She's the author of the Lambda Award-winning Choir Boy (2005 Soft Skull Press) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of She's Such A Geek (Seal Press 2007). She also publishes other magazine. You can follow her on Twitter as charliejane.
31st May 2009
1:25pm: My Elizabeth Wurtzel story
Now that Elizabeth Wurtzel is making her inevitable comeback, I figured I should post my story that I wrote a few years ago. Which, I believe, appeared in Clamor Magazine. Hope you enjoy! Two Women Discuss an Author Whom Neither Has Read. By Charlie Anders Company memo, Heartful Research Group From: Sally G—, Director of Knowledge Abbreviation To: Larry M—, CEO Dear Larry: First of all, let me say you are a humanist, and I applaud your encouragement for us to become Well-Rounded Individuals. To me, however, it was a shock. After years of your predecessor's Live For Work policy, which held that anyone with hobbies must be a slacker who left the office insufficiently drained, it could be nothing but startling to hear the opposite message. I was like one of those sea anemones that live inside discarded Coke bottles and collapse into dead sludge when freed from their crystalline straitjackets. As you know, mine is an endless mission. For every piece of knowledge I abbreviate, millions remain lengthy. The realm of the knowable stretches paradoxically beyond our ken. So absorbed am I in rendering the whole of our corporate Neumena into shorthand, I have scant time for other passions. So, yes, I lied to Marjorie, because she is my best friend at work and I thought she might be impressed to learn that I was the secret author of all of Elizabeth Wurtzel's books. ( More... )
Current Music: Wendy And Lisa - Girl Bros. Live At The Roxy
6th May 2009
3:00am: This Saturday: Erika Lopez at Writers With Drinks!!
San Francisco's most eclectic and demented reading series is back, with literary legends Achy Obejas, Brian Castro, Erika Lopez and more! When: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open around 6:30 PM Who: Achy Obejas, Erika Lopez, Brian Castro, Daniel Marcus, Sean Keane and Richard Loranger Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC. About the readers/performers: Erika Lopez is the author of Flaming Iguanas: An All-Girl Road Novel Thing, Lap Dancing for Mommy: Tender Stories of Disgust, Blame, and Inspiration, They Call Me Mad Dog and Hoochie Mamma: The Other White Meat. She was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her cartoons appeared regularly in the San Francisco Bay Times. Achy Obejas is the author of Ruins, Days Of Awe, Memory Mambo and We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?. Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals, including Conditions, Revista Chicano-Rique, and The Beloit Poetry Journal. In 1986, she received an NEA fellowship in poetry. She's written for the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Reader, The Windy City Times, The Advocate, High Performance, The Village Voice and the Chicago Tribune. She won the 1998 Peter Lisagor Award for political reporting. Brian Castro was born in Hong Kong in 1950 of Portuguese, Chinese and English parents, and arrived in Australia in 1961. His novels include Birds of Passage (1983), which shared the Australian/Vogel Literary Award; Double-Wolf (1991), winner of the Age Fiction Prize and the Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction; After China (1992), which also won the Victorian Premier's Award; and Stepper (1997), for which he received the National Book Council Banjo Award. His books have been translated into German and French. He currently resides in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne. Richard Loranger is the author of Poems For Teeth, a book of poetry about his much-abused teeth, and Hello. Poems. He also wrote the essay "I Want A Poetry," in Correspondence #1. Sean Keane has performed his stand-up comedy at the Dark Room, Rooster T. Feathers, the Habitat For Humanity fundraiser and many other venues. As far as we know, he's not the same person as Sean Keane, the Irish singer described as "the greatest musical find of the 1990s." Daniel Marcus is the author of Binding Energy, a short story collection. He's published around twenty short stories in literary and genre venues, including Witness, Asimov's Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, ZYZZYVA, and Fantasy and Science Fiction. His non-fiction has appeared in Wired, Boing-Boing, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has taught in the creative writing programs at the U.C. Berkeley Extension and San Francisco's Writing Parlor. About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll five years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format. Hostess Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism at io9.com. She's the author of the Lambda Award-winning Choir Boy (2005 Soft Skull Press) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of She's Such A Geek (Seal Press 2007). She also published other magazine.
8th April 2009
1:30pm: This Saturday: Pam Houston and Sean Stewart at Writers With Drinks!
San Francisco's most notorious spoken word show celebrates its eighth anniversary with literature, mystery, science fiction and more. When: Saturday, April 11, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM Who: Pam Houston, Stacie Boschma, Laurie R. King, Sean Stewart, Regina Lynn and Minal Hajratwala Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How Much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC. About the readers/performers: Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness, which won the 1993 Western States Book Award, and Waltzing the Cat, which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction. Her stories have been selected for Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. She also published a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, and wrote a play, Tracking The Pleiades. Decatur, GA poet Stacie Boschma has competed at various regional and national events, including the 2006 National Poetry Slam and the 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam. Her poetry has appeared in Labrys, Limp Wrist Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, and the anthology, Look, Up In The Sky! Laurie R. King is the author of the Mary Russell mystery novels, which include The Language of Bees and Locked Rooms, plus the Kate Martinelli mysteries, which include The Art Of Detection. Her stand-alone novels include Touchstone and Keeping Watch. She's had stories in the anthology Unusual Suspects and elsewhere. Sean Stewart's books include Cathy's Book, Cathy's Key, Perfect Circle, Galveston, and the New York Times notable book Mockingbird. He also wrote the Star Wars novel Yoda: Dark Rendezvous. He also has worked as a consultant on several computer games, and currently works with Fourth Wall Studios. Regina Lynn wrote a "Sex Drive" column at Wired.com, and now maintains her own personal blog, SexRev2.0. She also reports on sex and technology for Playboy Radio. Her first book was 2005's The Sexual Revolution 2.0. Minal Hajratwala is the author of Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents. Her creative work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and theater spaces, and has received support from the Sundance Institute, the Hedgebrook writing retreat for women, the Jon Sims Center for the Arts, and the SerpentSource Foundation. Her one-woman show, "Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium," was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in 1999. She was an editor and reporter for eight years at the San Jose Mercury News.
11th March 2009
2:35am: This Saturday: Sara Houghteling at Writers With Drinks
The monthly reading series that pours creme de menthe on your denoument is back, with an awesome lineup of literary superstars and thought-provoking storytelling. When: Saturday, March 14, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30-ish What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS Who: Sara Houghteling, M.K. Chavez, Aaron Raz Link and S.G. Browne Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC. About the readers/performers: Sara Houghteling is the author of Pictures At An Exhibition. She's the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to Paris, first prize in the Avery and Jule Hopwood Award for novels, and a John Steinbeck Fellowship. MK Chavez's poetry chapbooks include Virgin Eyes and Visitation, plus she co-authored Next Exit #9 with John Sweet. She cohosts the reading series Acker’s Dangerous Daughters. She's had poems in 580 Split, The Rusty Truck, Zygote in My Coffee: Print Edition #6, and the Lummox Anthology. Aaron Raz Link is the co-author of What Becomes You, a transgender memoir. He's been a clown and a science educator, and his writing has appeared in Brevity and other magazine. S.G. Browne is the author of Breathers: A Zombie's Lament. He's posted a hilarious zombie self-help site called Undead Anonymous, and a series of zombie haikus on his homepage. About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll five years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format. Hostess Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism at io9. She's the author of the Lambda Award-winning Choir Boy (2005 Soft Skull Press) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of She's Such A Geek (Seal Press 2007). She also publishes other magazine. She twitters as charliejane, and she's starting a podcast soon.
11th February 2009
1:03am: This Saturday: Josh Kornbluth MCs and Ann Cummins reads at WWD
San Francisco's longest running literary salon is back for Valentine's Day, and this time Josh Kornbluth (Haiku Tunnel) is guest hosting! When: Saturday, February 14, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM Who: Ann Cummins, Lorelei Lee, Laurie Glover, Anna Furtado and Shanthi Sekaran. Special guest MC: Josh Kornbluth! Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale. About the readers/performers: Ann Cummins has been published in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Best American Short Stories 2002. She's the author of a novel, Yellowcake, and a short story collection, Red Ant House. Laurie Glover's poems have appeared in Women's Studies, Terrain, and Nimrod International Journal. She is working on a work of creative non-fiction called Conversion, a collection of linked essays about recreational spaces. Lorelei Lee is a writer, grad student and porn performer. Her writing has appeared in Transfer Magazine and Graphite. She's self-published two chapbooks, Double-Fisted and Shades Of Sky. She toured with the Sex Workers' Art Show in 2008. Anna Furtado is the author of the Briarcrest Chronicles, a lesbian romance series the first book of which was a finalist in the Golden Crown Literary Society's romance awards. She's also the co-author of The Butch Cookbook. Shanthi Sekaran is the author of The Prayer Room, a new novel from McAdam/Cage. Guest MC Josh Kornbluth had an interview show, The Josh Kornbluth Show, on KQED for two years, and it's still on in reruns. His one-man shows include Red Diaper Baby and Citizen Josh (which he'll be performing in Washington DC in the run-up to the election.) He co-directed the movie Haiku Tunnel, based on his monologue. He's appeared in the movies Teknolust, The Darwin Awards and Strange Culture. About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll five years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
7th January 2009
11:43am: This Saturday: Ann Packer at Writers With Drinks!
Alliterate your eardrums with another installment of the award-winning Writers With Drinks reading series. When: Saturday, January 10, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM. Who: Ann Packer, Lan Tran, Yosefa Raz, Scott Sigler and Steven Schwartz! Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC. About the readers/performers: Ann Packer is the author of Songs Without Words, The Dive From Clausen's Pier, and Mendocino and Other Stories. She's had a story in the O. Henry Awards prize stories collection and the New Yorker, and won an NEA grant. Lan Tran's solo show, How To Unravel Your Family, played before a sold-out audience at Lincoln Center, and her latest show "Elevator/Sex" played at the West End Theater. Her work has frequently appeared on NPR and in anthologies such as Waking Up American. Yosefa Raz's poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Gumball Poetry, Tikkun and Glimmer Train. Her first poetry collection, In Exchange For A Homeland, was published by Swan Scythe Press. Scott Sigler's novels include Infected, Contagious, EarthCore and Ancestor. His short story "Sacred Cow" was made into an online mini-movie by StrangerThings.TV. Steven Schwartz is the author of a chapbook of 69 stories, called 69. His stories have appeared in Tough Girls, 5 Minute Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica 2 and Wired Hard, among other places.
10th December 2008
11:41am: This Saturday: Jay Lake and Camille Dungy at Writers With Drinks!
Award-winning reading series Writers With Drinks returns, with an extra nerd-tastic lineup of science fiction, fantasy and video games. Plus amazing poetry and deadpan comedy. When: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM Who: Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, Damon Brown, Steve Ferris and Camille T. Dungy Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC. About the readers/performers: Jay Lake won the John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction writer. He's published three novels: Mainspring, Escapement and Madness Of Flowers, with five more on the way. He's also published over 200 short stories. Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison. She was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. She's also received fellowships from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Dana Award, and Bread Loaf. Damon Brown is the author of Porn And Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider And Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. He's written about video games and sex for Playboy, Alternet, the New York Post and Planet Out. Cat Rambo is the co-author, with Jeff VanderMeer, of The Surgeon's Tale And Other Stories. Her stories have appeared in Asimov's, Weird Tales, Clarkesworld and Strange Horizons. She's the co-editor of Fantasy Magazine. Steve Ferris has performed at the Punchline, the Comedy Store, Scott's Comedy Club, Winners Casino and the High Desert Inn. He was suspended from high school for three days for a comedy performance at a talent show.
6th November 2008
1:35am: This Saturday: Michelle Tea, Nalo Hopkinson and more at Writers In Drag!
Writers With Drinks hosts another special evening of authors reading works they've written outside their usual genres, "Writers In Drag." Says Spin Magazine, "Cross-drafting is the new cross-dressing." When: Saturday, Nov. 8, from 7:30 to 9:30 PM Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture Who: Austin Grossman, Michelle Tea, Stephen Elliott, Nalo Hopkinson, Annalee Newitz and Jaime Cortez More details: Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invicible) reads post-apocalyptic lit. Stephen Elliott (Happy Baby, My Girlfriend Comes Into The City And Beats Me Up) reads poetry. Annalee Newitz (io9.com, Techsploitation) reads science fiction Michelle Tea (Rose Of No Man's Land, Valencia) reads cyberpunk Jaime Cortez (Sexile) reads fairy tales. Nalo Hopkinson (Skin Folk, New Moon's Arms) reads something TBA
Current Music: Johnny Adams - Body And Fender Man
10th October 2008
11:44pm: okay I've been threatening to do this for a while....
I finally created a yahoo group for the social outings thing I want to do: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/guerillakaraokebarI so don't have time to organize this! But it could really be fun. Maybe once a month, a big group of us could dress up in over the top costumes and go take over a karaoke bar in the Marina, or Nob Hill, or Fisherman's Wharf, or wherever? I'm thinking Wednesday evenings? Anyway, if you want to get involved, just join the group and if you seem like not a dingleberry, I'll make you a moderator. I just want this to happen!
10th September 2008
1:44pm: This Saturday: Josh Kornbluth and Peter Orner at WWD!
San Francisco's most drastic reading series is back after a month off. We just won our fifth Best Of The Bay in a row, and we're celebrating with one of our greatest lineups EVER! When: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM Who: Peter Orner, Josh Kornbluth, Farhad Manjoo, Zuleikha Mahmoud, and Jeff Carlson Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the No On 8 campaign. About the readers/performers: Peter Orner is the author of The Second Coming Of Mavala Shikongo. He's the co-author of Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, and the author of the short story collection Esther Stories. His work has appeared in Best American Stories 2001, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and the Future Dictionary Of America. Josh Kornbluth had an interview show, The Josh Kornbluth Show, on KQED for two years, and it's still on in reruns. His one-man shows include Red Diaper Baby and Citizen Josh (which he'll be performing in Washington DC in the run-up to the election.) He co-directed the movie Haiku Tunnel, based on his monologue. He's appeared in the movies Teknolust, The Darwin Awards and Strange Culture. Farhad Manjoo is the author of True Enough: Learning To Live In A Post-Fact Society. He writes for Slate.com and previously wrote for Salon.com and Wired News. Jeff Carlson is the author of the science fiction thrillers Plague War and Plague Year. He's working on a standalone novel, as well as a third novel in the nanotech Plague series. He's also collaborating with David Brin on an adventure novel called Colony High. Zuleikha Mahmoud's zines include the wombs and the browns, and parking lot.
30th July 2008
6:12pm: Writers With Drinks going bimonthly for a little while
Just wanted to mention that Writers With Drinks is taking August off. I had been working on a line-up for August, but preparing for Comic-Con ended up kicking my ass. And Comic-Con itself was exhausting and amazing. (I got to hang out with Joss Whedon a tiny bit, and he said he liked my dress! Squee!) And I'm off to WorldCon this coming week, including the Saturday that Writers With Drinks was supposed to happen. So — no WWD in August, sorry. Also, we decided a couple of months ago to skip the October WWD as well, because Litquake is happening at the same time. So to sum up, Writers With Drinks — which just won its fifth Best Of The Bay in a row, btw! Yay!!! — will be happening in September and November, but not August and October. And it'll be monthly again, starting with November. I'll try and get something up about this on the actual WWD site soon as well.
9th July 2008
12:58am: This Saturday: Ishmael Reed and Mistress Morgana at Writers With Drinks
Writers With Drinks is the slow-motion bouquet explosion of spoken word. This time, we feature: - Ishmael Reed, author of the Free-Lance Pallbearers and Japanese by Spring - Mistress Morgana, contributor to Sex For America - Marie Browne, poet and author of Buddha's Dogs. - Ray Molina, comedian and performer in Oddly Americana - Marta Randall, author of The Sword Of Winter - Frances Lefkowitz, author of How To Have Not When: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit local nonprofits.
4th July 2008
7:24pm: Sudden fiction: "Detective"
I got sick of knowing I'd done something terrible, maybe unforgivable, but not knowing what. Guilt with broken roots is the hardest kind. So I decided to hire a detective. I handed my next five weekends of going-out money as a retainer across his scarred desk. He looked like a weatherman, not a cop, and his office smelled like Febreze. "Find out what I did wrong," I said. "Okay," he said. "But you may not like it." The next week or so I thought I glimpsed him following me a few times, his spray-fixed hair and bland good will appearing for a second behind a greeting card rack. I started hearing from friends I hadn't seen in forever, cousins, my sister, old coworkers, people I'd lost touch with, all of them saying this man had been asking questions about me. It scared me, this stranger knowing stuff about me that I didn't know about myself. Even though that's what I'd wanted. "Someone is trying to destroy you," my sister said on the phone. "You should watch out. They know about what you did." "What? What did I do?" But she wouldn't tell me. It upset her too much to talk about it. "Don't play games with me," she said. "You know what you did." The detective called me a day later. He threw my money back at me. "I can't take your money. Even I have to have some standards." He told me to get out of his office before he had to push me out the window. But he wouldn't tell me what he found out. "Winston Drake is not your patsy," he said. "But I'll tell you one thing: I made sure everybody in your world knows all about you." Ever since then, people look at me weirder than ever, but if I ask the question, they throw a fit. "Don't play innocent," they say.
Current Music: Honest Bob & The Factory-To-Dealer Incentives: "Wake Up!"
11th June 2008
11:50am: This Saturday: Writers With Drinks with Armistead Maupin, Sheerly Avni and Gina de Vries!
Writers With Drinks has been mixing up literary genres at the cocktail hour for over seven years, and has won the SF Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay award four years in a row. This time around, Writers With Drinks features Armistead Maupin, author of the Tales Of The City novels and the Night Listener. He'll be reading from his latest novel, Michael Tolliver Lives. Also reading is Cinema By The Bay author and Huffington Post contributor Sheerly Avni, and Gina de Vries, whose writing appears in Baby Remember My Name and Tough Girls 2: Down And Dirty Dyke Erotica. Snakeskin Shamisen author Naomi Hirahara reads from the book Los Angeles Noir. Also performing are poet Ruben Alexander Barron and comedian Lisa Myers. It's still just $3 to $5 sliding scale, and it's a fundraiser for local nonprofits. It's this Saturday at the Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St. btw. Mission & Valencia, SF, from 7:30 to 9:30 PM.
7th May 2008
11:26am: This Saturday: April Sinclair, Adam Mansbach and Heathen Machinery!
Writers With Drinks celebrates seven years of spoken-word mash-ups. This time, we feature: - April Sinclair, author of Coffee Will Make You Black - Adam Mansbach, author of Angry Black White Boy - Alejandro Murguia, author of This War Called Love - Marc Acito, author of Attack Of The Theater People - Heathen Machinery, whose work has appeared in Lodestar Quarterly and other - Mark J. Ferrari, author of The Book Of Joby Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM Location: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco Admission: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit CSC and the effort to save rent control.
17th April 2008
4:14pm: I'm reading this Saturday with Jane Smiley, Laura Fraser and Yiyun Li!
I just noticed that McSweeney's has put out an anthology called the McSweeney's Joke Book Of Joke Books, and it includes my piece, "A Serial Killer Explains The Distinctions Between Literary Terms." And it has an intro by John Hodgman, so the cool kids may actually buy it. Yay! Meanwhile, I'm taking part in Stephen Elliott's Progressive Reading Series on Saturday. Maybe I'll read the McSweeney's thing, or maybe I'll just foam at the mouth and try to swallow my own tongue. Here are the details: The April 19 Progressive Reading Saturday, April 19, 7pm at The Makeout Room- 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, (415) 647 2888 Price: $10 - $20, sliding scale at the door All Funds Go To Saving Rent Control! Readers: Jane Smiley Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres Yiyun Li author of A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers Charlie Anders author of Choir Boy Michelle Richmond author of The Year Of Fog Laura Fraser author of An Italian Affair And Jeff O'Keefe With special guests- The Progressive Reading Series All Star Minstrels! And Extra Extra special Guest- Board Of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin!! Hosted by Stephen Elliott author of Happy Baby And as always, I promise to have sex with anyone who comes to this reading and hands me a swizzle stick.
9th April 2008
2:23pm: This Saturday: Karen Joy Fowler, Peter Hamilton and more!
Acclaimed reading series Writers With Drinks celebrates its seventh anniversary in style. This time around, we feature: - Karen Joy Fowler (Wit's End) - Peter F. Hamilton (The Dreaming Void) - Elliot Fintushel (Breakfast With The Ones You Love) - Juvenal Acosta (The Tattoo Hunter) - Fran Varian (Lodestar Quarterly) - Dayvid Figler (Grope, NPR's All Things Considered) Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., SF When: Saturday, April 12, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, come early for seating! How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds go to saving rent control and the CSC.
4th March 2008
10:53pm: This Saturday: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Fan Wu and Justin Courter!
The acclaimed reading series Writers With Drinks is back, with bigger sparkly zooms than ever. This time we feature: * Fan Wu (February Flowers) * Justin Courter (Skunk: A Love Story) * Declan McCullagh (News.com, Politech) * Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (Words In Your Face, Dear Future Boyfriend) * Blake C. Aarens (Herotica 5) * Ryan McKee (New Orleans Comedy Festival) When: Saturday, March 8, 2008, from 7:30 to 9:30 PM Where: The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA How much: $3 to $5. All proceeds benefit the fight to save rent control and the CSC.
6th February 2008
12:36am: Reminder: Jennifer Finney Boylan and Lolly Winston at Writers With Drinks
San Francisco's longest running monthly reading series jumbles genres again, featuring: - Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of I'm Looking Through You and She's Not There - Lolly Winston, author of Happiness Sold Separately and Good Grief - Jim Shepard, National Book Award finalist for Like You'd Understand, Anyway - Jaime Cortez, writer/artist of Sexile - Tung-Hui Hu, poet and author of Mine and The Book Of Motion - Jaimais Cascio, who blogs at OpenTheFuture.com Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. btw. Mission & Valencia When: Saturday, Feb. 9, from 7:30 to 9:30, get there early if you want a seat! How much: $3 to $5, all proceeds benefit CSC and the campaign to save rent control
Current Music: Marvin Gaye - Is Anybody Thinking About Their Living
2nd February 2008
11:04pm: Next Saturday, Jennifer Finney Boylan is coming to Writers With Drinks!
I'm sitting at home on a Saturday night working on Writers With Drinks stuff... but I'm actually super stoked because this is going to be a really fun one. I'll probably post about this again on Tuesday or Wednesday as usual, but I felt like posting it early as well... Hope to see you there! San Francisco's longest running monthly reading series jumbles genres again, featuring: - Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of I'm Looking Through You and She's Not There - Lolly Winston, author of Happiness Sold Separately and Good Grief - Jim Shepard, National Book Award finalist for Like You'd Understand, Anyway - Jaime Cortez, writer/artist of Sexile - Tung-Hui Hu, poet and author of Mine and The Book Of Motion - Jaimais Cascio, who blogs at OpenTheFuture.com Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. btw. Mission & Valencia When: Saturday, Feb. 9, from 7:30 to 9:30, get there early if you want a seat! How much: $3 to $5, all proceeds benefit CSC and the campaign to save rent control
Current Music: Prince - Partyup
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