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DESCRIPTION:January's Writers With Drinks includes cutting-edge science fiction, 
 comedy, and extreme literature!\n\nWhen: Saturday, January 12, 2013, 7:30 
 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30\nWho: Jan Richman, Ramez Naam, Kirk Hamilton 
 and Deb Campo!\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San 
 Francisco\nHow much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the 
 CSC\n\nAbout the writers/readers:\n\n\nJan Richman's new novel is 
 Thrill-Bent, coming in January 2013. She's also the author of Because the 
 Brain Can Be Talked Into Anything, which was chosen by Robert Pinsky for 
 the 1994 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has 
 received an NEA grant in Literature, a Nation/Discovery Award, the Celia B. 
 Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Felix Pollack Poetry 
 Prize from the University of Wisconsin, and a San Francisco Bay Guardian 
 Poetry Prize. She has a B.A. in English from San Francisco State University 
 and an M.A. in Creative Writing from New York University, and has taught 
 writing at Brooklyn College, the Academy of Art University, and San 
 Francisco City College.\n\nDeb Campo made it to the finals of Nick at 
 Nite's Funniest Mom in\nAmerica 3 with Roseanne Barr, and she was also a 
 finalist in 2006\nRooster T. Feathers and 50 Mason Comedy Club comedy 
 competitions. Debbie Campo is a regular at the Punchline and The Clubhouse 
 in San Francisco and Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale and regularly tours 
 with the comedy troupe "Three Blonde Moms".\n\nRamez Naam is the author of 
 Nexus and Crux, two science fiction\nthrillers, the first of which came out 
 in December 2012. He's also the\nauthor of the forthcoming The Infinite 
 Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet. His 2005 book More Than 
 Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement won the 2005 HG 
 Wells Award for Contributions to Transhumanism. He's a computer scientist 
 in Seattle.\n\nKirk Hamilton is a writer and musician in San Francisco. He 
 is a features editor for Gawker Media’s gaming site Kotaku and has 
 written about music, games and culture for a variety of publications 
 including The New York Times, Edge, Joystiq, Kill Screen, Acoustic Guitar 
 and Paste, where he served as Games Editor. He has spoken at music and 
 video game industry conferences, educators’ panels, and on national 
 public radio.\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks won 
 "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll six years in a 
 row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. And it was 
 namechecked in Armistead Maupin's latest Tales of the City novel. 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. \n 
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/08/18729676.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Jan Richman and Ramez Naam
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/08/18729676.php
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