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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's most notorious spoken word show celebrates its eighth 
 anniversary with literature, mystery, science fiction and more.\n\nWhen: 
 Saturday, April 11, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM\nWho: Pam 
 Houston, Stacie Boschma, Laurie R. King, Sean Stewart, Regina Lynn and 
 Minal Hajratwala\nWhere: 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.\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nPam 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.\n\nDecatur, 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!\n\nLaurie 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.\n\nSean 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.\n\nRegina 
 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.\n\nMinal 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. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/06/18586454.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks w/ Pam Houston and Laurie R. King
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/06/18586454.php
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