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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's most eclectic and demented reading series is back, with 
 literary legends Achy Obejas, Brian Castro, Erika Lopez and more!\n\nWhen: 
 Saturday, May 9, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open around 6:30 PM\nWho: 
 Achy Obejas, Erika Lopez, Brian Castro, Daniel Marcus, Sean Keane and 
 Richard Loranger\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission 
 and Valencia, San Francisco\nHow much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds 
 benefit the CSC.\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nErika 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.\n\nAchy 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.\n\nBrian 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.\n\nRichard 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.\n\nSean 
 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."\n\nDaniel 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.\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\nWriters 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.\n\nHostess 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.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/06/18593016.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Erika Lopez, Achy Obejas and Brian Castro!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. Street, San Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/06/18593016.php
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