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DESCRIPTION:\nSan Francisco's longest running monthly reading series is back, with 
 Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea and more.\n\nWhen: Saturday, 
 June 13, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30ish\nWho: Luis Alberto 
 Urrea, David J. Williams, Ron MacLean, Rachel McDowell and Vanessa 
 Norton!\nWhere: 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.\n\nAbout the 
 readers/performers:\n\nLuis 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.\n\nDavid 
 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.\n\nRon 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.\n\nRachel McDowell has 
 performed at the Romane Event and several other local comedy 
 shows.\n\nVanessa Norton's writing has appeared in Sex For America: 
 Politically Inspired Erotica and elsewhere.\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 publishes other magazine. You can 
 follow her on Twitter as charliejane. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/10/18601201.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks w/ Luis Alberto Urrea
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/10/18601201.php
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