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DESCRIPTION:It's an all-star Writers With Drinks, with Dorothy Allison, Mythbusters' 
 Adam Savage, Steven Barnes, Mary Miller and Clint Catalyst. Plus guest host 
 Beth Lisick -- yes, we finally got rid of the crazy bag lady!\n\nWhen: 
 Saturday, August 8, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM\nWho: Dorothy Allison, Adam 
 Savage, Steven Barnes, Clint Catalyst, Mary Miller and guest host Beth 
 Lisick!\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\nDorothy Allison is the 
 author of the National Book Award finalist and Ferro Grumley prize-winning 
 Bastard Out Of Carolina, the Lilian Smith prize-winning Cavedweller, and 
 the short story collection Trash, plus the forthcoming She Who. She was an 
 award winning editor for Quest, Conditions, and Outlook, early feminist and 
 Lesbian & Gay journals. Her story "Compassion" was selected for both Best 
 American Short Stories 2003 and Best New Stories from the South 2003. She's 
 been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Emory University and a writer in 
 residence at Macondo in San Antonio, TX, and Columbia College in Chicago. 
 \n\nAdam Savage is a special effects expert who hosts the show Mythbusters 
 on the Discovery Channel. He's also worked on Star Wars Episodes I and II, 
 Space Cowboys, Galaxy Quest, Terminator 3, the Matrix sequels, and A.I. 
 among others. I've done R&D for toy companies, acted in commercials and 
 films, and done props and sets for Coca-Cola, Dow Corning, Hershey's, 
 Lexus, and  a host of New York and San Francisco theater 
 companies.\n\nSteven Barnes's novels include the Aubry Knight series, the 
 Insh'Allah series, plus Shadow Valley, Great Sky Woman, Charisma, Iron 
 Shadows, Blood Brothers and the Kundalini Equation. With Larry Niven, he's 
 written the Dream Park Series, The Descent of Anansi, Achilles' Choice and 
 Saturn's Choice. With Tananarive Due and Blair Underwood, he writes the 
 Tennyson Hardwick novels. He also wrote the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 
 novelization Far Beyond The Stars, and the Star Wars novel The Cestus 
 Deception, plus two Assassin's Creed novels. He's written for The Twilight 
 Zone, The Outer Limits, Stargate: SG-1 and Andromeda, and has been 
 nominated for the Hugo, Cable, Ace and Endeavor awards.\n\nClint Catalyst 
 is the author of Cottonmouth Kisses. He's served as contributing editor 
 with Swindle Quarterly and Surface, a managing editor of Permission 
 magazine, and editor-at-large of three literary journals: Praxis, 
 Psychodaisies, The Aeonian. With Michelle Tea, he co-edited the anthology 
 Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache. He's won the Isaac Andrew Campbell 
 Memorial Prize for Poetry and the Congress/Bundestag Scholarship, the 
 literary journal CFF deemed Catalyst both "Renaissance Man of the Year" and 
 "Author With Most Anticipated New Release."\n\nMary Miller is the author of 
 Big World and the chapbook Less Shiny. Her work's appeared in Storyglossia 
 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. The event has been going since April 
 2001.\n\nAbout Beth Lisick:\n\nBeth Lisick has published poems, essays, a 
 short fiction collection, and also wrote a weekly nightlife column for SF 
 Gate for eight years. Her stage and screen collaborations with 
 writer/performer Tara Jepsen have yielded some uncomfortable moments, the 
 most recent being a short film called Diving for Pearls which played the 
 international film festival circuit. She also co-organizes the Porchlight 
 Storytelling Series, a monthly show for amateur storytellers in San 
 Francisco. Her book Everybody Into the Pool, was a New York Times 
 bestseller and made Entertainment Weekly's list of Top 10 Nonfiction Books 
 of 2005. Her latest book about her adventures in the self-help biz is 
 called Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, 10 Self-Help Gurus, and a Year 
 on the Brink of the Comfort Zone\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/19/18609171.php
SUMMARY:Dorothy Allison & Clint Catalyst @ Writers with Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/19/18609171.php
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