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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks, the city's most alternative reading series according 
 to American Airlines' inflight magazine, is back!\n\nWhen: Saturday, 
 September 12, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM\nWho: John Shirley, Jeremy Adam Smith, 
 Lorna Dee Cervantes and Christy Chan \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\nJohn Shirley's most recent books include Bleak 
 History, the lost cyberpunk classic Black Glass, and the story collection 
 Living Shadows. He's also the author of Demons, Crawlers, Spider Moon, 
 Transmaniacon, City Come-Walkin', Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse 
 Corona, The Brigade, A Splendid Chaos, Three-Ring Psychus, Dracula in Love, 
 Cellars, In Darkness Waiting, Wetbones and Silicon Embrace. He's written 
 lyrics for the Blue Öyster Cult and episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space 
 Nine, VR5 and Poltergeist. \n\nJeremy Adam Smith is the author of The Daddy 
 Shift, and co-editor of the forthcoming books The Compassionate Instinct 
 and Are We Born Racist?. He's senior editor of Greater Good magazine, 
 published by the U.C. Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, and founder of 
 Daddy Dialectic, a group blog that explores the experiences of 
 twenty-first-century dads. His essays, short stories, and articles on 
 parenting, popular culture, urban life, and politics have appeared in The 
 Nation, BusinessWeek.com, Mothering, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San 
 Francisco Chronicle, Utne Reader, Wired, and numerous other periodicals and 
 books.\n\nLorna Dee Cervantes' poetry collection From the Cables of 
 Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger  was awarded the Patterson Poetry Prize, 
 the poetry prize of the Institute of Latin American Writers, and the Latino 
 Literature Award. She founded a literary journal and a small press, both 
 called Mango. Her poetry has appeared in hundreds of literary journals, 
 plus the anthologies Daughters of the Fifth Sun, ¡Floricanto Sí! A 
 Collection of Latina Poetry, Unsettling America: An Anthology of 
 Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, and No More Masks!\n\nChristy Chan is a 
 Virginia-born filmmaker and writer whose film Wash 'n' Fold has appeared in 
 many film festivals. She's also done storytelling at the Porchlight Reading 
 Series and elsewhere. She's an affiliate artist at Sausalito's Headland 
 Center For The Arts.\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.\n 
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SUMMARY:John Shirley and Lorna Dee Cervantes at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/09/18621379.php
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