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DESCRIPTION:The long-running spoken word series Writers With Drinks has finally gone 
 too far -- in every possible direction!\n\nWhen: Saturday, October 10, 
 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM\nWho: Anthony Swofford, Roz 
 Savage, Doug Dorst, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joe Loya\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\nAnthony Swofford is the author of a novel, Exit A, 
 and a memoir, Jarhead. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, 
 Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, and other publications. He's a 
 Michiner-Copernicus Fellowship recipient. He co-produced and narrated the 
 2006 documentary Semper-Fi.\n\nRoz Savage has rowed solo across the 
 Atlantic Ocean, and she tells her story in the new book Rowing The 
 Atlantic. She's also taken part in an expedition in Peru to discover 
 ancient Incan ruins, and was the first woman to row solo from California to 
 Hawaii. \n\nDoug Dorst is the author of Alive In Necropolis, which the San 
 Francisco Public Library selected as its One City One Book selection for 
 October 2009. It was also an Amazon.com Best Book of July and a New York 
 Times selection. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's and other places. 
 \n\nLinda Watanabe McFerrin's books include The Hand Of Buddha, The 
 Impossibility Of Redemption Is Something We Hadn't Figured On and Namako 
 (Sea Cucumber). She's the recipient of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for 
 Fiction and her work has also appeared in Wild Places, American Fiction, 
 the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Modern Bride, 
 Travelers’ Tales, and Salon.com.\n\nJoe Loya is the author of The Man Who 
 Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions Of A Bank Robber. He's a contributing 
 editor at the Pacific News Service. His writing has also appeared in the 
 Los Angeles Times, Newsday and the Washington Post. He received a 2000 
 Sundance Fellowship and a Sun Valley Writers' Conference Fellowship, plus a 
 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship to write his second memoir, The Parole Of 
 Buddha Lobo.\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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/20/18622592.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks w/ Anthony Swofford and Roz Savage!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/20/18622592.php
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