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DESCRIPTION:Spoken word variety show Writers With Drinks has finally gone too far! Show 
 up and protest against literary mash-ups and heterogeneity! Demand literary 
 sameness!\n\nWhen: Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, 7:30 to 9:30 PM\nWho: Vikram 
 Chandra, Cherie Priest, James Rollins, Andrew Porter & Derek 
 Powazek\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., SF\nHow much: $5 to $10 
 sliding scale, proceeds benefit Haiti relief\n\nAbout the 
 readers/performers:\n\nVikram Chandra is the author of Sacred Games, Love 
 And Longing In Bombay and Red Earth And Pouring Rain. He co-wrote the 
 Bollywood movie Mission Kashmir.\n\nCherie Priest is the author of 
 Boneshaker, Dreadnought and Clementine, set in the Clockwork Century world. 
 She's also the author of the Eden Moore trilogy, including Four And Twenty 
 Blackbirds and Wings To The Kingdom. Her other books include Dreadful Skin, 
 Those Who Went Remain There Still, Fathom and the forthcoming 
 Bloodshot.\n\nJames Rollins is the author of the SIGMA Force series, 
 including The Doomsday Key and The Last Oracle, plus the standalone novels 
 Subterranean, Excavation, Deep Fathom, Amazonia and Altar of Eden. As James 
 Clemens, he wrote the Banned and the Banished series and the Godslayer 
 series.\n\nAndrew Porter's debut short story collection, The Theory of 
 Light & Matter, won the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His 
 stories have appeared in One Story, Epoch (magazine), The Ontario Review, 
 Prairie Schooner, The Antioch Review, StoryQuarterly, The Threepenny 
 Review, Others Voices, Story (magazine) and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. 
 He appeared on NPR's Selected Shorts.\n\nDerek Powazek is the founder of 
 Fray, the quarterly book of true stories and art, and author of Design for 
 Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places.\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, which is on hiatus. Follow her on Twitter as charliejane.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/07/18637238.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks w/ Cherie Priest & Vikram Chandra
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St. btw. Mission and Valencia
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/07/18637238.php
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