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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest running spoken word variety show takes your brain 
 by storm! \n\nDate: Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 
 6:30 PM \nWhat: WRITERS WITH DRINKS \nFeaturing: Molly Gloss, Karen Tei 
 Yamashita, Nic Alea, Shazam and Loren Kraut \nLocation: The Make Out Room, 
 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco \nAdmission: $5 
 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC \n\nAbout the 
 readers/performers: \n\nMolly Gloss' novels include The Hearts Of Horses, 
 Wild Life, The Dazzle Of Day, The Jump-Off Creek and Outside The Gates. 
 She's twice been a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. And The Jump-Off 
 Creek was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won both 
 the 1990 Ken Kesey Award for the Novel and 1990 Pacific Northwest 
 Booksellers Association Award. \n\nKaren Tei Yamashita's latest book is I 
 Hotel. She's the author of the novels Circle K Cycles, Tropic of Orange, 
 Brazil-Maru, and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest. She's also written a 
 number of plays, including Hannah Kusoh, Noh Bozos and O-Men. \n\nNic 
 Alea's poems have appeared in Dope Magazine and the 16th. and Mission 
 Review. Alea's featured at Quiet Lightning and the New Sensationist Reading 
 Series. \n\nShazam blogs at Random Rim Jobs, and she's appeared at the 
 Bawdy storytelling series. She has a column as the SF Sex and Relationships 
 Examiner, and reviews sex toys for Carnal Nation. \n\nLoren Kraut recently 
 appeared at OCD and ADD Comedy: An Exotic/Neurotic Show. The SF Weekly 
 wrote, "Perhaps people who self-identify as "normal" don't get Kraut's 
 brand of humor, but we sure do." \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/2010/05/04/18646886.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Molly Gloss!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/04/18646886.php
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