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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest running spoken word variety show is back, with Lev 
 Grossman, Tobias Wolff and Taylor Mali! Excitement!\n\nWhen: Saturday, June 
 12, 2010, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM\nWhat: WRITERS WITH 
 DRINKS\nWho: Tobias Wolff, Lev Grossman, Taylor Mali, Andrew Lam, Corrina 
 Bain and Bill Carter!\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between 
 Mission and Valencia, San Francisco\nHow much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all 
 proceeds benefit the CSC\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nTobias Wolff's 
 books include Our Story Begins: New And Selected Stories, Old School, The 
 Night In Question, In Pharoah's Army, In The Garden Of The North American 
 Martyrs, This Boy's Life and Ugly Rumors. This Boy's Life was made into a 
 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. He's the Ward W. and 
 Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at 
 Stanford University.\n\nLev Grossman is the author of the novels Warp, 
 Codex and The Magicians. He's a senior book critic and writer for Time, and 
 co-author of the Time blog TechLand. He's written for The New York Times, 
 Salon.com, Lingua Franca, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, The Wall 
 Street Journal, and The Village Voice.\n\nTaylor Mali is a slam poet, 
 teacher and voiceover artist. He's best known for the poem "What Teachers 
 Make." He's published a book, What Learning Leaves, and put out four CDs 
 including The Difference Between Left and Wrong, and Icarus Airlines. 
 \n\nAndrew Lam is the author of a new book, East Eats West: Writing In Two 
 Hemispheres. He's also the co-founder of New America Media, an editor with 
 the Pacific News Service and a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. 
 \n\nCorrina Bain is the author of Ugly Poems For Ugly People. She's 
 appeared on national slam poetry teams in 2002, 2004 and 2005. \n\nBill 
 Carter is the author of Fools Rush In and Red Summer, and the director of a 
 documentary film, Miss Sarajevo. He worked with an aid agency during the 
 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and helped to connect the band U2 to the 
 Sarajevan relief effort.  \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/2010/06/02/18649554.php
SUMMARY:Tobias Wolff and Lev Grossman at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/02/18649554.php
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