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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks features one of its most high-powered line-ups ever, 
 with mystery, literature, science fiction and poetry!\n\nWhen: Saturday, 
 October 16, 2010, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM\nWho: Marcia 
 Clark, Ken Scholes, Jamie Freveletti, Stephen O'Connor, Kirya Traber and 
 Daniel Allen Cox\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission 
 and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds 
 benefit the CSC.\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nMarcia Clark is a 
 renowned former L.A. prosecutor. Her first legal thriller, Guilt By 
 Association, comes out in April 2011 from Mulholland Books. Los Angeles 
 D.A. Rachel Knight is a wise-cracking and fiercely intelligent prosecutor 
 in the city's most elite and tightly knit division, who must solve the 
 murder of her colleague Jake. Clark wrote a bestselling book about the O.J. 
 Simpson murder trial, Without a Doubt, and is a frequent commentator and 
 columnist on legal issues.\n\nStephen O'Connor's new book is Here Comes 
 Another Lesson: Stories. His previous books are Rescue, Will My Name Be 
 Shouted Out? and Orphan Trains. His writing has appeared in The New England 
 Review, Poetry Magazine, The New York Times, The Nation, and elsewhere. 
 He's received the Cornell Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing from 
 Columbia University, the Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research by 
 Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society, and the DeWitt 
 Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony.\n\nJamie 
 Freveletti's new novel is Running Dark. Her debut thriller, Running from 
 the Devil (HarperCollins/ Morrow 2009), was chosen as a “Notable Book” 
 by the Independent Booksellers of America, awarded "Best First Novel" by 
 the International Thriller Writers, and has been nominated for a Barry 
 Award for "Best First Novel" by Deadly Pleasures Magazine, a Macavity Award 
 for" Best First Mystery" by the Mystery Readers International, and 
 "Favorite First Novel of 2009" by Crimespree Magazine.\n\nDaniel Allen 
 Cox's new novel Krakow Melt is about pyromaniacs fighting homophobia in a 
 Polish city where nothing is fireproof. He also wrote the novel Shuck, 
 which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Canada's ReLit 
 Award, and the novella Tattoo This Madness In, which was shortlisted for a 
 2007 Expozine Alternative Press Award. He's a columnist for Capital Xtra, 
 and a former pornstar and Jehovah's Witness.\n\nKen Scholes is the author 
 of the Psalms of Isaak series, including Lamentation, Canticle, Antiphon, 
 Requiem and Hymn. His other books are Last Flight Of The Goddess, Long 
 Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys, and Diving Mimes, Weeping 
 Czars and Other Unusual Suspects. His stories have appeared in Clarkesworld 
 Magazine, Realms Of Fantasy and Eclipse 2.\n\nKirya Traber is the author of 
 the chapbook black chick. She was a 2004 National Teen Poetry Slam 
 Champion, and has since featured at Robert Redford's Sundance Summit, the 
 Bay Hip Hop Theatre Festival, the Living Word Festival, Michelle Tea's 
 RADAR Reading series, Peace Out: The International Homo Hop Festival, and 
 in Tiny Little Maps to Each Other, a collection of five young women poets 
 published by First Word Press, and on tour across the nation with Sister 
 Spit: The Next Generation.\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\n\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 won the Emperor Norton Award for "extraordinary invention and 
 creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason." 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/2010/10/11/18661047.php
SUMMARY:Kirya Traber and Daniel Allen Cox @ Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco
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