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DESCRIPTION:The city's most eclectic reading series continues with Catherynne M. 
 Valente and Adam Haslett!\n\nWhen: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 
 PM\nWhat: WRITERS WITH DRINKS\nWho: Catherynne M. Valente, Adam Haslett, 
 Rick Barot, Janice Shapiro and Kimberly Chun\n...Where: The Make Out Room, 
 3225 22nd. St. , San Francisco\nHow much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all 
 proceeds benefit the CSC.\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nAdam Haslett 
 is the author of the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and 
 the novel Union Atlantic. His story collection was a finalist for a 
 Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and his books have been translated 
 into eighteen languages. His journalism and fiction have appeared in The 
 Financial Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Nation, 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope All-Story, Best American Short Stories, The 
 O'Henry Prize Stories, and National Public Radio's Selected Shorts. He has 
 received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller 
 Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center, and in 2006, he won the 
 PEN/Malamud Award for accomplishment in short fiction. He has also won the 
 PEN/Winship Award for the best book by a New England author. A graduate of 
 Swarthmore College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Yale Law School, he 
 has been a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Columbia 
 University.\n\nCatherynne M. Valente's latest book is Deathless, a 
 retelling of the legend of Koschei the Deathless. Her other books include 
 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, The 
 Habitation of the Blessed, Palimpsest, Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams, the 
 Orphan's Tales series, The Labyrinth and The Grass-Cutting Sword. Her 
 poetry and short fiction can be found online and in print in such journals 
 as The Pedestal Magazine, Fantastic Metropolis, The Journal of Mythic Arts, 
 Clarkesworld Magazine, Jabberwocky, Mythic Delirium, Lone Star Stories, 
 Fantasy Magazine, Electric Velocipede, Cabinet des Fees, and Star*Line, and 
 anthologies such as Interfictions, The Book of Voices, Salon Fantastique, 
 The Minotaur in Pamplona, Paper Cities, Clockwork Phoenix, and featured in 
 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #18 and #21.\n\nRick Barot was born in 
 the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first book, 
 The Darker Fall, was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry 
 and was published by Sarabande Books in 2002. Sarabande published his 
 second book, Want, in 2008. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous 
 publications, including New England Review, The New Republic, Poetry, and 
 Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has also appeared in many anthologies, 
 including The New Young American Poets, Asian American Poetry: The Next 
 Generation, and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He 
 has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and 
 Stanford University.\n\nKimberly Chun is a contributing editor and music 
 columnist with the SF Bay Guardian, and also writes for The Bold Italic. 
 She's also contributed to 7X7 Magazine and the San Francisco 
 Chronicle.\n\nJanice Shapiro is the author of Bummer and Other Stories. Her 
 short stories have been published in The North American Review, and The 
 Santa Monica Review. A graphic piece that she wrote was part of the 
 anthology, What Were We Thinking? published by St. Martin’s press. 
 Another graphic piece appeared in The Seattle Review.\n\nAbout Writers With 
 Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF 
 Bay Guardian readers' poll six 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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/05/18678972.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Catherynne M. Valente and Adam Haslett
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/05/18678972.php
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