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DESCRIPTION:The city's longest running spoken word variety show is back! With Charles 
 Yu (How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe), Jesse Ball (The 
 Way Through Doors), and Anna North (America Pacifica)!\n\nWhen: Saturday, 
 July 9, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30\nWho: Charles Yu, Jesse 
 Ball, Anna North, Lynn Peril & Bill Brent!\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 
 22nd. St., San Francisco \nAdmission: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds 
 benefit the CSC.\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nCharles Yu is the 
 author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. He received 
 the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection 
 Third Class Superhero, and he has also received the Sherwood Anderson 
 Fiction Award. His work has been published in the Harvard Review, The 
 Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and 
 Mid-American Review, among\nother journals.\n\nJesse Ball is a poet and 
 novelist. His novels include The Way Through Doors (2009) and Samedi the 
 Deafness (2007), which was a finalist for the Believer Book Award. He has 
 published books of poetry and prose, The Village on Horseback (2010), Vera 
 & Linus (2006), March Book (2004). A book of his drawings, Og svo kom 
 nottin, appeared in Iceland in 2006. He won the Paris Review’s Plimpton 
 Prize in 2008 for The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp & Carr. His 
 poetry has appeared in the Best American Poetry series.\n\nAnna North's 
 first novel is America Pacifica. She's a staff writer at Jezebel.com. Her 
 story "A Record Book for Small Farmers" appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, 
 where it was nominated for a National Magazine Award. She graduated from 
 the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2009, having received a Teaching-Writing 
 Fellowship and a Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship.\n\nLynn Peril is 
 the author of Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making it in the 
 Office. Her Op-Ed "Do Secretaries Have a Future?" appeared in the New York 
 Times. Her other books include Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy 
 Lessons and College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and 
 Now. She was the editor of Mystery Date, a long-running zine.\n\nBill Brent 
 is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men (Cleis Press, 2002; 
 published in French as Le Plaisir Anal [pour lui], Editions Tabou, 2006). 
 His fiction and essays appear in over 30 anthologies, including Everything 
 You Know About Sex Is Wrong, The Best American Erotica 1997, Best Gay 
 Erotica 2002 and 2004, Best S/M Erotica, Tough Guys, Bi Guys, Rough Stuff, 
 plus its sequel, Rouged Up. His essay "Martin Luther Goes Bowling" appeared 
 in Everything You Know About God Is Wrong, and a 12,000 word sex-and-drugs 
 memoir in Entangled Lives: Memoirs of 7 Top Erotica Writers. He co-edited 
 the Best Bisexual Erotica series. He also published the long-running sex 
 magazine Black Sheets and ran the independent publishing company 
 Black\nBooks, which published an annual guide to the sexual underground 
 called the Black Book.\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/2011/07/04/18683725.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Anna North and Lynn Peril
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/07/04/18683725.php
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