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DESCRIPTION:	\nWhen: Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 
 PM\nWho: Rebecca Solnit, Jillian Lauren, Diana Turken, Geek Porn Girl and 
 Tomas Moniz!\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and 
 Valencia, San Francisco\nHow much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds 
 benefit Seven Teepees.\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nRebecca Solnit's 
 books include Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, A California Bestiary, 
 A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in 
 Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost and Wanderlust: A History of 
 Walking. She's received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan literary 
 fellowship, two NEA Fellowships for Literature, and a 2004 Wired Rave 
 Award.\n\nTomas Moniz is the co-editor of Rad Dad, a zine about parenting, 
 and a new anthology, Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Front Lines of 
 Fatherhood.\n\nJillian Lauren is the author of the novel Pretty, as well as 
 the memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. Her writing has appeared in The 
 Paris Review, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Flaunt Magazine, Opium 
 Magazine, Society, Pale House: A Collective and in the anthologies My First 
 Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories and Tarnished: True Tales of 
 Innocence Lost.\n\nSuzi, aka Geek Porn Girl, runs the Geek Porn Girl blog, 
 "a blog for gay girls in glasses." While the blog is sex positive, the 
 "porn" in the title refers to "an obsession with trivial, egg-headed 
 details."\n\nDiana Turken was born and raised in Los Angeles, Ca. She is 
 currently working on her MFA degree in Poetry at Mills College. She likes 
 to write about railroad barons, cowboys, and Californians. She is a cable 
 news junkie, a basketball fanatic, and makes her own biscuits from scratch. 
 She lives and works in Oakland.\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/2011/10/04/18692118.php
SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit and Jillian Lauren at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/04/18692118.php
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