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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest running reading series is back -- with 
 comics/thriller writer Greg Rucka and David Lynch collaborator Barry 
 Gifford!\n\nWhen: Saturday, May 12, 2012, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 
 6:30 PM\nWho: Greg Rucka, Barry Gifford, Terry Johnson, Elena Rose and Liz 
 Henry!\nWhere: 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\nBarry Gifford’s books include The Phantom Father, 
 named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Wyoming, named a Los 
 Angeles Times Novel of the Year, and which has been adapted for the stage 
 and film; The Sinaloa Story; The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A 
 Barry Gifford Reader; Do the Blind Dream?; and The Stars Above Veracruz. 
 His book Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati in Italy, and he has 
 been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, 
 the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the 
 Christopher Isherwood Foundation. David Lynch’s film Wild at Heart, which 
 was based on Gifford’s novel, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film 
 Festival in 1990, and his novel Perdita Durango was made into a feature 
 film by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia in 1997. Barry Gifford co-wrote 
 with director David Lynch the film Lost Highway (1997); he also co-wrote 
 with director Matt Dillon the film City of Ghosts (2003), as well as the 
 libretto for Ichiro Nodaira’s opera, Madrugada (2005). His most recent 
 books are The Cavalry Charges (essays), and Memories from a Sinking Ship 
 (fiction).\n\nGreg Rucka is the author of nearly a dozen novels, six 
 featuring bodyguard Atticus Kodiak, and two featuring Tara Chace, the 
 protagonist of his Queen & Country series. Additionally, he has penned 
 several short-stories, countless comics, and the occasional non-fiction 
 essay. In comics, he has had the opportunity to write stories featuring 
 some of the world’s best-known characters—Superman, Batman, and Wonder 
 Woman—as well as penning several creator-owned properties himself, such 
 as Whiteout and Queen & Country, both published by Oni Press. His work has 
 been optioned several times over, and his services are in high-demand in a 
 variety of creative fields as a story-doctor and creative 
 consultant.\n\nTerry Johnson is the co-author of How to Defeat Your Own 
 Clone, with Kyle Kurpinski. He teaches bioengineering at UC Berkeley and 
 wrote the "Ask a Biogeek" column for io9.\n\nElena Rose co-curates the Girl 
 Talk spoken word series, writes online as “Little Light,” and travels 
 the country as a preacher and poet. Her work has turned up everywhere from 
 college classrooms to bathroom mirrors to protest marches, in magazines 
 including Aorta and Make/Shift, and on the acclaimed spoken-word album It 
 Is Better to Speak! Rose is currently finishing her first book, Mountain of 
 Myrrh, forthcoming from Dinah Press, and attends seminary in Northern 
 California.\n\nLiz Henry's books of poetry include Unruly Islands, Mother 
 Frankenstein, artless, Woodbird Jazzophone and Short. She's also published 
 several collections of poetry translations, including Toward an Anthology 
 of Spanish American Women Poets, 1880 – 1930. She also co-edited the 
 poetry anthology Cuts from the Barbershop.\n\nAbout Writers With 
 Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks 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. And it was namechecked in Armistead Maupin's 
 latest Tales of the City novel. 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/2012/05/08/18713161.php
SUMMARY:Barry Gifford and Greg Rucka at Writers With Drinks!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/08/18713161.php
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