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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest-running spoken word variety show is back, with 
 quite possibly our biggest lineup yet!\n\nWhen: Saturday, June 9, 2012, 
 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM\nWho: Anthony Swofford, Geeta Dayal, 
 Vanessa Veselka, David Moles and Raj Patel!\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\nAnthony Swofford's 
 books include Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir, Exit A, and Jarhead. 
 Swofford served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target 
 Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. After the war, he was 
 educated at American River College; the University of California, Davis; 
 and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at the 
 University of Iowa and Lewis and Clark College. His fiction and nonfiction 
 have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa 
 Review, and other publications. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, 
 he lives in New York.\n\nGeeta Dayal is a staff writer at Wired.com, 
 specializing in culture reporting. She's also the author of Another Green 
 World, a recent book on Brian Eno. She is the recent recipient of a major 
 grant from Creative Capital | The Andy Warhol Foundation in the Arts 
 Writers Program. She has written over 150 articles and reviews for major 
 publications, including Frieze, Bookforum, The Wire, The Village Voice, The 
 New York Times, The International Herald-Tribune, Print, Wired, Rhizome, 
 and many more. Her essays appear in several anthologies on music, including 
 The New Grove Dictionary of Music (Oxford, 2011), Loops (Faber & Faber, 
 2009), The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (Zer0, 2009), The Pitchfork 
 500 (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and Marooned (Da Capo, 2007). She has taught 
 several courses as a lecturer in new media and journalism at the University 
 of California – Berkeley, Fordham University, and the State University of 
 New York.\n\nRaj Patel's first book was Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden 
 Battle for the World Food System, and his latest, The Value of Nothing, is 
 a New York Times best-seller. He’s currently a visiting scholar at UC 
 Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, an Honorary Research Fellow at the 
 School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a 
 fellow at The Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food 
 First. He is currently an IATP Food and Community Fellow. He has testified 
 about the causes of the global food crisis to the US House Financial 
 Services Committee and is an Advisor to the United Nations Special 
 Rapporteur on the Right to Food. In addition to numerous scholarly 
 publications, he regularly writes for The Guardian, and has contributed to 
 the LA Times, NYTimes.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Mail on Sunday, 
 and The Observer.\n\nVanessa Veselka is the author of Zazen. She has been, 
 at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, a 
 student of paleontology, an expatriate, an independent record label owner, 
 a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother. Her work has appeared in Arthur, 
 Bust, Bitch, Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll, and elsewhere.\n\nDavid Moles was a 
 finalist for the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His 
 novelette “Finisterra” won the 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 
 and was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award. His fiction and poetry have 
 been published in Polyphony, Say…, Rabid Transit, Flytrap, Lady 
 Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Asimov’s, and The Magazine of Fantasy and 
 Science Fiction, as well as on Strange Horizons. He co-edited All-Star 
 Zeppelin Adventure Stories with Jay Lake and the World Fantasy 
 Award–nominated Twenty Epics with Susan Marie Groppi.\n\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/2012/06/06/18714857.php
SUMMARY:Anthony Swofford and Raj Patel at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
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