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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks closes out the year with one of our most amazing 
 line-ups. Including some of our all-time favorite writers!\n\nWhen: 
 Saturday, December 8, 2012, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM\nWho: 
 Amy Tan, Nalo Hopkinson, Michael Krasny, Jason Roberts, Emanuel Xavier and 
 Ned Rozell\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San 
 Francisco\nAdmission: $10 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the 
 CSC and the Transgender Law Center\n\nAbout the writers/readers:\n\nAmy 
 Tan's next book is The Valley of Amazement. Her other books include The Joy 
 Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, Saving Fish from Drowning, The Hundred 
 Secret Senses, Rules for Virgins and Saving Fish from Drowning. She wrote 
 the libretto for the opera of The Bonesetter's Daughter, and was a member 
 of the band the Rock Bottom Remainders. She wrote two children's books, The 
 Moon Lady and Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat, as well as numerous articles 
 for magazines, such as The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, and National 
 Geographic. At Writers With Drinks, she'll be reading “Fifty Shades of 
 Tan: what I learned after nineteen years of whipping the boys in the 
 band.”\n\nNalo Hopkinson is currently working on "Donkey," a contemporary 
 fantasy novel, and on "Blackheart Man," a fantastical alternate history set 
 in an imagined Caribbean. Her previous books include the novels Brown Girl 
 in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads and The New Moon’s Arms, and 
 the story collection Skin Folk. She is a recipient of the John W. Campbell 
 Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and a 
 two-time recipient of the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the 
 Fantastic. Her novel "Midnight Robber" received Honorable Mention in Cuba's 
 Casa de las Americas prize for literature written in Creole.\n\nMichael 
 Krasny, Ph.D., is host of KQED's award-winning Forum, a news and public 
 affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business, 
 and technology. Since 1970, he has been a professor of English at San 
 Francisco State University and has taught at Stanford University and 
 University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of Spiritual 
 Envy: An Agnostic's Quest, published in fall 2010, and "Off Mike: A Memoir 
 of Talk Radio and Literary Life," coauthor of the textbook "Sound Ideas," 
 and creator of the DVD presentation "Masterpieces of Short Fiction." He is 
 the recipient of many awards and honors, including The S.Y. Agnon Gold 
 Medal for Intellectual Distinction, The Eugene Block Award for Human Rights 
 Journalism, The Inclusiveness in Media Award from The National Conference 
 for Community and Justice, and a Koret Foundation Fellowship.\n\nAn 
 Equality Forum GLBT History Month Icon, Emanuel Xavier is an award-winning 
 NYC based spoken word artist of Ecuadorian/Puerto Rican heritage best known 
 for his appearances on Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry on HBO. As a 
 former homeless gay teen, he has staged many benefits for queer youth and 
 is a longtime activist. His poetic manifesto from 1997, Pier Queen, was 
 officially published this year along with a revised edition of his poetry 
 collection, Americano: Growing up Gay and Latino in the USA. He is also 
 author of If Jesus Were Gay & other poems and the novel Christ 
 Like.\n\nJason Roberts is the author of A Sense of the World: How a Blind 
 Man Became History's Greatest Traveler. He founded the educational website 
 Learn2.com and was the editor of The Learn2 Guide. He's also contributed to 
 McSweeney's, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Village Voice, The 
 Believer, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He was the inaugural winner of 
 the Van Zorn Prize for short fiction in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, 
 judged by Michael Chabon, for his story in McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of 
 Astonishing Stories, and he was a finalist for the National Book Critics 
 Circle Award for biography.\n\nNed Rozell is a science writer in Alaska, 
 whose column called “Alaska Science Forum” appears in the Fairbanks 
 Daily News-Miner, the Anchorage Daily News and smaller papers around the 
 state. He is the author of Finding Mars, Alaska Tracks: Footprints In The 
 Big Country From Ambler To Attu and Walking My Dog, Jane: From Valdez to 
 Prudhoe Bay Along the Trans Alaska Pipeline.\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/2012/12/02/18727028.php
SUMMARY:Amy Tan and Nalo Hopkinson at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/02/18727028.php
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