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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks is going way over the top, and then dropping a 
 ladder.\n\nWhen: Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 
 6:30 PM\nWho: Kim Stanley Robinson, Tom Barbash, Douglas Lain, Kim Wong 
 Keltner, Tatyana Brown and Mollena Williams\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 writers/readers:\n\nKim Stanley Robinson's 
 latest book is Shaman. His other books include 2312, Galileo's Dream, the 
 Mars Trilogy, the Years of Rice and Salt, Antarctica, the Science in the 
 Capital series, and the Three Californias trilogy. Robinson's novels have 
 won 11 major science fiction awards, including multiple Hugos and Nebulas, 
 plus the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award and the Locus 
 Award.\n\nTom Barbash's new book is the story collection Stay Up With Me. 
 He's the author of the award-winning novel The Last Good Chance and the 
 non-fiction book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, 
 and 9/11; A Story of Loss and Renewal, which was a New York Times 
 bestseller. His stories and articles have been published in Tin House, 
 McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications, and have 
 been performed on National Public Radio's Selected Shorts series.\n\nKim 
 Wong Keltner's books include Buddha Baby, The Dim Sum of All Things, I Want 
 Candy and Tiger Babies Strike Back.\n\nDouglas Lain is the author of Billy 
 Moon, a novel about Christopher Milne, the real-life inspiration for 
 Christopher Robin in the Winnie the Pooh stories. Lain's other works 
 include the "bizarro fiction" volume Wave of Mutilation and the Diet Soap 
 zine and podcast.\n\nMollena "Mo" Williams is a NYC born and raised writer, 
 Leatherwoman, actress, BDSM Educator, fat fetish model and Executive 
 Pervert. She is honored to have served as International Ms Leather 2010 and 
 Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009. Consciously submissive since 1993 and 
 Active in the Leather and BDSM communities since 1996, she keeps it real 
 all over the US, Europe and Canada on myriad BDSM, Leather and kinkcentric 
 topics. Mo authored the "The Toybag Guide: Taboo Play," the essay "BDSM and 
 Playing with Race" which appears in Best Sex Writing 2010, has two essays 
 appearing in Tristan Taormino's Ultimate Guide to Kinky Sex and is 
 co-author, along with Lee Harrington of the upcoming book Playing Well With 
 Others.\n\nTatyana Brown is the founding Captain of The Lit Slam, a San 
 Francisco-based, live-audience- curated literary journal. She ranked 4th in 
 the world of competitive performance poetry at the 2011 Individual World 
 Poetry Slam. Brown has toured North America as a poet, read poems to 
 teenagers on the mountaintops of British Columbia, told tales on NPR’s 
 true-life storytelling show, Snap Judgment, and sold instant literature 
 ranging from short fiction to wedding vows as a street vending freelance 
 writer in New York City. She holds the distinct honor of winning the 
 longest consecutive string of XXX Haiku Deathmatch Championships at 
 Oakland’s notorious variety show, Tourettes Without Regrets (and she did 
 so with sex-positive, progressive, feminist comedy).\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" and "Best Literary Hour" 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/2013/10/07/18744463.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Kim Stanley Robinson and Mollena Williams
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/07/18744463.php
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