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DESCRIPTION:Guest host Austin Grossman takes Writers With Drinks on a tour of strange 
 realms and forbidden adventures!\n\nWhen: Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, 7:30 to 
 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM\nWho: Austin Grossman, Mira Grant, Julie Ann 
 Long, C.W. Gortner and Gene Luen Yang\nWith special guest host Austin 
 Grossman!\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\nAustin Grossman is the author of You and Soon I Will Be 
 Invincible, which was nominated for the 2007 John Sargent Sr. First Novel 
 Prize. His writing has also appeared in Granta, the Wall Street Journal, 
 and the New York Times. He's also worked as a game developer on such titles 
 as Epic Mickey, Tomb Raider Legend, and Dishonored.\n\nGene Luen Yang's new 
 two-part graphic novel is called Boxers & Saints. American Born Chinese, 
 released by First Second Books in 2006, became the first graphic novel to 
 be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American 
 Library Association’s Printz Award. It also won an Eisner Award. The 
 Eternal Smile, a collaborative project with Derek Kirk Kim in 2009, won an 
 Eisner as well.\n\nMira Grant's new novel is Parasite, and she also wrote 
 the Newsflesh Trilogy. As Seanan McGuire, she's the Campbell Award-winning 
 author of the October Daye novels and the Incryptid series. She's also 
 published a book of short fiction, When Will You Rise, and the "Velveteen 
 vs." series of superhero fiction.\n\nThe author of five popular novels from 
 Warner and eight from Avon, Julie Anne Long lives in California with a fat 
 orange cat (little known fact: they issue you a cat the moment you become a 
 romance novelist).\n\nCW Gortner is the author of the The Elizabeth I 
 Spymaster Chronicles, a series of historical novels set in Tudor England. 
 He's also working on a novel about the early years of Lucrezia 
 Borgia.\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" 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/2013/10/29/18745611.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Austin Grossman and Gene Luen Yang
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/29/18745611.php
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