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DESCRIPTION:Survive the robot uprising, learn about the science of booze, discover how 
 not to be wrong, and delve into literary awesomeness in the latest 
 installment of the most unstoppable reading series!\n\nWhen: Saturday, June 
 14, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM \nWho: Daniel H. Wilson, 
 Adam Rogers, Jordan Ellenberg, Mimi Lipson and Kendra DeColo! \nHow much: 
 $5 to $10, all proceeds benefit the CSC\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 
 22nd. St., San Francisco\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nDaniel H. 
 Wilson's latest novel is Robogenesis. He's also the author of the New York 
 Times bestselling Robopocalypse and seven other books, including How to 
 Survive a Robot Uprising, A Boy and His Bot, and Amped. In 2008, he hosted 
 The Works on the History Channel. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie 
 Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence 
 and Robotics. His novel Robopocalypse was purchased by DreamWorks and is 
 currently being adapted for film by Steven Spielberg.\n\n Adam Rogers is 
 the author of Proof: The Science of Booze. He's the articles editor at 
 Wired, where his feature story “The Angels’ Share” won the 2011 AAAS 
 Kavli Science Journalism Award. Before coming to Wired, he was a Knight 
 Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a writer covering science and 
 technology for Newsweek.\n\n Jordan Ellenberg's new book is How Not to Be 
 Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. Ellenberg has held an NSF-CAREER 
 grant and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and in 2013 he was named one of 
 the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. His 
 work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the 
 Washington Post, Wired, The Believer, and the Boston Globe, and he is the 
 author of the “Do the Math” column in Slate. His Wired feature story on 
 compressed sensing appeared in the Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 
 anthology.\n\n Mimi Lipson's first book the Cloud of Unknowing. Her stories 
 have appeared in BOMB, Harvard Review, Joyland, Witness, Brooklyn Rail, and 
 elsewhere.\n\n Kendra DeColo is the author of Thieves in the Afterlife 
 (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 
 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming 
 in Southern Indiana Review, The Collagist, CALYX, Muzzle Magazine, and 
 elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the 
 Tennessee Arts Commission, a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf 
 Writer’s Conference, and residencies from the Virginia Center for the 
 Creative Arts and the Millay Colony. The founding poetry editor of 
 Nashville Review and a Book Review Editor at Muzzle Magazine, she lives in 
 Nashville, Tennessee.\n\n About Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks 
 has won numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned 
 in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City 
 novels. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for 
 local 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/2014/06/09/18757161.php
SUMMARY:Mimi Lipson and Daniel H. Wilson at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/09/18757161.php
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