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DESCRIPTION:Last year, Writers With Drinks brought you the special event, "An Evening 
 of Uncomfortable Sex Talk." Now, we bring you "An Evening of Oversharing 
 About Money"!\n\nWhen: Saturday, July 12, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors 
 open 6:30 PM\nWho: J. Bradford DeLong, Carol Queen, Farhad Manjoo, Frances 
 Lefkowitz, Tiny, and Charlie Jane Anders\nWith Guest MC Annalee 
 Newitz!\nHow much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and 
 Culture.\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco\n\nAbout 
 the readers/performers:\n\nJ. Bradford DeLong blogs at Equitable Growth and 
 at Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality. He's professor of economics at U.C. 
 Berkeley, a research associate of the NBER, and was from 1993-1995 a deputy 
 assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He teaches economic history, 
 macroeconomics, economic growth, and occasionally finance, political 
 economy, and principles of economics. He writes, mostly, about the changing 
 nature of the business cycle, the mainsprings of economic growth, the 
 current economy in historical perspective, and the past economy in 
 contemporary perspective.\n\nCarol Queen is the founder of the Center for 
 Sex and Culture, and staff sexologist at Good Vibrations. She's the author 
 or editor of 11 books, including Exhibitionism for the Shy, The Leather 
 Daddy and the Femme, PoMoSexuals, and Sex Spoken Here. She is working on a 
 new memoir.\n\nFarhad Manjoo is the "State of the Art" columnist for the 
 New York Times. He previously worked at Salon, Slate, the Wall Street 
 Journal and elsewhere. He is the author of True Enough: Learning to Live in 
 a Post-Fact Society.\n\nFrances Lefkowitz is the author of To Have Not, a 
 memoir about growing up poor in 1970s San Francisco, which was a 
 SheKnows.com Best Memoir of 2010. Her personal essays have received special 
 mentions for the Pushcart Prize (twice) and Best American Essays, and her 
 fiction, flash fiction, and micro-memoir appear in Tin House, Glimmer 
 Train, Fiction, Rick Barthelme’s New World Writing, and other 
 journals.\n\nCharlie Jane Anders is the organizer of Writers With Drinks 
 and the managing editor of io9.com, a blog about science fiction and 
 futurism. She won a Hugo Award for her novelette "Six Months, Three Days," 
 which was also shortlisted for the Nebula and Sturgeon Awards. She'll be 
 reading a short story about money that can think for itself.\n\nTiny (aka 
 Lisa Gray-Garcia) is the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa 
 POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She founded Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkool- a poor 
 and indigenous people-led skool and the Race, Poverty Media Justice 
 Institute which trains people with race, class or formal education 
 privilege how to implement Revolutionary Giving as well as the Po Poets 
 Project, welfareQUEENs & the Theatre of the POOR to name a few. She is also 
 the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, 
 co-editor of A Decolonizers Guide to A Humble Revolution, Born & Raised in 
 Frisco ( a series of Anti-gentrification narratives) The DGZ - 
 De-Gentrification Zones- a poor people-led plan to anti-gentrification and 
 currently working on her second book- Poverty SkolaShip #101- A 
 PeoplesTeXt.\n\nGuest host Annalee Newitz writes about science, pop 
 culture, and the future. She's the editor in chief of io9. She's the author 
 of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction 
 (Doubleday). She's also published in Wired, The Smithsonian Magazine, The 
 Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, 
 Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She's co-editor of the essay 
 collection She's Such A Geek (Seal Press), and author of Pretend We're 
 Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Duke University Press). 
 Formerly, she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 
 and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley.\n\n\nAbout 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/2014/07/07/18758322.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Brad DeLong and Carol Queen!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St.
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