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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's most reliable source of both words and liquor is featuring 
 its most insane all-star lineup ever.\n\nWhen: Saturday, Oct. 11, from 7:30 
 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM\nWho: Jonathan Lethem, Molly Antopol, 
 NoViolet Bulawayo, Natasha Moni, David Gborie and Mallory Ortberg!\nHow 
 much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the CSC\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 
 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nJonathan 
 Lethem's latest novel is Dissident Gardens. He's also the author of Chronic 
 City, You Don't Love Me Yet, The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn, 
 Girl in Landscape, As She Climbed Across the Table, Amnesia Moon and Gun 
 With Occasional Music. Motherless Brooklyn received the National Book 
 Critics Circle award, and he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005. His 
 story collections include How We Got Insipid, Men and Cartoons and The Wall 
 of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye. He also wrote the Omega the Unknown comic, 
 and wrote the nonfiction books The Disappointment Artist, Fear of Music, 
 They Live and The Ecstasy of Influence.\n\nMolly Antopol's debut story 
 collection The UnAmericans was just longlisted for the National Book Award. 
 The recipient of a 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation, her 
 writing has appeared or is forthcoming on NPR’s This American Life and 
 All Things Considered, online at The New Yorker, and in many periodicals, 
 including The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, 
 San Francisco Chronicle, Elle, Oxford American, One Story, Ecotone and 
 elsewhere.\n\nNoViolet Bulawayo is the author of We Need New Names (May 
 2013) which has been recognized with the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum 
 Award for First Fiction, the Pen/Hemingway Award, the Etisalat Prize for 
 Literature, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award (second place), and the 
 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Fiction Selection. We Need New 
 Names was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book 
 Award, and selected to the New York Times Notable Books of 2013 list, the 
 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers list, and others. NoViolet’s 
 story “Hitting Budapest” won the 2011 Caine Prize for African 
 Writing.\n\nNatasha Moni's debut poetry collection is The Cardiologist's 
 Daughter. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have been published in 
 journals including: DIAGRAM, Verse, Indiana Review, Fourteen Hills, Rattle, 
 and Defenestration.\n\nDavid Gborie is a member of Sylvan Productions and 
 the Business. As a comedian he’s appeared at The Bridgetown Comedy 
 Festival, SF Indie Fest, and Denver’s Too Much Funstival, as well as the 
 SF Punchline, The Denver Comedy Works, and other impressive 
 venues.\n\nMallory Ortberg is the founder of The Toast. She's also written 
 for TheHairpin, Eco Salon, Slacktory and Gawker.\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/2014/10/05/18762467.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Jonathan Lethem and Molly Antopol!
LOCATION:Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/05/18762467.php
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