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DESCRIPTION:October's Writers With Drinks features Pulitzer Prize winner (and now 
 National Book Award finalist) Adam Johnson. Plus Brontez Purnell, Faith 
 Adiele, and more!\n\nWhen: Oct. 24, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 
 6:30 PM\nWho: Adam Johnson, Faith Adiele, Fayette Fox, Daphne Gottlieb, 
 Loren Rhoads and Brontez Purnell!\nHow much: $5 to $20, all proceeds 
 benefit the CSC\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, 
 CA\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nAdam Johnson's newest book is the 
 story collection Fortune Smiles.  His novel The Orphan Master’s Son was 
 published in 2012 by Random House and received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in 
 fiction. He also has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013-14. A 
 Whiting Writers’ Award winner, his work has appeared in Esquire, 
 Harper’s, Playboy, GQ, Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, The New York 
 Times and Best American Short Stories. He is the author of Emporium, a 
 short-story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us. His books have 
 been translated into twenty-three languages. Johnson was a 2010 National 
 Endowment for the Arts Fellow.\n\nLoren Rhoads is the author of The 
 Dangerous Type, Kill By Numbers, and No More Heroes. She was the publisher 
 of Morbid Curiosity magazine. In her secret life, she writes about 
 cemeteries as travel destinations.\n\nBrontez Purnell has been publishing, 
 performing, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author 
 of the cult zine "Fag School," frontman for his band "The Younger Lovers," 
 and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. 
 Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!, a queer electro indie band that 
 gained national prominence in the mid-2000s, Purnell's other prominent 
 artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer 
 independent feature film, "I Want Your Love" (Dir. Travis Mathews, 2012), 
 He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum's L@TE program in 2012, 
 awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency, 
 honored by Out Magazine's 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible 
 Bachelors List, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian's Goldie for 
 Performance/Music. He has published one graphic novel (with illustrator 
 Janelle Hessig) "The Cruising Diaries" (published by Gimme Action),  just 
 published his first novella,"Johnny Would You Love Me (if My Dick Were 
 Bigger)," with Rudos and Rubes, and will publish a second novel, "Since I 
 Laid My Burden Down…," with the Sister Spit imprint of City Lights 
 Books.\n\n\nFaith Adiele is the author of The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s 
 Guide to Lady Problems (Shebooks), and Meeting Faith (W.W. Norton & Co.), 
 which received PEN Beyond Margins Award for Best Memoir of 2004. She's also 
 the co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology 
 and the subject of the PBS documentary My Journey Home. She also co-wrote 
 the multicultural thriller The Student Body: A Novel (Random House). She's 
 been featured in O: The Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire’s 5 Women to Learn 
 From, and the Huffington Post. She has appeared on NPR, on the Tavis Smiley 
 show, in a national television ad for TIAA-CREF, in the pilot for a new 
 reality show, and in a 2-page spread: “A Day in the Life of Faith 
 Adiele” for Pink magazine. She is the recipient of a UNESCO International 
 Artists Bursary, the Millennium Award from Creative Nonfiction, and 16 
 artists’ residencies in Brazil, Canada, Italy and the USA.\n\nFayette 
 Fox's debut novel “The Deception Artist“ was originally published in 
 the UK by Myriad Editionsin 2013, the book was just published in North 
 America by Roaring Forties Press in March 2015. She works as the Writer and 
 Community Manager atJaunty, an organization that teaches social 
 intelligence. She helps people put their best foot forward and find love as 
 the Co-Founder of My Love Ninja, a boutique OkCupid profile makeover 
 service. She is a former commissioning editor for Lonely Planet 
 Publications.\n\nDaphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the 
 gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of ten books 
 including the new collection of short stories, Pretty Much Dead, which 
 addresses the eradication of a city's most vulnerable, from the streets to 
 the rent-controlled -- in a city under siege by the tech industry. Previous 
 works include Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words, a collection of 
 letters from Death Row by the “first female serial killer” to her 
 childhood best friend. She is also the author of five books of poetry, 
 editor of two anthologies, and, with artist Diane DiMassa, the co-creator 
 of the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious. By day, she is band aid in 
 the class war.\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/2015/10/18/18779040.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Adam Johnson and Brontez Purnell!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/18/18779040.php
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