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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest-running spoken word night is going to new frontiers 
 of honesty and also deception. A little of both, really. Honest deception. 
 These are some of our favorite writers, and we hope you like them!\n\nWhen: 
 Jan. 9 from 7 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM\nWho: Anthony Marra, Naomi 
 Williams, Lisa Goldstein, Edward Gauvin, Tracey Knapp and Elizabeth 
 McKenzie\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\nAnthony Marra's latest book is The Tsar of Love and 
 Techno: Stories. He's also the author of The Wolves of Bilaya Forest and A 
 Constellation of Vital Phenomena. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford 
 University, where he now teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. Marra's 
 story "Chechnya" won a Pushcart Prize and a Narrative Prize.\n\nNaomi 
 Williams' first novel is Landfalls, a fictionalized account of the 
 18th-century Lapérouse expedition. Her fiction has appeared in A Public 
 Space, One Story, The Southern Review, and The Gettysburg Review. In 2009, 
 she received a Pushcart Prize and a Best American Honorable 
 Mention.\n\nLisa Goldstein's latest book is Weighing Shadows. She won a 
 National Book Award for her novel The Red Magician, a Mythopoeic Award for 
 her novel The Uncertain Places, and the Sidewise Award for her short story 
 "Paradise Is a Walled Garden." Her other books include Travelers in Magic, 
 The Divided Crown, The Alchemist's Door and Dark Cities 
 Underground.\n\nTracey Knapp's first full-length collection of poems, 
 Mouth, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. She's received scholarships 
 from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg 
 Poetry Fund. Mark Strand and Claudia Emerson each chose her poems for Best 
 New Poets 2008 and 2010. Other work has appeared in Five Points, The 
 National Poetry Review, Red Wheelbarrow Review, The New Ohio Review, The 
 Minnesota Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Connotation Press, Painted Bride 
 Quarterly, No Tell Motel, 236, Failbetter, La Petite Zine, Sewanee 
 Theological Review and elsewhere.\n\nEdward Gauvin is the translator of The 
 Deep Sea Diver Syndrome by Serge Brussolo, which he describes as 
 ""Inception directed by David Cronenberg." He's the winner of the inaugural 
 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation prize for Georges-Olivier 
 Chateaureynaud's A Life on Paper. He's received fellowships and residencies 
 from the Centre National du Livre, Ledig House, the Banff Centre, the 
 Clarion Workshop, and the American Literary Translators Association. His 
 work has appeared in Tin House, Conjunctions, PEN America, Epiphany, The 
 Southern Review, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and The Harvard 
 Review.\n\nElizabeth McKenzie's latest novel is The Portable Veblen. She's 
 the author of a collection, Stop That Girl, short-listed for The Story 
 Prize, and the novel MacGregor Tells the World, a Chicago Tribune, San 
 Francisco Chronicle and Library Journal Best Book of the year. Her work has 
 appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired 
 Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology, and has been recorded for 
 NPR’sSelected Shorts. She was an NEA/Japan\nUS-Friendship Commission 
 Fellow in 2010.\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/2016/01/04/18781464.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Anthony Marra and Naomi Williams
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/04/18781464.php
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