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DESCRIPTION:This month at Writers With Drinks, former This American Life producer Diane 
 Cook reads from Man V. Nature, and WWD host Charlie Jane Anders reads her 
 own novel!\n\nWhen: Feb. 13 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 
 PM\nWho: Diane Cook, Pagan Kennedy, Judy Budnitz, Meredith Maran, Tongo 
 Eisen-Martin, and Charlie Jane Anders!\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\nJudy Budnitz has written one novel, 
 If I Told You Once, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. And two 
 short story collections, Flying Leap and Nice Big American Baby.\n\nDiane 
 Cook is the author of the story collection Man V. Nature, and was formerly 
 a producer for the radio show, This American Life. Man V. Nature was a 
 finalist for the Believer Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Art 
 Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, received Honorable Mention for the 
 PEN/Hemingway award, and was recently longlisted for the Guardian First 
 Book Award. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s, Tin House, Granta, and 
 elsewhere and anthologized in Best American Short Stories.\n\nMeredith 
 Maran is the editor of Why We Write About Ourselves: 20 Memoirists on Why 
 They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature. She also 
 edited Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They 
 Do. Her other books include A Theory of Small Earthquakes, My Lie: A Story 
 of False Memory, 50 Ways to Support Gay and Lesbian Equality, Dirty, Enough 
 About You, Class Dismissed and Notes From An Incomplete Revolution. She's a 
 National Book Critics Circle and the MacDowell Fellows West, who writes 
 features, essays, and book reviews for People, Salon, The Los Angeles 
 Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Review of 
 Books, Real Simple, Mother Jones, Good Housekeeping, and other 
 publications.\n\nPagan Kennedy's new book is Inventology: How We Dream Up 
 Things That Change The World. Her other books are The First Man-Made Man, 
 Black Livingstone, Spinsters, The Exes, Confessions of a Memory Eater, 
 'Zine, Stripping and Other Stories, and The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and 
 Other True Stories. She was the Innovation columnist for the New York Times 
 Magazine. She has received a Smithsonian fellowship, a Massachusetts Book 
 Prize honor in nonfiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts 
 fellowship.\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone's dead already, 
 a poetry collection. He has educated in detention centers from New York's 
 Rikers Island to California's San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers 
 Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at 
 the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia 
 University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education, he 
 designed curricula for oppressed people's education projects from San 
 Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing 
 of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational 
 and organizing tool throughout the country.\n\nCharlie Jane Anders has been 
 organizing Writers With Drinks since 2001. She's the author of a new novel 
 called All the Birds in the Sky. She's the editor of io9, a website about 
 science fiction and futurism. Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s 
 Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tor.com, 
 Lightspeed, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies. Her novelette 
 “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo award.\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/2016/02/08/18782724.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Diane Cook, Pagan Kennedy & Charlie Jane Anders
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/08/18782724.php
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