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DESCRIPTION:June's Writers With Drinks features Tibetan-American poetry, Grindhouse 
 cinema, cancer memoir, historical fantasy... and guest host Bucky 
 Sinister!\n\nWhen: Saturday June 11 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 
 6:30 PM\nWho: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Jim Morton, Juan Alvarado Valdivia, 
 Anne Gross, and guest host Bucky Sinister!\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\nTsering Wangmo Dhompa is 
 the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2000) and 
 Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collections 
 Rules of the House (2002), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and My Rice 
 tastes like the lake (2011), which was a finalist for the Northern 
 California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. 
 Tsering's non-fiction book based on her life is called A Home in Tibet 
 (Penguin India, 2013). Dhompa has received grants from the San Francisco 
 Arts Commission and the Galen Rowell Fund and has been a writing fellow at 
 the MacDowell Colony and Hedgebrook. She is pursuing a PhD in Literature at 
 the University of California, Santa Cruz. In May 2013, Dhompa was a 
 featured writer on Harriet.\n\nJuan Alvarado Valvidia is the author of 
 ¡Cancerlandia!: A Memoir. His fiction and nonfiction have been published 
 in The Acentos Review, Black Heart Magazine, BorderSenses Literary Magazine 
 and Label Me Latina/o. He's a member of the Voices of Our Nations 
 Foundation (VONA) family and attended the fiction workshop at the Community 
 of Writers at Squaw Valley. He's had residencies at the Brush Creek 
 Foundation for the Arts and at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New 
 Mexico -- where he befriended two Taos Indian women who approved of his 
 self-dubbed Native American name, “Rock You Like a Hurricane.”\n\nJim 
 Morton is a San Francisco-based film historian. In the early eighties, he 
 wrote and published Trashola, one-sheet zine devoted to sleaze and horror 
 movies. This led to his role as the guest editor for Re/Search’s 
 Incredibly Strange Films, one of the first books to take a critical look at 
 exploitation and low-budget movies. Next he turned to popular culture as 
 the editor of Pop Void, a book examining aspects of modern culture that 
 were completely ignored at the time. His essays on film have appeared in 
 numerous books and magazines, and he was invited to speak at the 2010 
 Revelation Film Festival in Perth, where he introduced two films by Russ 
 Meyer and screened examples of some of his favorite forgotten films. More 
 recently, he is the blogger behind eastgermancinema.com, a site that 
 examines films from the former GDR, along with the culture that produced 
 them. He is currently working on a history of East German films.\n\nAnne 
 Gross is the author of The Conjured Woman, a novel about a displaced 21st 
 Century nurse stuck in the seedy early 19th Century when Napoleon invaded 
 Spain.\n\nGuest Host Bucky Sinister is the author of a novel called Black 
 Hole. He also wrote the self-help books Get Up and Still Standing: Addicts 
 Talk About Living Sober. His poetry books include King of the Roadkills, 
 All Blacked Out and Nowhere To Go, Whiskey & Robots, Time Bomb Snooze 
 Alarm, and Twelve Bowls of Glass. He is one of the organizers of the comedy 
 event The Business, and also the regular spoken word/comedy series Hard 
 Lessons.\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/2016/06/05/18787251.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with guest host Bucky Sinister
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/05/18787251.php
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