Writers With Drinks w/ Peter Orner & Josh Kornbluth

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San Francisco's most drastic reading series is back after a month off. We just won our fifth Best Of The Bay in a row, and we're celebrating with one of our greatest lineups ever.

When: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM
Who: Peter Orner (Second Coming Of Mavala Shikongo), Josh Kornbluth (Red Diaper Baby), Farhad Manjoo (Slate.com), Zuleikha Mahmoud, and Jeff Carlson
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco
How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the No On 8 campaign.

"This Saturday's Writers With Drinks will be an ALL JELLO JAMES JOYCE SCULPTURE event. And this time, around, we're enforcing the nine-minute time limit more strictly. If our readers haven't succeeded in creating a tableau of James Joyce in nine minutes, they will be required to eat all 27 pounds of jello with a cocktail swizzle. And then recite the final chapter of Ulysses from memory. We don't want a repeat of the 2007 liverwurst Steinbeck debacle. Writers With Drinks just won its fifth Best Of The Bay in a row, and we celebrated so hard last month, we couldn't actually find the Make Out Room afterwards! But now we're back in the groove, with our greatest lineup yet.

Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM
What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS
Featuring: Peter Orner, Josh Kornbluth, Farhad Manjoo and Jeff Carlson
Location: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco
Admission: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the No On 8 campaign.

About the readers/performers:

Peter Orner is the author of The Second Coming Of Mavala Shikongo. He's the co-author of Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, and the author of the short story collection Esther Stories. His work has appeared in Best American Stories 2001, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and the Future Dictionary Of America.

Josh Kornbluth had an interview show, The Josh Kornbluth Show, on KQED for two years, and it's still on in reruns. His one-man shows include Red Diaper Baby and Citizen Josh (which he'll be performing in Washington DC in the run-up to the election.) He co-directed the movie Haiku Tunnel, based on his monologue. He's appeared in the movies Teknolust, The Darwin Awards and
Strange Culture.

Farhad Manjoo is the author of True Enough: Learning To Live In A Post-Fact Society. He writes for Slate.com and previously wrote for Salon.com and Wired News.

Jeff Carlson is the author of the science fiction thrillers Plague War and Plague Year. He's working on a standalone novel, as well as a third novel in the nanotech Plague series. He's also collaborating with David Brin on an adventure novel called Colony High.

About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll five years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy 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.

Hostess Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism at io9.com. She's the author of the Lambda Award-winning Choir Boy (2005 Soft Skull Press) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of She's Such A Geek (Seal Press 2007). She also publishes "Other" magazine."

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