When: Saturday, June 14, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM
What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS!
Who: Daniel H. Wilson, Adam Rogers, Jordan Ellenberg, Mimi Lipson and
Kendra DeColo!
How much: $5 to $10, all proceeds benefit the CSC
About the readers/performers:
Daniel H. Wilson's latest novel is Robogenesis. He's also the author
of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and seven other books,
including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, A Boy and His Bot, and
Amped. In 2008, he hosted The Works on the History Channel. He earned
a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters
degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. His novel
Robopocalypse was purchased by DreamWorks and is currently being
adapted for film by Steven Spielberg.
Adam Rogers is the author of Proof: The Science of Booze. He's the
articles editor at Wired, where his feature story “The Angels’ Share”
won the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. Before coming to
Wired, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a writer
covering science and technology for Newsweek.
Jordan Ellenberg's new book is How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of
Mathematical Thinking. Ellenberg has held an NSF-CAREER grant and an
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and in 2013 he was named one of the
inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. His
work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, Wired, The Believer, and the Boston Globe, and he is
the author of the “Do the Math” column in Slate. His Wired feature
story on compressed sensing appeared in the Best Writing on
Mathematics 2011 anthology.
Mimi Lipson's first book the Cloud of Unknowing. Her stories have
appeared in BOMB, Harvard Review, Joyland, Witness, Brooklyn Rail, and
elsewhere.
Kendra DeColo is the author of Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia
Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia
Books Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Southern Indiana Review, The Collagist, CALYX, Muzzle Magazine, and
elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship
from the Tennessee Arts Commission, a work-study scholarship from the
Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and residencies from the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts and the Millay Colony. The founding
poetry editor of Nashville Review and a Book Review Editor at Muzzle
Magazine, she lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers 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.
What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS!
Who: Daniel H. Wilson, Adam Rogers, Jordan Ellenberg, Mimi Lipson and
Kendra DeColo!
How much: $5 to $10, all proceeds benefit the CSC
About the readers/performers:
Daniel H. Wilson's latest novel is Robogenesis. He's also the author
of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and seven other books,
including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, A Boy and His Bot, and
Amped. In 2008, he hosted The Works on the History Channel. He earned
a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters
degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. His novel
Robopocalypse was purchased by DreamWorks and is currently being
adapted for film by Steven Spielberg.
Adam Rogers is the author of Proof: The Science of Booze. He's the
articles editor at Wired, where his feature story “The Angels’ Share”
won the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. Before coming to
Wired, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a writer
covering science and technology for Newsweek.
Jordan Ellenberg's new book is How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of
Mathematical Thinking. Ellenberg has held an NSF-CAREER grant and an
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and in 2013 he was named one of the
inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. His
work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, Wired, The Believer, and the Boston Globe, and he is
the author of the “Do the Math” column in Slate. His Wired feature
story on compressed sensing appeared in the Best Writing on
Mathematics 2011 anthology.
Mimi Lipson's first book the Cloud of Unknowing. Her stories have
appeared in BOMB, Harvard Review, Joyland, Witness, Brooklyn Rail, and
elsewhere.
Kendra DeColo is the author of Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia
Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia
Books Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Southern Indiana Review, The Collagist, CALYX, Muzzle Magazine, and
elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship
from the Tennessee Arts Commission, a work-study scholarship from the
Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and residencies from the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts and the Millay Colony. The founding
poetry editor of Nashville Review and a Book Review Editor at Muzzle
Magazine, she lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers 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.
El SUPERRITMO! DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~ Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas bailables pa' las nenas ~ 10pm, $5
