 About the readers/performers: Ben Loory is the author of the collections Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day and Tales of Falling and Flying, as well as a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. His fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, READ Magazine, and Fairy Tale Review, been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts, and performed live at WordTheatre in Los Angeles and London. They have also been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, and Indonesian.  Annalee Newitz is the author of Autonomous, a new novel from Tor Books. She's the Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica, and the founding editor of io9. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of popular tech site Gizmodo. I'm the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday and Anchor), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She's the co-editor of the essay collection She’s Such A Geek (Seal Press), and author of Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Duke University Press). She was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley, and the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT.  Dr. Jennifer Gunter is an OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician. She authored a book called The Preemie Primer, a guide for parents of premature babies. In addition to her academic publications, her writing has appeared in USA Today, the A Cup of Comfort series, KevinMD.com, EmpowHer.com, Exceptional Parent, Parents Press, Sacramento Parent, and the Marin Independent Journal. She blogs at "Wielding the Lasso of Truth."  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 does Writers With Drinks have in store for November? Wild frontiers in literary fiction, dystopian science fiction, queer spoken word and health blogging! When: Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM Who: Ben Loory, Stephen Elliott, Annalee Newitz, Marvin K. White, Dr. Jennifer Gunter and Maggie Shen King! How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA  Stephen Elliott is the writer/director of the web series Driven as well as the founding editor of the popular online literary magazine The Rumpus. He is the the author of eight books including The Adderall Diaries which was adapted into feature film starring James Franco. His article Silicon Is Just Sand is being developed for a series at A&E. He has directed three movies. The first, About Cherry, premiered at the Berlinale and was released by IFC in 2012. His newest movie, After Adderall, was the closing night film for the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival. His newest book is a collection of essays, Sometimes I Think About It, released by Graywolf Press.  Marvin K. White is the author of four collections of poetry published by RedBone Press: Our Name Be Witness; Status; and the two Lammy-nominated collections last rights and nothin’ ugly fly. His poetry has been anthologized in The Road Before Us: 100 Black Gay Poets; My Brothers Keeper; Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians: New Gay Writing; Things Shaped in Passing; Sojourner: Writing in the Age of AIDS; Bum Rush the Page; Role Call; and Think Again, as well as other local and national publications. He is the co-editor of If We Have to Take Tomorrow: HIV, Black Men & Same Sex Desire. His poetry has also been adapted for stage at San Francisco’s Theater Rhinoceros and he has performed his work himself at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as a part of their 2014 BAN7 Festival. As a former member of the critically acclaimed theater troupe The Pomo Afro Homos’ he has performed nationally and internationally. White is cofounder of B/GLAM (Black Gay Letters and Arts Movement).  Maggie Shen King is the author of An Excess Male, published by Harper Voyager. Her short stories have appeared in Ecotone, ZYZZYVA, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Fourteen Hills. Her manuscript Fortune's Fools, won Second Prize in Amazon's 2012 Breakthrough Novel Award. She is Goodread's September 2017 Debut Author of the Month.  |
El SUPERRITMO! ~ DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~ Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton,
Salsa Buena y mas! ~ $5 before 11pm, $10 after ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am
Salsa Buena y mas! ~ $5 before 11pm, $10 after ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am
