This Saturday: Writers With Drinks
Writers With Drinks has become so self-aware, we can get drunk on our own
> emotional baggage. But we still provide alcohol for those of you who are
> less evolved. And for this month only, we'll be giving free epiphanies to
> anybody who can name the 37 secret under-presidents of the hidden colonies.
>
> When: Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM
> Who: Aimee Bender, Ariel Gore, Wagner James Au, Simone Corday, Izzy Oneiric
> and Edwin Li
> Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San
> Francisco
> How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale.
>
> About the readers/performers:
>
> Aimee Bender is the author of The Girl In The Flammable Skirt, An Invisible
> Sign Of My Own and Willful Creatures. Her stories have appeared in Granta,
> GQ, Harper's, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, and been heard on
> PRI's This American Life and Selected Shorts.
>
> Ariel Gore is the author of How To Become A Famous Writer Before You're
> Dead, The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show and Atlas of the Human
> Heart. She's also the editor of Hip Mama magazine.
>
> Wagner James Au blogs about Second Life at New World Notes. His book, The
> Making of Second
> Life: Notes from the New World, will be out in February.
>
> Simone Corday is the author of 9 1/2 Years Behind The Green Door, a memoir
> of her career as a performer at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater. She
> was famous for performing in a gorilla suit, and became Hunter S. Thompson's
> favorite dancer.
>
> Edwin Li has been a stand-up comic for over five years. He's performed at
> the Punch Line Comedy Club, Rooster T. Feathers and the SF Comedy All-Stars.
> He's also hosted the Comedy Youth Forum.
>
> Izzy Oneiric's poetry and other writing has appeared in Mississippi Review,
> Comet, other, Spike, Red Booth Review, Exquisite Corpse, Opium, Lodestar
> Quarterly and many other places. She's the poetry editor of other magazine.
> Her chapbooks include Dancing, Kissing, Yelling, and The Art Of Restraint.
>
> If this doesn't satisfy your spoken-word jones for this month, Writers With
> Drinks hostess Charlie Anders is also taking part in a reading on Jan. 31 at
> 8 PM, for Stephen Elliott's new book of politically inspired saucy fiction
> from Harper Collins. Also reading are Michelle Tea, Michelle Richmond, Liz
> Henry, Daphne Gottlieb, and Mistress Morgana. It takes place at CSC, 1519
> Mission Street between 11th Street and South Van Ness.
>
> emotional baggage. But we still provide alcohol for those of you who are
> less evolved. And for this month only, we'll be giving free epiphanies to
> anybody who can name the 37 secret under-presidents of the hidden colonies.
>
> When: Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM
> Who: Aimee Bender, Ariel Gore, Wagner James Au, Simone Corday, Izzy Oneiric
> and Edwin Li
> Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San
> Francisco
> How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale.
>
> About the readers/performers:
>
> Aimee Bender is the author of The Girl In The Flammable Skirt, An Invisible
> Sign Of My Own and Willful Creatures. Her stories have appeared in Granta,
> GQ, Harper's, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, and been heard on
> PRI's This American Life and Selected Shorts.
>
> Ariel Gore is the author of How To Become A Famous Writer Before You're
> Dead, The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show and Atlas of the Human
> Heart. She's also the editor of Hip Mama magazine.
>
> Wagner James Au blogs about Second Life at New World Notes. His book, The
> Making of Second
> Life: Notes from the New World, will be out in February.
>
> Simone Corday is the author of 9 1/2 Years Behind The Green Door, a memoir
> of her career as a performer at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater. She
> was famous for performing in a gorilla suit, and became Hunter S. Thompson's
> favorite dancer.
>
> Edwin Li has been a stand-up comic for over five years. He's performed at
> the Punch Line Comedy Club, Rooster T. Feathers and the SF Comedy All-Stars.
> He's also hosted the Comedy Youth Forum.
>
> Izzy Oneiric's poetry and other writing has appeared in Mississippi Review,
> Comet, other, Spike, Red Booth Review, Exquisite Corpse, Opium, Lodestar
> Quarterly and many other places. She's the poetry editor of other magazine.
> Her chapbooks include Dancing, Kissing, Yelling, and The Art Of Restraint.
>
> If this doesn't satisfy your spoken-word jones for this month, Writers With
> Drinks hostess Charlie Anders is also taking part in a reading on Jan. 31 at
> 8 PM, for Stephen Elliott's new book of politically inspired saucy fiction
> from Harper Collins. Also reading are Michelle Tea, Michelle Richmond, Liz
> Henry, Daphne Gottlieb, and Mistress Morgana. It takes place at CSC, 1519
> Mission Street between 11th Street and South Van Ness.
>