OK, I say this every month, but THIS time, Writers With Drinks really has an *all-star lineup*. Check it out!

When: Saturday, Feb. 11 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM
What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS!
Who: Tom Tomorrow, Sarah Schulman, Sean Carroll, Jennifer Ouellette, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and Alia Volz!
How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA

About the readers/performers:

Tom Tomorrow is the creator of the weekly political cartoon, This Modern World, which appears in approximately 80 newspapers across the U.S., and on websites such as Daily Kos, Truthout and Credo. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Spin, Mother Jones, Esquire, The Economist, The Nation, U.S. News and World Report, and The American Prospect, and has been featured on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In 2011, he ended a 16 year run at Salon to create and edit a new comics section at Daily Kos. He has published nine anthologies of his work: Greetings From This Modern World, Tune in Tomorrow, The Wrath of Sparky, Penguin Soup for the Soul, When Penguins Attack, The Great Big Book of Tomorrow, Hell in a Handbasket, The Future’s So Bright I Can’t Bear to Look, and Too Much Crazy.

Sarah Schulman's latest book is Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair. Her recent novel The Cosmopolitans was picked as one of the "Best Books of 2016" by Publishers' Weekly. Her other non-fiction publications include Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America, and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years. Her novels include The Mere Future, The Child, Shimmer, Empathy, Rat Bohemia, People In Trouble, After Delores, Girls Visions and Everything, and The Sophie Horowitz Story.

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He's the author of the books The Particle at the End of the Universe, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time, and Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Sloan Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the Royal Society of London.

Jennifer Ouellette is the author of four popular science books for the general public: Me, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse, The Physics of the Buffyverse, and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics.

Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. His latest book of poems is titled, "Someone's Dead Already" was nominated for a California Book Award. His next book titled "Heaven Is All Goodbyes" is being published in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series.

Alia Volz hosted and produced the landmark reading series Literary Death Match – SF, from 2010-12. She is also an LDM champion; her story “Near Unison” brought home the crown from Episode 42.