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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Gene Luen Yang
DESCRIPTION:Guest host Austin Grossman takes Writers With Drinks on a 
 tour of strange realms and forbidden adventures!  When: Saturday, Nov.
  9, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM Who: Austin Grossman,
  Mira Grant, Julie Ann Long, C.W. Gortner and Gene Luen Yang With spec
 ial guest host Austin Grossman! Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. S
 t., San Francisco How much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds bene
 fit the CSC  About the writers/readers:  Austin Grossman is the author
  of You and Soon I Will Be Invincible, which was nominated for the 200
 7 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. His writing has also appeared in
  Granta, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He's also wo
 rked as a game developer on such titles as Epic Mickey, Tomb Raider Le
 gend, and Dishonored.  Gene Luen Yang's new two-part graphic novel is 
 called Boxers & Saints. American Born Chinese, released by First Secon
 d Books in 2006, became the first graphic novel to be nominated for a 
 National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Associat
 ion’s Printz Award. It also won an Eisner Award. The Eternal Smile, 
 a collaborative project with Derek Kirk Kim in 2009, won an Eisner as 
 well.  Mira Grant's new novel is Parasite, and she also wrote the News
 flesh Trilogy. As Seanan McGuire, she's the Campbell Award-winning aut
 hor of the October Daye novels and the Incryptid series. She's also pu
 blished a book of short fiction, When Will You Rise, and the \"Velvete
 en vs.\" series of superhero fiction.  The author of five popular nove
 ls from Warner and eight from Avon, Julie Anne Long lives in Californi
 a with a fat orange cat (little known fact: they issue you a cat the m
 oment you become a romance novelist).  CW Gortner is the author of the
  The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles, a series of historical novels s
 et in Tudor England. He's also working on a novel about the early year
 s of Lucrezia Borgia.   About Writers With Drinks:  Writers With Drink
 s won \"Best Literary Night\" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll s
 ix years in a row and was named \"Best Literary Drinking\" and \"Best 
 Literary Hour\" by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead 
 Maupin's latest Tales of the City novel. The spoken word \"variety sho
 w\" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-win
 ning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, 
 romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs i
 n a freewheeling format.\n\nFor more information visit http://trueskoo
 l.com/events/writers-with-drinks-with-gene-luen-yang
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131109T213000
CATEGORIES:literary, reading, spoken, word, books, comics, gene, luen,
  yang
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco
WEBSITE:
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CONTACT:415-647-2888
ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/Charli
 eJaneAnders
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