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SUMMARY:Ali Eteraz at Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest-running literary night features th
 e return of superstar author Andrew Sean Greer, plus tons more!  When:
  Dec. 12, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM Who: Andrew Sean
  Greer, Ali Eteraz, Megan Prelinger, and Lydia Popovich! How much: $5 
 to $20, all proceeds benefit the CSC Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22
 nd. St., San Francisco, CA  About the readers/performers:  Andrew Sean
  Greer's latest book is The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells. He's also
  the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York
  Times has called an \"inspired, lyrical novel,\" and The Confessions 
 of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisc
 o Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune while garnering many other coast-t
 o-coast honors. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, and his s
 tory collection, How It Was for Me, were also published to wide acclai
 m. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yor
 ker, and other national publications, and have been anthologized most 
 recently in The Book of Other People and Best American Nonrequired Rea
 ding. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the C
 alifornia Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, a
 nd fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Yo
 rk Public Library. Greer lives in San Francisco.  Ali Eteraz is the au
 thor of the short fiction collection Falsipedes and Fibsiennes. His st
 ories have appeared in storySouth, Chicago Quarterly Review, Akashic B
 ooks, Crossborder, and Forge Journal, among others. Eteraz is the auth
 or of the critically acclaimed darkly comic memoir CHILDREN OF DUST: A
  Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man (HarperCollins, 2009). It was sel
 ected as a New Statesman Book of the Year and was featured on PBS with
  Tavis Smiley, NPR with Terry Gross, C-SPAN2, and numerous internation
 al outlets. The book was called “compelling” by the Washington Pos
 t, and O: The Oprah Magazine, chose it for its Fall Reading List.  Lyd
 ia Popovich is a SF-based comedian. Her anecdotal humor and vivid stor
 ytelling make her a unique voice in a sea of dick jokes. She produces 
 and hosts an all female stand-up showcase in the Bay Area called Ladie
 s Love that takes place the second Tuesday of each month at The Layove
 r in Oakland. She's a paid regular at Rooster T. Feathers, San Jose Im
 prov, Punch Line SF, Punch Line Sacramento and Cobb's Comedy Club. She
  placed second in the 2014 She Devil Comedy Competition and has been f
 eatured in SF Sketchfest 2013, 2014 and 2015. As well as the Women In 
 Comedy Festival 2013 and Cape Fear Comedy Festival 2014. She recently 
 performed 4 minutes of stand-up on Creepy KOFY Movie Time and taught D
 erek Waters how to take a Jell-O shot on Comedy Central's Drunk Histor
 y.  Megan Prelinger is a cultural historian and the author of two book
 s: Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age (WWNort
 on, 2015) and Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race (Bla
 st Books, 2010). As an artist in residence at the Exploratorium from 2
 009 to 2013, she is co-author, with Rick Prelinger, of five graphic at
 lases of Bay Area landscape history that are installed as a permanent 
 exhibit in the museum. She is co-founder, also with Rick, of the Preli
 nger Library in San Francisco, an independent research library open to
  the public, and is the architect of its unique information design sys
 tem. She also is a naturalist and leads birding walks with San Francis
 co Nature Education\n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.co
 m/events/ali-eteraz-at-writers-with-drinks
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CATEGORIES:san, francisco, bay, area, sf, california
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
WEBSITE:
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CONTACT:415-647-2888
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