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SUMMARY:Variny Yim reads at Writers With Drinks!
DESCRIPTION:December's Writers With Drinks includes Jewish humor, psyc
 hic powers, award-winning fiction, perverse poetry, and the Immigrant 
 Princess!When: Saturday, Dec. 10 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6
 :30 PMWho: Michael Krasny, Daryl Gregory, Anne Raeff, Variny Yim, Vidh
 u Aggarwal and Garrett CaplesHow much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit
  the CSCWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CAAbo
 ut the readers/performers:Michael Krasny's latest book is Let There Be
  Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means. Kra
 sny is a scholar and Professor of English and American Literature at S
 an Francisco State University, the host of KQED’s “Forum with Mich
 ael Krasny,” an award winning broadcast journalist, and author of tw
 o acclaimed books, Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life 
 and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Search. Since 1993 he has been the
  host of “Forum with Michael Krasny,” a news and public affairs in
 terview program produced at KQED Radio, the National Public Radio affi
 liate in San Francisco, California.Daryl Gregory is an award-winning w
 riter of genre-mixing novels, stories, and comics. His novels include 
 Spoonbenders (upcoming from Knopf), Harrison Squared, Afterparty, Pand
 emonium, Raising Stony Mayhall, The Devil’s Alphabet, and the World 
 Fantasy Award- winning short novel We Are All Completely Fine. His sto
 ries are collected in Unpossible and Other Stories.Anne Raeff’s stor
 ies and essays have appeared in New England Review, ZYZZYVA, and Guern
 ica among other places. Her first novel CLARA MONDSCHEIN’S MELANCHOL
 IA was published in 2002 (MacAdam/Cage). Her short story collection, T
 HE JUNGLE AROUND US won the 2015 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fic
 tion and will be published in October 2016. She is proud to be a high 
 school teacher and works primarily with recent immigrants. She too is 
 a child of immigrants and much of her writing draws on her family’s 
 history as refugees from war and the Holocaust. Variny Yim is a first
  generation, Cambodian-American author. In 2008, Variny collaborated o
 n her first book with Jessica Blatt (Press) entitled, The Teen Girl’
 s Gotta-Have-It Guide to Money (Watson-Guptill/Penguin Random House). 
 Variny’s first novel, The Immigrant Princess, will be released June 
 2016.Vidhu Aggarwal's multi-media works in video, poetry, and scholars
 hip are oriented around Bollywood spectacle, Mardi Gras, and science f
 iction. Her poems have appeared in Juked, [PANK], Pedestal, Sugar Hous
 e Review, INK BRICK, Project As [I] Am, and Norton’s Language for a 
 New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyon
 d, and The Electronic Gurlesque(Saturnalia 2016). A Kundiman fellow, s
 he is the founding editor of SPECS, a multi-media journal with issues 
 on “Homuncular Flexibility,” “Toys,” and “Faux Histories.”
  She has worked with John Sims Projects on “The 13 Flag Funerals” 
 in Florida, and with artist Bishakh Som on “Lady Humpadori,” a poe
 try/comic book collaboration. Her collection of poems The Trouble with
  Humpdori (2016) received the Editor's Choice Prize from The (Great) I
 ndian Poetry Collective. Her latest manuscript, Avatara, concerns the 
 romance between a temporary Y2K tech worker and a unicorn A.I. She is 
 on the executive board of Thinking Its Presences: Race, Advocacy, Soli
 darity in the Arts, and teaches poetry and postcolonial/transnational 
 studies at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.Garrett Caples is t
 he author of Power Ballads (Wave Books, 2016), Retrievals (2014), The 
 Garrett Caples Reader (1999), Complications (2007), and Quintessence o
 f the Minor (2010).\n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.co
 m/events/variny-yim-reads-at-writers-with-drinks
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CATEGORIES:"san francisco", "bay area", "san francisco, ca"
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
WEBSITE:http://www.makeoutroom.com
URL:http://www.makeoutroom.com
CONTACT:415-647-2888
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