Writers With Drinks features Nick Bilton, Janet Hardy and Rubén Martínez!

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Writers With Drinks features Nick Bilton, Janet Hardy and Rubén Martínez!

Time: October 20, 2012 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
Street: 3225 22nd. Street
City/State: San Francisco
Info/Tickets/Map: http://www.makeoutroom.com
Phone: 415-647-2888
Event Type: san, francisco, ca
Organized By: Charlie Jane Anders
Latest Activity: Oct 15, 2012

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Could this be the most eclectic Writers With Drinks event yet?

When: Saturday, October 20, 2012, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
Who: Nick Bilton, Deb Campo, Janet Hardy, Rubén Martínez and Carol Quinn
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco
How much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC.

About the readers/performers:

Nick Bilton is a columnist for the New York Times and lead blogger for Bits Blog, covering technology, business and culture. His background spans design, user interface, photography, hardware hacking, and more. Nick currently lives in San Francisco with his dog, Pixel.

Deb Campo made it to the finals of Nick at Nite's Funniest Mom in America 3 with Roseanne Barr, and she was also a finalist in 2006 Rooster T. Feathers and 50 Mason Comedy Club comedy competitions. Debbie Campo is a regular at the Punchline and The Clubhouse in San Francisco and Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale and regularly tours with the comedy troupe "Three Blonde Moms".

Poet, songwriter, nonfiction writer, and documentarian, Rubén Martínez is the author The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City and Beyond, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail, The New Americans, and, most recently, On Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West.

Janet Hardy's latest book is the memoir Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals. She's the author or coauthor of ten groundbreaking books about relationships and sexuality, including The Ethical Slut. Her writing has appeared in publications as various as The Sondheim Review, Clamor, and EIDOS.

Carol Quinn has written for film and television; her most recent project is the feature screenplay Five Days in May, which was sold to director J. Michael McClary. Quinn is the co-creator/author of the first American mass-market graphic novels for girls, Pink Flamingos, the creator of the YA book series Palm Beach Prep, and the narrative and story editor for Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal's memoir As I Am. Her book Follow My Lead is a memoir retelling how her experience training her two Rhodesian ridgebacks taught her about becoming the "alpha dog" in her own life.

About Writers With Drinks:

Writers With Drinks won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll six years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead Maupin's latest Tales of the City novel. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.

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