Writers With Drinks with Brad DeLong and Farhad Manjoo

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Writers With Drinks with Brad DeLong and Farhad Manjoo

Time: July 12, 2014 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
Street: 3225 22nd. Street
City/State: San Francisco, CA
Phone: 415-647-2888
Event Type: san, francisco, bay, area, sf, california
Organized By: Charlie Jane Anders
Latest Activity: Jul 7, 2014

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Last year, Writers With Drinks brought you the special event, "An Evening of Uncomfortable Sex Talk." Now, we bring you "An Evening of Oversharing About Money"!

About the readers/performers:

J. Bradford DeLong blogs at Equitable Growth and at Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality. He's professor of economics at U.C. Berkeley, a research associate of the NBER, and was from 1993-1995 a deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He teaches economic history, macroeconomics, economic growth, and occasionally finance, political economy, and principles of economics. He writes, mostly, about the changing nature of the business cycle, the mainsprings of economic growth, the current economy in historical perspective, and the past economy in contemporary perspective.

Carol Queen is the founder of the Center for Sex and Culture, and staff sexologist at Good Vibrations. She's the author or editor of 11 books, including Exhibitionism for the Shy, The Leather Daddy and the Femme, PoMoSexuals, and Sex Spoken Here. She is working on a new memoir.

Farhad Manjoo is the "State of the Art" columnist for the New York Times. He previously worked at Salon, Slate, the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. He is the author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.

Frances Lefkowitz is the author of To Have Not, a memoir about growing up poor in 1970s San Francisco, which was a SheKnows.com Best Memoir of 2010. Her personal essays have received special mentions for the Pushcart Prize (twice) and Best American Essays, and her fiction, flash fiction, and micro-memoir appear in Tin House, Glimmer Train, Fiction, Rick Barthelme’s New World Writing, and other journals.

Charlie Jane Anders is the organizer of Writers With Drinks and the managing editor of io9.com, a blog about science fiction and futurism. She won a Hugo Award for her novelette "Six Months, Three Days," which was also shortlisted for the Nebula and Sturgeon Awards. She'll be reading a short story about money that can think for itself.

Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She founded Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkool- a poor and indigenous people-led skool and the Race, Poverty Media Justice Institute which trains people with race, class or formal education privilege how to implement Revolutionary Giving as well as the Po Poets Project, welfareQUEENs & the Theatre of the POOR to name a few. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, co-editor of A Decolonizers Guide to A Humble Revolution, Born & Raised in Frisco ( a series of Anti-gentrification narratives) The DGZ - De-Gentrification Zones- a poor people-led plan to anti-gentrification and currently working on her second book- Poverty SkolaShip #101- A PeoplesTeXt.

Guest host Annalee Newitz writes about science, pop culture, and the future. She's the editor in chief of io9. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). She's also published in Wired, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She's co-editor of the essay collection She's Such A Geek (Seal Press), and author of Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Duke University Press). Formerly, she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley.

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