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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Juan Alvarado Valvidia
DESCRIPTION:June's Writers With Drinks features Tibetan-American poetr
 y, Grindhouse cinema, cancer memoir, historical fantasy... and guest h
 ost Bucky Sinister!  When: Saturday June 11 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, d
 oors open 6:30 PM Who: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Jim Morton, Juan Alvarad
 o Valdivia, Anne Gross, and guest host Bucky Sinister! How much: $5 to
  $20, all proceeds benefit the CSC Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd
 . St., San Francisco, CA  About the readers/performers:  Tsering Wangm
 o Dhompa is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2
 000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length 
 collections Rules of the House (2002), In the Absent Everyday (2005), 
 and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011), which was a finalist for the 
 Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award 
 for 2012. Tsering's non-fiction book based on her life is called A Hom
 e in Tibet (Penguin India, 2013). Dhompa has received grants from the 
 San Francisco Arts Commission and the Galen Rowell Fund and has been a
  writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony and Hedgebrook. She is pursuin
 g a PhD in Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 
 May 2013, Dhompa was a featured writer on Harriet.  Juan Alvarado Valv
 idia is the author of ¡Cancerlandia!: A Memoir. His fiction and nonfi
 ction have been published in The Acentos Review, Black Heart Magazine,
  BorderSenses Literary Magazine and Label Me Latina/o. He's a member o
 f the Voices of Our Nations Foundation (VONA) family and attended the 
 fiction workshop at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. He's had
  residencies at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts and at The Hel
 ene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico -- where he befriended two Taos
  Indian women who approved of his self-dubbed Native American name, �
 �Rock You Like a Hurricane.”  Jim Morton is a San Francisco-based fi
 lm historian. In the early eighties, he wrote and published Trashola, 
 one-sheet zine devoted to sleaze and horror movies. This led to his ro
 le as the guest editor for Re/Search’s Incredibly Strange Films, one
  of the first books to take a critical look at exploitation and low-bu
 dget movies. Next he turned to popular culture as the editor of Pop Vo
 id, a book examining aspects of modern culture that were completely ig
 nored at the time. His essays on film have appeared in numerous books 
 and magazines, and he was invited to speak at the 2010 Revelation Film
  Festival in Perth, where he introduced two films by Russ Meyer and sc
 reened examples of some of his favorite forgotten films. More recently
 , he is the blogger behind eastgermancinema.com, a site that examines 
 films from the former GDR, along with the culture that produced them. 
 He is currently working on a history of East German films.  Anne Gross
  is the author of The Conjured Woman, a novel about a displaced 21st C
 entury nurse stuck in the seedy early 19th Century when Napoleon invad
 ed Spain.  Guest Host Bucky Sinister is the author of a novel called B
 lack Hole. He also wrote the self-help books Get Up and Still Standing
 : Addicts Talk About Living Sober. His poetry books include King of th
 e Roadkills, All Blacked Out and Nowhere To Go, Whiskey & Robots, Time
  Bomb Snooze Alarm, and Twelve Bowls of Glass. He is one of the organi
 zers of the comedy event The Business, and also the regular spoken wor
 d/comedy series Hard Lessons.\n\nFor more information visit https://tr
 ueskool.com/events/writers-with-drinks-with-juan-alvarado-valvidia
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CATEGORIES:"san francisco", "bay area", sf, california
LOCATION:The Make Out Room
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CONTACT:415-647-2888
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