BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1464587:Event:203583 DTSTAMP:20260418T215536Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Veronica Belmont and Mattilda Bernste in Sycamore! DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks is setting fire to its shoes and danci ng in the ashes! When: Saturday, May 11, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, door s open at 6:30 PM Who: Veronica Belmont, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Thaisa Frank, Seth Harwood, George Chen and Janis Cooke Newman! Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco How much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC About the writers/readers : Veronica Belmont is a technology and gaming-centric video host base d in San Francisco. Currently her projects include Tekzilla (a weekly tech help and how-to show on Revision3.com), Fact or Fictional on Tech Feed, and The Sword and Laser, a science fiction and fantasy video sho w, podcast and community, co-hosted with Tom Merritt. Recently Veronic a appeared on BBC America as the co-host of Gizmodo: The Gadget Tester s, and she was the original host of Qore on the PlayStation Network. A s a voice actor, Veronica has appeared in Fallout: New Vegas (Old Worl d Blues) and the animated series SuperF*ckers. Mattilda Bernstein Syc amore is most recently the author of a memoir, The End of San Francisc o. She's also the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Fla ming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Con form (AK Press 2012), a Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book. Mattilda is the author of two novels, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights 200 8) and Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003). She is the editor of fou r additional nonfiction anthologies, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rule s of Gender and Conformity (Seal 2007), That’s Revolting! Queer Stra tegies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2004; 2008), Dangerous F amilies: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004), and Tricks and Tre ats: Sex Workers Write about Their Clients (Haworth 2000), which now a lso appears in Italian (Effepi Libri 2007). Thaisa Frank’s third co llection of short fiction is The Fiction of Enchantment. Her most rece nt novel, Heidegger’s Glasses, takes place in the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII, the safety of which is threatened for ever. It was published in 2010, reissued in paperback in 2011 and sold to ten foreign countries before publication. She is also the author o f Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage, both on the Be stseller List of the San Francisco Chronicle. Thaisa has received two PEN awards and her stories have been widely-anthologized—the most re cent of which are in A Dictionary of Dirty Words, Harper/Collins Reade r’s Choice and Rozne Ksztatly Milocsi. She has published critical es says on writing and art and is the author of the Afterward to Viking/P enguin’s most recent edition of Voltaire.  Seth Harwood’s new n ovel In Broad Daylight comes out May 7th, and he’s excited to read f rom it publicly for the first time at Writers with Drinks. In Broad Da ylight features FBI agent Jess Harding chasing a bloody serial killer across the summer planes and white nights of Alaska. Seth has also pub lished three other crime novels—Young Junius, This Is Life and the b estselling Jack Wakes Up – the last two of which take place in San F rancisco and feature Jack Palms, ex-actor and would-be private sleuth. Janis Cooke Newman is the author of the Bay Area Bestseller, Mary ( published in hardcover by MacAdam/Cage, and in paperback by Harcourt), a historical novel about Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary was a Los Angeles Ti mes Book Prize Finalist, chosen as USA Today's Best Historical Fiction of the Year, and a Booksense Year-End Highlight. Newman is also the a uthor of The Russian Word for Snow (St. Martin's Press, 2001), a memoi r about adopting her son from a Moscow orphanage. \n\nFor more informa tion visit https://trueskool.com/events/writers-with-drinks-with-veron ica-belmont-and-mattilda-bernstein DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130511T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130511T213000 CATEGORIES:san, francisco, ca LOCATION:San Francisco, CA WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT:415-647-2888 ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/Charl ieJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR