The result is a blend of high- and lowbrow humor, literature and culture that accomplishes what Anything That Moves and Other Magazine once did: defy categories, bring together communities and expose people to new modes of expression. Much of the series' success results from the well-connected Anders' ability to mix literary luminaries and newly discovered talents... Not to be overlooked are Anders' innovative author introductions, which stitch together current events and self-commentary. -- San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 11, 2010
WRITERS IN DRAG Cross-drafting is the new cross-dressing as local literary talents show off works they've written outside of their normal genres. -- Spin Magazine, January 2007
BEST LITERARY DRINKING. Charlie Anders' "Writers With Drinks" continues on, five years strong. What's her secret? Variety! ... You're bound to stay interested if you find
yourself listening to revered children's author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) one moment and local comedian W. Kamau Bell the next. Throw in a few cartoonists, sex workers, radio hosts and big-shot authors like Andrew Sean Greer, Vendela Vida and Michelle Tea -- as well as the hostess ... and you've got a seriously (and not so seriously) good time. -- SF Weekly, Best of San Francisco 2006
What happens when you throw two science fiction writers, a sketch comedy troupe, a poet, a memoirist, and a 'fetish diva' in a room together and ply them with booze? Even host, founder, and Choir Boy author Charlie Anders can't say for sure, but her monthly events -- half salon, half reading -- are never boring. -- SF Flavorpill, issue 188
BEST LITERARY NIGHT. Writers with drinks are writers ready to meet the world, and when our readers have a hankering to see these often spectacular mismatches, they turn (yes!) to Writers With Drinks -- a kind of roving public salon and reading series -- to put drinks in writers' hands and thrust them onstage to bring their works to life. For those who equate literary with stuffy, WWD will come as a plesantly relaxed surprise. -- San Francisco Bay Guardian, Best of the Bay, Readers Poll 2005
Literary ringmaster Charlie Anders insists her series of tavern-based readings is set up so that "no one's competing," but she herself is used to being up against stiff competition.
"There's a guy doing a striptease on a unicycle, a guy wrestling a fish and Armistead Maupin doing a reading," she says incredulously of the options on any given Saturday night in SF. "Your [event] has to be better than fish wrestling." It's a tough standard to live up to, but over the last four years Writers With Drinks: Spoken Word Varity Show has become the event that everybody's talking about — and talking at, for that matter. Snagging appearances by big- and small-name poets, comedians and authors, Anders also strives to keep the audience diverse... According to Anders: "You can get drunk, take someone home and wake up unable to remember who you slept with — but you'll remember the readings. That's my goal." -- 7x7 Magazine, April 2005
OK, so a stand-up comic, a literary agent, a hostage negotiator, a sex worker and a KALW radio current-affairs personality walk into a bar .... No, this isn't an off-color joke, it's Writers with Drinks, the spoken-word variety show that mixes genres, styles and cocktails, back again with a more-eclectic-than-usual concoction. Hosted by the incisive and very connected writer Charlie Anders, the monthly series celebrates writers from every corner of the literary world, as well as pundits and comedians and a few other sundry performers and intellectuals. -- SFGate.com's Epicks, Jan. 7, 2005
BEST LITERARY NIGHT. Where would we be without writers? And where would writers be without their drinks? For answers, our readers recommend delving into the fascinating, sometimes frightening world of Writers with Drinks' monthly "Spoken Word Variety Show." A veritable literary frenzy, Writers with Drinks nights consistently feature an eclectic mix of writers expounding on a vast array of topics, in genres ranging from erotica to poetry to science fiction. -- San Franciso Bay Guardian, Best of the Bay, Readers Poll 2004
The secret to a good variety show doesn't solely rest on the shoulders of the individual acts themselves, but, rather, in the force that keeps the show moving ahead. Charlie Anders, who is often called upon to emcee others' events due to the sheer cleverness and savoir faire that roll off her like a demure tsunami, steered the barge for her own monthly series Writers with Drinks last Sunday at the Makeout Room. There's something about a lanky genderfudger (coining a term here, due to language issues) in a tutu at dusk that puts the wheels in motion for good times. -- SFGate.com, "Buzz Town," June 23
"BEST REASON TO CELEBRATE. When six ink-stained wretches -- whose writings cover every topic from journalism to erotica -- come together to read their own work, a stimulating brand of mayhem is bound to ensue. Whether your tastes run toward literary prose, poetry, comedy, romance, mystery or even science fiction, this reading series/variety show lives up to its name... With an emcee who tops off the proceedings with off-kilter jokes and fanciful bios of the participants, the thought-provoking banter and persiflage are a welcome departure from all the stale entertainment options out there." -- Improper Bostonian Magazine, "Best of Boston" issue.
"To benefit other magazine, [Charlie Anders produces] literary events called Writers with Drinks--bibulous, variety-show-style readings that brought together authors from disparate literary genres like science fiction, erotica, slam poetry, and romance writing together for one night to share the stage. 'Ideally, [Writers with Drinks] would show how all these different genres have a lot in common, how each one is really using words to try to evoke a response, but at the same time, celebrate the differences between them.'" -- Boston Phoenix, Nov. 14-20 2003 issue.
"'Writers With Drinks' is a hell of a good idea -- there isn't an author on the planet wh wouldn't be a bit more tolerable if the audience, not to mention the author, had knocked back a few." -- The Boston Phoenix, August 29, 2003
"Ultimately, the evening had not really been about books or book sales, but about stage performance. Like the rest of the audience, I had been amply entertained. Even with my unopened book carton in tow, I didn't feel like a frustrated Tupperware lady. I felt like someone who'd been a part, albeit a dull part, of something just a little ground breaking in Cambridge." -- Jan Brogan, Boston Globe, April 20, 2003
"OKAY, first of all, Writers With Drinks is the best name for a reading series in a long, long time. Second, its mission, to throw together a range of writers who under other circumstances would never share a stage, is highly laudable. Too many readings are so boring because the readers all drone the same kind of work; at least this one promises to be unpredictable. Third, it's honchoed and hosted by San Francisco's Charlie Anders ... who's a very funny character." -- The New York Press, Sept. 15, 2002
"One gin-soaked evening last year, local lit maven Charlie Anders organized her first group of irreverent writer friends for a reading at Cafe Du Nord, and -- voila! -- Writers With Drinks was born. Now a monthly feature at everyone's favorite dark-wood-and-red-velvet-adorned former speakeasy, Writers With Drinks brings you an eclectic, quality mix of literary fiction, stand-up comedy, romance, erotica, science fiction, rants, nonfiction, poetry, mystery and 'other.'" -- SF Gate, June 13, 2002
A chill wind was already sweeping down upon Juneteenth and North Beach Festival revelers alike; the indoor Writers With Drinks benefit for not- yet-launched Other Magazine seemed like a sensible alternative. It was warm enough inside that event co-organizer and emcee Charlie Anders was wearing a strapless, flounce-skirted '80s cocktail dress that only she or Joan Collins could truly have carried off. So what is Other Magazine? "It's a magazine for people and ideas who are outside categories," said Bay Guardian columnist Annalee Newitz. Hence, a program that included Cory Doctorow's science fiction, Lynn Breedlove's sex'n'drugs'n'bike couriering novel "Godspeed," and Newitz's own musings on Web-based fan-fic. -- Laurel Wellman, SF Chronicle, June 18, 2002
"Liquid courage: Add a little locution to your evening at 'Writers with Drinks,' an event that promises spoken word, erotica, comedy, poetry, and, most intriguingly, "rants" by local literary and performing luminaries. Get Saturday night rolling with words of wisdom, wisecracks, and maybe even some verbal abuse." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian,
Jan. 9, 2002.
Malinda Lo (Last Night at the Telegraph Club)
Khan Wong (The Circus Infinite)
Betsy Aoki (Breakpoint)
Sumiko Saulson (Within Me Without Me: A Book of Dark Poetry and Prose)
PLUS SPECIAL GUEST HOST Celeste Chan (Queer Rebels)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Trans Life Line.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Isaac Fellman (Dead Collections)
Nefertiti Asanti (fist of wind)
Daphne Gottlieb (Saint 1001)
tanea lunsford lynx (Still Here VI: Existence as Resistance)
Kar Johnson (Foglifter)
PLUS SPECIAL GUEST HOST Baruch Porras Hernandez (I Miss You, Delicate)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Trans Life Line.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jaime Cortez (Gordo)
Shanthi Sekaran (The Samosa Rebellion)
Josiah Luis Alderete (Baby Axolotls and Old Pochos)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the campaign against recalling Chesa Boudin.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Kirstin Chen (Counterfeit)
Julia Serano (Sexed Up)
Jon Papernick (I Am My Beloveds)
Shelly Oria (I Know What's Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom)
Maurisa Thompson (The City Is Already Speaking)
Ramona Laughing Brook Webb (Latimer Lights the Way)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Amy Schneider (Jeopardy champ!)
Jordan Ellenberg (Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything)
Nina LaCour (Yerba Buena)
Elsa Sjunneson (Being Seen)
Claire Light/Jadie Jang (Monkey Around)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Vanessa Hua (Forbidden City)
Juba Kalamka (Son of Byford)
Shelley Wong (As She Appears)
Adele Bertei (Why Labelle Matters)
Naseem Jamnia (The Bruising of Qilwa)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
EVENTS IN 2021
Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021:
Lucy Sante (Maybe the People Would Be the Times)
Adele Bertei (Why Labelle Matters)
Baruch Porras-Hernandez (Love in the Time of Pinatas)
Mike DeCapite (Jacket Weather)
Nazelah Jamison (Evolutionary Heart)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Trans Life Line.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Brontez Purnell (100 Boyfriends)
Shruti Swamy (The Archer)
Tongo Eisen-Martin (Blood on the Fog)
Cat Rambo (You Sexy Thing)
Stephen van Dyck (People I've Met from the Internet)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the TGI Justice Project
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
EVENTS IN 2020
Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020:
Irene McCalphin aka Magnoliah Black (The Virgo Homo Thugs for the Revolution)
Joe Wadlington (The New Yorker)
SNJV (SACH)
Robert Andrew Perez (the field)
FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST HOST Baruch Porras-Hernandez!
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Trans Life Line.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Charles Yu (Interior Chinatown)
Meng Jin (Little Gods)
Aaron Glantz (Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream)
Tracy Clark-Flory (Jezebel)
Juliette Wade (Mazes of Power)
Barbara Tomash (PRE-)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
EVENTS IN 2019
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019:
Colin Winnette (The Job of the Wasp)
Arwen Elys Dayton (Stronger, Faster & More Beautiful)
Simon Sheppard (Man on Man: The Best of Simon Sheppard)
Rene Vaz (Planet of the Dead)
Izzy Oneiric (The Year Is Sunday: a lyric memoir)
John Briscoe (Crush: The Triumph of California Wine)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Be the first to buy Charlie Jane's new novel!
Gayle Brandeis (The Book of Dead Birds)
Chris Denson (Crushing the Box)
Lisa Margonelli (Underbug)
Laleh Khadivi (The Age of Orphans)
David Brothers (the4thletter!)
Charlie Jane Anders (The City in the Middle of the Night)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Josiah Luis Alderete (The Spanglish Power Hour)
Kyle Thomas Smith (Cockloft: Scenes From a Gay Marriage)
SevanKeelee Boult (Chile! Hood Stories: A Fairy’s Tale)
Leslie Miley (The Musings of a Black Man in Tech)
Maurisa Thompson (La Bloga)
Isaac R. Fellman (The Breath of the Sun)
WITH GUEST HOST Elena Rose!
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Trans Lifeline.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Saskia Vogel (Permission)
Arkady Martine (The Memory of Empire)
Michelle Cruz Gonzales (The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band)
Mike Chen (Here and Now and Then)
Peng Shepherd (The Book of M)
Susannah Breslin (Forbes Vices)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the St. James Infirmary
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Mallory O'Meara (The Lady From the Black Lagoon)
Kate Hope Day (If, Then)
T.J. Berry (Space Unicorn Blues)
Joanna Robinson (Vanity Fair)
Andrea Lawlor (Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl)
Preeti Vangani (Mother Tongue Apologize)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit SF Community Health
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree)
Achy Obejas (Tower of the Antilles)
Marga Gomez (Latin Standards)
Rachelle Linda Escamilla (Me Drawing a Picture of Me[n])
Josiah Luis Alderete (The Spanglish Power Hour)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit Border Angels
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Gabby Rivera (Juliet Takes a Breath, America)
Helen Phillips (The Need, The Beautiful Bureaucrat)
Sarah Gailey (Magic For Liars, American Hippo)
Troy Jollimore (Syllabus of Errors: Poems)
Grace Lavery (Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan)
Natasha Dennerstein (Anatomize)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit a local nonprofit, TBA.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift)
Vanessa Hua (A River of Stars)
Seth Katz (Satanic Feminism)
Lynn Breedlove (45 Thought Crimes)
Sarah Rose Etter (The Book of X)
Brandon Melendez (home/land)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit Kehilla Immigration Committee
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Yangsze Choo (The Night Tiger)
Fonda Lee (Jade City, Cross Fire)
Evan Ramzipoor (The Ventriloquists)
Molly Tanzer (Creatures of Will and Temper)
Shelly Oria (Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From the #MeToo Movement)
Pete Bailey (Trans Homo... Gasp!)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit a local nonprofit, TBA.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Michelle Ruiz Keil (All of Us With Wings)
Imani Gandy (Rewire News)
Dr. Jennifer Gunter (The Vagina Bible)
Vivian Ho (Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids)
Marta Acosta (The Dog Thief)
Nazelah Jamison (Evolutionary Heart)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit a local nonprofit, TBA.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Mike Isaac (Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber)
Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline)
V. Vale (RE/SEARCH: Incredibly Strange Music)
Malkia Devich Cyril (Media Justice)
Nathaniel Popkin (The Year of the Return)
Aubrey Hirsch (Why We Never Talk About Sugar)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Women's Cancer Resource Center
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Meg Elison (The Book of Flora)
Amanda Rosenberg (That's Mental!: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill)
Alvin Orloff (Disasterama! Adventures in the Queer Underground)
Olga Zilberbourg (Like Water and Other Stories)
Megan E. O'Keefe (Velocity Weapon)
Zoe Young (McSweeney's)
FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST HOST Maggie Tokuda-Hall!
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Nature Conservancy.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
EVENTS IN 2018
Saturday, January 13, 2018:
Amelia Gray (Isadora)
Rob Reid (After On, Year Zero)
Brontez Purnell (Since I Laid My Burden Down)
Kate Elliott (The Court of Fives, Black Wolves)
Frances Stroh (Beer Money)
Baruch Porras-Hernandez (¿Donde Esta Mi Gente?)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Steph Burt (Advice from the Lights, Belmont)
Angela Pneuman (Lay It on My Heart)
Ellen Klages (Passing Strange, Wicked Wonders)
Molly Sauter (The Coming Swarm)
Jasmine Guillory (The Wedding Date)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Literary Pop Takes Over Writers With Drinks!
MK Chavez (Mothermorphosis, Dear Animal)
Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Also an Octopus)
Kelly Anneken (Twenty Minutes to Sell)
Natalia Vigil (What Always Was)
Amanda Muniz (KQED Presents: Bad Immigrants)
Sam DiSalvo (More Fun at Blondie's)
Plus guest host Wonder Dave!
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Chelsey Johnson (Stray City)
Shobha Rao (Girls Burn Brighter)
Lilah Sturges (Jack of Fables)
Javier Zamora (Unaccompanied)
Dominica Phetteplace (Zyzzyva, Asimov's Science Fiction)
Chiwan Choi (The Yellow House)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (The Fact of a Body)
Allegra Huston (Say My Name)
Cyrus Farivar (Habeas Data)
Maw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts: New and Selected Poems)
C.B. Lee (Not Your Villain)
Irene Tu (Man Haters comedy show)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Chandler Klang Smith (The Sky Is Yours)
Nitasha Tiku (Wired)
Adam Becker (What Is Real?)
Vernon Keeve III (Southern Migrant Mixtape)
Molly Sanchez (Killing My Lobster)
Joanna Angel (Night Shift: A Choose-Your-Own Erotic Fantasy)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Esmé Weijun Wang (The Border of Paradise)
Adam Smyer (Knucklehead)
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
Dickson Lam (Paper Sons)
Tina LeCount Myers (The Song of All)
Beth Winegarner (Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa)
SPECIAL GUEST HOST: Carol Queen! (Exhibitionism for the Shy)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (A Kind of Freedom)
Hannah Pittard (Visible Empire)
Cassandra Khaw (A Song for Quiet, Bearly a Lady)
Marlee Jane Ward (Welcome to Orphancorp)
Jack Kaulfus (Tomorrow or Forever)
S.L. Huang (Zero Sum Game)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Jane Smiley (Golden Age, Moo, A Thousand Acres)
R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries: A Novel)
Maria Dahvana Headley (The Mere Wife: A Novel)
Barbara Jane Reyes (Invocation to Daughters)
Courtenay Harmeister (Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Anita Sarkeesian (History Vs. Women)
Sam Sax (bury it, madness)
Cassandra Dallett (Collapse)
Christine No (The Rumpus, Story Magazine)
Rose Eveleth (Flash Forward)
Indira Allegra (Blackout)
WITH GUEST HOST Elena Rose (Queer & Trans Artists of Color Vol. 2)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Rachel Khong (Goodbye, Vitamin)
Kirstin Chen (Bury What We Cannot Take)
L.A. Kauffman (How to Read a Protest)
Achy Obejas (The Tower of the Antilles)
Tara Sim (Chainbreaker, Firestarter)
tammy lynne stoner (Sugar Land)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Shawn Wen (This American Life)
Jennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems)
May-Lee Chai (Useful Phrases for Immigrants)
Bryan Thao Worra (On the Other Side of the Eye)
Alan Chazaro (Ghost Town Literary Review)
Jaymee Goh (The Sea is Ours: Steampunk Tales of Southeast Asia)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
EVENTS IN 2017
Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017:
Jeff Chang (We Gon' Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation)
Wendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook)
Aya de Leon (Uptown Thief)
Jennifer Dronsky (Winner, Alameda Comedy Competition)
Antonio Garcia Martinez (Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley)
WITH GUEST HOST Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Tom Tomorrow (This Modern World)
Sean Carroll (The Particle at the End of the Universe)
Jennifer Ouellette (Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self)
Alia Volz (Chasing Arrows)
Sarah Schulman (The Cosmopolitans, Conflict is Not Abuse)
Tongo Eisen-Martin (Someone's Dead Already)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Shobha Rao (An Unrestored Woman)
Paul Vangelisti (Border Music)
L.A. Kauffman (Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism)
Leena Trivedi-Grenier (Leena Eats)
Aviva Siegel (Witches Brew, SF Sketchfest)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Hari Kunzru (White Tears)
Ilana C. Myer (Fire Dance)
Shelley Wong (Rare Birds)
Eileen Gunn (Questionable Practices)
Kate Erickson (The Moth)
Siel Ju (Cake Time)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Lindy West (Shrill)
Julia Vinograd (Graffiti: Poems, Suspicious Characters: Poems)
Meg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife)
George Higgins (There, There)
Zahra Noorbakhsh (#GoodMuslimBadMuslim)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Glen David Gold (Sunnyside, Carter Beats The Devil)
Mark Oshiro (Mark Does Stuff)
Yume Kim (sPARKLE + bLINK)
Robyn Bennis (The Guns Above)
Christina Ann Marie DiEdoardo (Lanza's Mob: The Mafia and San Francisco)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit Westside's AIDS Case Management Program, AND the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Jade Chang (The Wangs vs. the World)
Sarah Gailey (River of Teeth)
Tom Pyun (Eleven Eleven)
Jackson Crawford (The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes)
Jason Bayani (Locus of Control)
Earle McCartney (ZYZZYVA)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Gabe Hudson (Gork, the Teenage Dragon)
Anna Pulley (The Lesibian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!)
Nick Farmer (creator of Belter language in The Expanse)
Indigo Moor (Through the Stonecutter's Window)
Inkoo Kang (MTV News)
Toni Newman (I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman)
Plus Special Guest Host Carol Queen!
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Daniel H. Wilson (The Clockwork Dynasty, Robopocalypse)
Meredith May (I, Who Did Not Die)
Natasha Dennerstein (Triptych Caliform)
Juba Kalamka (Son of Byford, Oogabooga Under Fascism)
Alvin Orloff (Gutter Boys, Why Aren't You Smiling?)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
NOTE: THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH DUE TO LITQUAKE
THEME: STRANGE ROMANCE
Devorah Major (Brown Glass Windows, and then we became)
Margaret Rhee (Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love)
Thomas Centolella (Almost Human)
Celeste Chan (Queer Rebels)
Chris Brown (Tropic of Kansas)
Shawna Kenney (Live at the Safari Club, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Ben Loory (Tales of Falling and Flying)
Stephen Elliott (The Adderall Diaries)
Annalee Newitz (Autonomous)
Maggie Shen King (An Excess Male)
Dr. Jen Gunter (Wielding the Lasso of Truth)
Marvin K. White (Our Name Be Witness, last rights, nothin' ugly fly)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Becky Chambers (A Closed and Common Orbit)
Alyssa Cole (An Extraordinary Union)
Dean Rader (Self Portrait as Wikipedia Entry)
David D. Levine (Arabella and the Battle of Venus)
Danna Staaf (Squid Empire: Rise and Fall of the Cephaolpods)
Lauren Sanders (The Book of Love and Hate)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
EVENTS IN 2016
Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016:
Anthony Marra (A Constellation of Vital Phenomena)
Naomi Williams (Landfalls)
Lisa Goldstein (Weighing Shadows, The Red Magician)
Tracey Knapp (Mouth)
Edward Gauvin (The Deep Sea Diver Syndrome)
Elizabeth McKenzie (The Portable Veblen)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
CELEBRATING CHARLIE JANE'S NEW BOOK
Diane Cook (Man v. Nature, This American Life)
Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky)
Meredith Maran (Why We Write About Ourselves)
Tongo Eisen-Martin (someone's dead already)
Pagan Kennedy (Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World)
Judy Budnitz (Nice Big American Baby)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Joyce Maynard (Under the Influence)
Helene Wecker (The Golem and the Jinni)
Peter Tieryas (United States of Japan)
Noah Smith (Noahpinion/Bloomberg View)
Charlotte Shane (Prostitute Laundry)
Danny Thanh Nguyen (AS IS)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Adam Savage (Mythbusters)
Isabel Yap (A Cup of Salt Tears)
Princess Kali (Enough to Make You Blush: Erotic Humiliation)
Andrew Lam (Birds of Paradise Lost)
Miriam Bird Greenberg (In the Volcano's Mouth)
With Co-Host Annalee Newitz (Scatter, Adapt, and Remember)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Special NYC Event!
Naomi Novik (Uprooted, the Temeraire Series)
Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad, Zone One)
Annalee Newitz (Scatter, Adapt, and Remember)
Aparna Nancherla (Late Night With Seth Meyers)
Jee Leong Koh (Steep Tea)
Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky)
Cost: $10 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit Housing Works.
At The Delancey, 168 Delancey St., New York. Doors open at 7 PM.
Special Chicago Event!
Luis Alberto Urrea (Queen of America, Into the Beautiful North)
Audrey Niffenegger (The Raven Girl, The Time Traveler's Wife)
Dan Sinker (Mayor Emanuel)
Kristin Clifford (Lincoln Lodge stand-up comedy show)
Roger Reeves (King Me)
Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky)
Cost: $12, no-one turned away
At Martyrs', 3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, at 8 PM.
NOTE: THIRD SATURDAY FOR ONCE!
Guy Gavriel Kay (Children of Earth and Sky)
Yangsze Choo (The Ghost Bride)
David Lau (Virgil and the Mountain Cat)
Kwan Booth (Black Futurists Speak: An Anthology of New Black Writing)
Ariel Waldman (What's It Like in Space?)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (In the Absent Everyday)
Anne Gross (The Conjured Woman)
Juan Alvarado Valdivia (¡Cancerlandia!)
Jim Morton (Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films)
Rain DeGrey (Feminine Dominance: The Joy of Topping)
GUEST HOST: Bucky Sinister (Black Hole)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Charles Stross (The Nightmare Stacks)
Sarah Kuhn (Heroine Complex)
Shruti Swamy (Prairie Schooner)
Abigail Ulman (Hot Little Hands)
Allison Mick (San Francisco Sketchfest)
Anne Lesley Selcer (A Book of Poems on Beauty)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Emmanuel Saadia (Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek)
Carlos Allende (Love, or the Witches of Windward Circle)
Roberto F. Santiago (Angel Park)
Wendy Newman (121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love and Live Happily Ever After (Really!))
Baruch Porras-Hernandez (¿Donde Esta Mi Gente?)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Anuradha Roy (Sleeping on Jupiter)
Margaret Wappler (Neon Green)
Curtis Chen (Waypoint Kangaroo)
Na'amen Gobert Tilahun (The Root)
Hollie Hardy (How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems)
Dominique Gelin (Millennials Ruin Everything, The Lazy Brunch Hour)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Colin Dickey (Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places)
Micah Perks (What Becomes Us)
Juliana Delgado Lopera (¡Cuéntamelo!)
Wonder Dave (Seduction Feroce)
Jiz Lee (Coming Out Like a Porn Star)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Hannah Pittard (Listen to Me, Reunion)
Gwynn O'Gara (Snake Woman Poems, Winter at Green Haven)
Ethan Davidson (David and Son)
Constance Hale (Sin and Syntax, The Natives Are Restless)
Cherry Zonkowski (Cheeky Tiki Gang Bang)
WITH GUEST HOST Elena Rose
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Michael Krasny (Let There Be Laughter)
Daryl Gregory (Spoonbenders, Afterparty)
Anne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us)
Variny Yim (The Immigrant Princess)
Garrett Caples (Retrievals)
Vidhu Aggarwal (The Trouble with Humpadori)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
EVENTS IN 2015
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015:
Octavio Solis (La Posada Magica, Man of the Flesh)
Joshua Davis (Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream)
Sandra Lim (The Wilderness)
Tim Johnston (Descent: A Novel)
S. Bear Bergman (Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter)
Stefani Silverman (Cobb's Comedy Club)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Ruth Ozeki (A Tale For The Time Being)
David Koehn (Twine)
Kate Willett (The Mission Position, Convent Comedy)
Rose Caraway (The Sexy Librarian's Blog-Cast)
Eve Rickert (More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory)
Nayomi Munaweera (Island of a Thousand Mirror)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Ken Liu (The Grace of Kings)
Annie Sprinkle (Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular Sex)
Michelle Richmond (The Year of Fog)
Aimee Suzara (Souvenir)
Joanne Harris (Gospel Of Loki)
Michelle Tea (How To Grow Up)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Joel Selvin (Smart Ass: The Music Journalism Of Joel Selvin)
Kelli Stanley (City of Ghosts)
Kim-Mai Cutler (Techcrunch)
Michael Warr (The Armageddon of Funk)
Muthoni Kiarie (The Sacred Ibis)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Nina Hartley (Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex, How to be Kinkier)
Shideh Etaat (Quiet Lightning)
Catie DiSabato (The Ghost Network)
Claire Bidwell Smith (After This, Rules of Inheritance)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Sabaa Tahir (An Ember in the Ashes)
Josh Kalscheur (Tidal)
Matt Lieb (Winner, Rooster T. Feathers Comedy Competition)
Jacob Paul (Sara/Sarah, A Song of Ilan)
Rin Kelly (Kenyon Review Online)
Alexandra Naughton (you could never objectify me more than i've already objectified myself)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
N.K. Jemisin (The Fifth Season)
Maggie Tokuda-Hall (And Also An Octopus)
Maw Shein Win (Ruins of a glittering palace)
Ocean Capewell (The Most Beautiful Rot)
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier (Collateral Damage: A Triptych)
Jessica Sele (The Mission Position)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Eli Horowitz (The Pickle Index, The New World)
Fran Wilde (Updraft)
Ruth Galm (Into The Valley)
Bucky Sinister (Black Hole)
Maisha Z. Johnson (Queer As In)
Debbie Yee (Handmade Rabbit Society)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
NOTE -- FOURTH SATURDAY, DUE TO LITQUAKE!
Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master's Son)
Faith Adiele (Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun)
Loren Rhoads (The Dangerous Type, Morbid Curiosity)
Brontez Purnell (Fag School)
Faith Adiele (The Nigerian-Nordic Girl's Guide to Lady Problems)
Daphne Gottlieb (Pretty Much Dead)
Fayette Fox (The Deception Artist)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Sarah Jeong (The Internet of Garbage)
Carrie Patel (The Buried Life)
K. Tempest Bradford (Strange Horizons, io9)
Jessica Erica Hahn (Transient Ways, Elysian Fields: A Fucked Up Love Story)
S. Kay (Reliant: An Apocalypse in Tweets)
Michael Collins (How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Andrew Sean Greer (The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells)
Ali Eteraz (Falsipedies & Fibsiennes)
Lydia Popovich (Ladies Love: a comedy showcase)
Megan Prelinger (Inside The Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age)
Yume Kim (sPARKLE + bLINK)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
EVENTS IN 2014
Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014:
Melissa Pritchard (Palermino, The Odditorium)
Cheeming Boey (When I Was a Kid)
Richard Kadrey (Dead Set)
Neelanjana Banerjee (Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry)
Scott Poole (The Poetry Report)
Kate Willett (The Mission Position)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation, Finch)
Lucy Corin (100 Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses)
Marian Szczepanski (Playing Saint Barbara)
Lisa Evans (Youth Speaks)
Crystal Sykes (Whiskeysoaked, SFist)
Anna Seregina (SF Sketchfest, Bruise Cruise)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Cliff Chase (Winkie, The Tooth Fairy)
Rachel Cantor (A Highly Unlikely Scenario)
Melissa Broder (Scarecrone, Meat Heart)
AV Flox (L.A. Times, Village Voice, Blogher)
Guillermo Gomez-Pena (La Pocha Nostra)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
NOTE DIFFERENT DATE, TIME AND VENUE
Janet Mock (Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More)
Ayelet Waldman (Love and Treasure)
Annalee Newitz (Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How to Survive a Mass Extinction)
Marga Gomez (Love Birds)
Marie Brennan (A Natural History of Dragons)
Cost: $10 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Transgender Law Center and the Center for Sex and Culture.
At the Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St., from 7 to 9 PM, doors open at 6 PM.
Eileen Gunn (Questionable Practices)
April Sinclair (Coffee Will Make You Black)
Caitlin Donohue (AHDM4U)
Nona Caspers (Heavier Than Air)
Siouxsie Q (The WhoreCast)
Gina Gold (TMI Storytelling)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Bich Minh Nguyen (Pioneer Girl)
Ariel Gore (The End of Eve, Hip Mama)
David Winter (Safe House)
Juliette Wade (Analog Magazine)
Baruch Porras-Hernandez (Reasons To Stay On The Ground)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
SPECIAL NEBULA AWARDS EVENT!
Nicola Griffith (Hild)
Sofia Samatar (A Stranger In Olondria)
Ken Liu (The Grace of Kings)
Daphne Gottlieb (15 Ways To Stay Alive, Kissing Dead Girls)
Bucky Sinister (Time Bomb Snooze Alarm)
At San Jose Ballroom Salons IV-VI, the San Jose Marriott, Nebula Weekend
Daniel H. Wilson (Robogenesis, Robopocalypse, How to Survive a Robot Uprising)
Mimi Lipson (The Cloud of Unknowing)
Adam Rogers (Proof: The Science of Booze)
Jordan Ellenberg (How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking)
Kendra De Colo (Thieves in the Afterlife: Poems)
Sampson (That Bitch Better Be Funny)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
An Evening of Oversharing About Money
J. Bradford DeLong (The Equitablog, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality)
Carol Queen (Exhibitionism For The Shy)
Farhad Manjoo (The New York Times, True Enough)
Naomi Quinonez (Hummingbird Dream, The Exiled Moon)
Frances Lefkowitz (To Have Not)
Charlie Jane Anders ("Six Months, Three Days")
Plus Guest MC Annalee Newitz (Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Special Guest MC: Josh Kornbluth
Sarah Ladipo Manyika (In Dependence, Women Writing Zimbabwe)
Miriam Gurba (Dahlia Season, Wish You Were Me)
Madison Young (Daddy: A Memoir)
Anne Leonard (Moth and Spark)
Bob Calhoun (Shattering Conventions: Commerce, Cosplay and Conflict on the Expo Floor)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Lenelle Moise (Haiti Glass, Madivinez, Ache What Make)
Robin Sloan (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore)
Annelyse Gelman (Everyone I Love Is A Stranger To Someone)
Edan Lepucki (California)
Cecil Castellucci (Tin Star)
Christina Nichol (Waiting For The Electricity)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jonathan Lethem (Dissident Gardens, Chronic City)
Molly Antopol (The UnAmericans)
Noviolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names)
Natasha Moni (The Cardiologist's Daughter)
Mallory Ortberg (The Toast)
David Gborie (The Business)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
NOTE FOURTH SATURDAY!
Ysabeau S. Wilce (Prophecies, Libels and Dreams, Flora Segunda)
Polly Superstar (Sex Culture Revolutionary: A Memoir)
Jaz Sufi (National Poetry Slam)
Saqib Mausoof (Kala Pul: The Black Bridge)
Joe Loya (The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell)
Aubrey Ferreira (Shadow Bunnies)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Andy Weir (The Martian)
Katie Gilmartin (Blackmail, My Love)
Vanessa Hua (The Atlantic)
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States)
Shelly Oria (New York 1, Tel Aviv 0)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
EVENTS IN 2013
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013:
Jan Richman (Thrill Bent)
Ramez Naam (Nexus)
Caitlin Myer (Hoodoo)
Kirk Hamilton (Kotaku)
Erin Biba (Wired)
Cost: $10 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Transgender Law Center and CSC.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jim Munroe (Therefore Repent, Ghosts With Shit Jobs)
Zubair Ahmed (City of Rivers)
Virgie Tovar (Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love, and Fashion)
Kit Yan (Asians Aloud)
Joshua Mohr (Fight Song, Damascus)
Sean Keane (The Business)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the CSC.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Alexis Madrigal (The Atlantic, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology)
Jai Arun Ravine (and then entwine, Is This January)
Phil Lapsley (Exploding the Phone)
Clarisse Thorn (The S&M Feminist, Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser)
Dan Wells (I Am Not a Serial Killer, Partials)
Oscar Bermeo (To The Break of Dawn)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jenny Davidson (The Magic Circle, The Explosionist)
Arisa White (A Penny Saved, Hurrah's Nest)
Marie Brennan (A Natural History of Dragons)
Luis Jaramillo (The Doctor's Wife)
Molly Weatherfield (Carrie's Story)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Veronica Belmont (Sword and Laser)
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (The End of San Francisco)
Janis Cooke Newman (Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln)
Thaisa Frank (Heidegger's Glasses: A Novel)
Seth Harwood (Jack Wakes Up, Young Junius)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jane Ciabattari (Stealing the Fire)
Annalee Newitz (Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction)
Terry Bisson (Any Day Now, Bears Discover Fire)
Greta Christina (Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain,
Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More)
Hiya Swanhuyser (A Bunch of Stupid Shit That Saved My Life)
Jade Cho (Youth Speaks Bay Area)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
NO JULY EVENT
Because Comic-Con ate our brains
Saturday, August 10, 2013:
Hannu Rajaniemi (The Quantum Prince)
Natalie Serber (Shout Her Lovely Name)
Mike The Boxer (Boxing: The American Martial Art)
Aimee Phan (The Reeducation of Cherry Truong)
Matt Shears (10,000 Wallpapers)
Susan Calvillo (Potential Cadavers)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Tad Williams (Happy Hour in Hell)
Patricia Engel (Vida, It's Not Love, It's Just Paris)
Cecilia Tan (Slow Surrender, The Velderet)
Mary Kay Zuravleff (Man Alive!)
Susan Ee (Angelfall)
Corinna Bain (Kiss:Punch:Poem)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Kim Stanley Robinson (Shaman, 2312)
Tom Barbash (Stay Up With Me)
Kim Wong Keltner (Tiger Babies Strike Back)
Douglas Lain (Billy Moon)
Mollena Williams (Ultimate Guide to Kinky Sex)
Tatyana Brown (The Lit Slam)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Austin Grossman (You, Soon I Will Be Invincible)
Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant (Parasite)
Julie Ann Long (It Happened One Midnight)
C.W. Gortner (The Tudor Conspiracy)
Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Saints & Boxers)
Laurie Penny (Cybersexism)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Anita Amirrezvani (Equal of the Sun, Blood of Flowers)
Lauren Kate (Teardrop, Fallen)
Adam Mansbach (The Dead Run)
Adam Novy (The Avian Gospels)
Caitlin Gill (The Business)
Cost: $5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Events In 2012:
Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012:An Evening of Uncomfortable Sex Talk
Guest MC: Mary Van Note (SF Sketchfest)
Justin Chin (Harmless Medicine, Bite)
Thomas Roche (The Panama Laugh)
Sarah Fran Wisby (Viva Loss)
Chelsea Martin (Everything Was Fine Until Whatever)
Diana Turken (Bang Out)
Charlie Jane Anders
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Maureen McHugh (After The Apocalypse)
Broke-Ass Stuart (Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in SF)
Vanessa L. Pinto (Fleur de Lis SF)
Keely Hyslop (Things I Say to Pirates On Nights When I Miss You)
Ayize Jama-Everett (The Liminal People)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
M.K. Hobson (Native Star, The Hidden Goddess)
Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs)
Skip Horack (The Eden Hunter)
Benjamin Bac Sierra (Barrio Bushido)
Kirsten Imani Kasai (Tattoo)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Amber Benson (Serpent's Storm, Ghosts of Albion)
Glen David Gold (Carter Beats the Devil)
Malinda Lo (Ash, Huntress, Adaptation)
Rachel Kramer Bussel (Curvy Girls)
Sarah Kuhn (One Con Glory)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Barry Gifford (Sad Stories for the Death of Kings)
Greg Rucka (Alpha, Queen and Country, Walking Dead)
Terry Johnson (How to Defeat Your Own Clone)
Elena Rose (Girl Talk)
Liz Henry (Unruly Islands, Mother Frankenstein)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture and Modern Times Books.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Anthony Swofford (Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails)
Vanessa Veselka (Zazen)
Geeta Dayal (Wired)
Raj Patel (The Value of Nothing)
David Moles (Finisterra, All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Saturday, August 11, 2012:
Jane McGonigal (Reality is Broken)
Rachel Swirsky (Through the Drowsy Dark)
Simon Sheppard (Homosex, Sodomy!, The Dirty Boys Club)
Saqib Mausoof (The Godown)
Javier Zamora (Nine Immigrant Years)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
E. Lily Yu (The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees)
Mariko Tamaki (True Lies: The Book of Bad Advice)
Steven Martin (Opium Fiend)
Mike Drucker (The Onion, Saturday Night Live)
Cassie Alexander (Nightshifted)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Note: One Week Late due to Litquake!
Nick Bilton (New York Times)
Janet Hardy (Girlfags, The Ethical Slut)
Ruben B. Martinez (The New Americans, Crossing Over)
Carol Quinn (Follow My Lead)
Kevin O'Shea (SF Sketch Fest, Purple Onion)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Shawna Yang Ryan (Water Ghosts)
Randy Alfred (Mad Science, Wired's This Day in Tech)
Mollena Williams (69 Stories, Playing Well With Others)
Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed Magazine)
Caitlin Gill (The Business)
Hillary Johnson (Shooting Stars, Physical Culture)
Cost: $5 to $10, sliding scale, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Amy Tan (The Valley of Amazement, The Joy Luck Club)
Nalo Hopkinson (Blackheart Man, Midnight Robber)
Jason Roberts (A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler)
Michael Krasny (KQED's Forum, Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest)
Emanuel Xavier (Americano- Growing Up Gay and Latino in the USA)
Ned Rozell (Alaska Science Forum, Finding Mars)
Cost: $10 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Transgender Law Center and CSC.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Events In 2011:
Saturday, January 8, 2011:
Jane Wiedlin (Lady Robotika, Fur)
Ethan Watters (Crazy Like Us, Urban Tribes)
Jesus Angel Garcia (badbadbad)
Arisa White (Post Pardon, Disposition for Shininess)
Blake Charlton (Spellwright)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
NOTE: THIRD SATURDAY INSTEAD!
Hanne Blank (Virgin: The Untouched History)
Trinie Dalton (Wide Eyed, Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is)
Jason Morris (Spirits and Anchors)
Ernest Callenbach (Ecotopia)
Alex Koll (SF Sketchfest)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
NOTE: THIRD SATURDAY INSTEAD!
Chris Baty (creator of National Novel-Writing Month)
Jiz Lee (Crash Pad)
Deborah Santana (Space Between The Stars)
Charles Kruger (Storming Bohemia)
Melissa Stein (Rough Honey)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW!
Rick Moody (Four Fingers Of Death)
Maxine Hong Kingston (I Love A Broad Margin To My Life)
Monica Youn (Ignatz, Barter)
Sean McLain Brown, Scott Morrison, Joanne Palamountain,
Julie Thi Underhill and Lee Swenson (Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace)
Regina Lynn (Wired Magazine)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Adam Haslett (Union Atlantic, You Are Not A Stranger Here)
Catherynne M. Valente (Deathless, The Habitation of the Blessed)
Janice Shapiro (Bummer and Other Stories)
Rick Barot (Want, The Darker Fall: Poems)
Kimberly Chun (The Bold Italic, SF Bay Guardian)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Javier Grillo-Marxuach (The Middleman, LOST)
Daphne Gottlieb (15 Ways To Stay Alive)
K.M. Ruiz (Mind Storm)
Nick Krieger (Nina Here Nor There)
Kevin Camia (The Punch Line)
All proceeds benefit Indy Arts & Media and the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Charles Yu (How To Survive In A Science Fictional Universe)
Jesse Ball (The Curfew)
Lynn Peril (Swimming in the Steno Pool)
Anna North (America Pacifica)
Bill Brent (Best Bisexual Erotica)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
NOTE: FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH
Ted Chiang (The Lifecycle of Software Objects)
Melissa Febos (Whip Smart)
Edie Meidav (Lola California)
Lee Konstantinou (Pop Apocalypse)
Dinah Sanders (Discardia)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Charlie Haas (The Enthusiast)
Justin Torres (We The Animals)
Heather Gold (I Like An Egg, But I Identify as a Cookie)
Chiwan Choi (The Flood)
Jen Sullivan Brych (Killing My Lobster)
Tom Coates (PlasticBag.org)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Rebecca Solnit (Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas)
Tomas Moniz (Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Parenting)
Jillian Lauren (Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Pretty)
Suzi (Geek Porn Girl blog)
Cameryn Moore (Phone Whore)
Naomi Quinonez (The Smoking Mirror)
All proceeds benefit Seven Teepees.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Cecil Castellucci (First Day on Earth, Boy Proof)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashina (Consensual Genocide)
Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Feministing, Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life)
Alison Moon (Lunatic Fringe)
Alvin Orloff (Why Aren't You Smiling?)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Sean Baby (Cracked.com, MTV)
Gail Carriger (Heartless, Blameless, Soulless)
Ellen Sussman (French Lessons, On A Night Like This)
Diana Salier (Wikipedia Says This Will Pass)
Mike Jung (Geeks, Girls and Secret Identities)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Events In 2010:
Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010:
Melanie Gideon (The Slippery Year)
Rhiannon Argo (The Creamsickle)
Raina Bird (Cherry Bleeds)
Tissa Hami (Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come Of Age)
Maw Shein Win (Comet Magazine, Shampoo)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Vikram Chandra (Sacred Games)
Cherie Priest (Boneshaker)
James Rollins (The Doomsday Key)
Andrew Porter (The Theory Of Light And Matter)
Derek Powazek (Fray Magazine)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Mary Gaitskill (Don't Cry)
Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight, Pain Killers)
Alli Warren (Schema)
Dylan Landis (Normal People Don't Live Like This)
Michael Shea (The Extra, Copping Squid And Other Tales)
With guest host Beth Lisick (Helping Me Help Myself)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Pia Z. Ehrhardt (Famous Fathers & Other Stories)
Diane Lefer (California Transit)
Dan Lichtenberg (The Ancient Book Of Hip)
Tessie Chua (The Punchline, The Comedy Store)
Michelle Gagnon (The Gate Keeper, Boneyard)
Xandra Ibarra (La Chica Boom)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Molly Gloss (Wild Life, The Hearts Of Horses)
Karen Tei Yamashita (Circle K Cycles)
Nic Alea (DOPE Magazine)
Shazam (Random Rim Jobs)
Loren Kraut (OCD and ADD Comedy: An Exotic/Neurotic Show)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Tobias Wolff (Our Story Begins, The Barracks Thief)
Taylor Mali (What Learning Leaves, Icarus Airlines)
Lev Grossman (The Magicians)
Andrew Lam (Perfume Dreams, East Eats West)
Corrina Bain (Ugly Poems For Ugly People)
Bill Carter (Fools Rush In, Red Summer)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
No July Writers With Drinks!
Because Comic Con will be kicking our ass. Saturday, August 14, 2010:
Alice Sola Kim (Asimov's Science Fiction)
Justine Sharrock (Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things)
Monica Nolan (Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher)
Janine Brito (Winner, San Francisco Women's Comedy Competition)
Oscar Bermeo (To The Break Of Dawn: Poems)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Strange Horizons 10th Anniversary Party!
Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, The Wheel Of Time)
Bonnie Burton (StarWars.com, Girls Against Girls)
Kirsten Imani Kasai (Ice Song)
Shailja Patel (Migritude, Dreaming In Gujurati)
Brian Malow (Science Comedian, Time.Com)
All proceeds benefit Strange Horizons.com.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Marcia Clark (Guilt By Association, Without A Doubt)
Jamie Freveletti (Running From The Devil, Running In The Dark)
Ken Scholes (Antiphon, Canticle, Lamentation)
Stephen O'Connor (Here Comes Another Lesson)
Kirya Traber (Black Chick)
Daniel Allan Cox (Krakow Melt, Shuck)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Debbie Stoller (Stitch 'n' Bitch, BUST Magazine)
Richard Kadrey (Sandman Slim, Kill The Dead)
Larry-Bob Roberts (The International Homosexual Conspiracy)
Deb Campo (Funniest Mom in America finalist)
Indigo Moor (Tap-Root)
Angie Chau (Quiet as They Come)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Kirk Read (How I Learned To Snap, This Is The Thing)
Thea Hillman (For Lack of a Better Word)
Cara Black (Murder in the Palais Royal)
Mir Tamim Ansary (Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes)
With Guest Host Daphne Gottlieb (Kissing Dead Girls!)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Events In 2009:
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009:
Ann Packer (The Dive From Clausen's Pier, Songs Without Words)
Yosefa Raz (ZYZZYVA, Glimmer Train)
Lan Tran (How To Unravel Your Family)
Lisa Katayama (Urazawa)
Scott Sigler (Contagious)
Steven Schwartz (69, Best Bisexual Erotica 2)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Oh no, the second Saturday falls on Valentine's Day again!
Ann Cummins (Red Ant House, Yellowcake)
Laurie Glover (Terrain, Nimrod International Journal)
Anna Furtado (The Heart's Desire, The Heart's Longing)
Lorelei Lee (Sex Workers' Art Show)
Shanthi Sekaran (The Prayer Room)
Plus Special Guest MC: Josh Kornbluth!
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Sarah Houghteling (Pictures At An Exhibition)
M.K. Chavez (Acker's Dangerous Daughters, Visitation)
Rachel McDowell (Subterranean Comedy)
S.G. Browne (Breathers: A Zombie's Lament)
Lauren Wheeler (Lodestar Quarterly)
Caitlin Gill (Ladies Room Comedy Night)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness)
Stacie Boschma (Happy Rainbow Poems from the Unicorn Petting Zoo)
Laurie R. King (Touchstone, The Art Of Detection)
Sean Stewart (Cathy's Key, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous)
Regina Lynn (SexRev 2.0, Sexier Sex)
Minal Hajratwala (Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages To Five Continents)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Erika Lopez (Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat)
Achy Obejas (Days Of Awe, We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?)
Daniel Marcus (Binding Energy, Burn Rate)
Sean Keane (Habitat For Humanity Comedy Show)
Richard Loranger (Poems For Teeth)
Brian Castro (Birds Of Passage, Stepper)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Luis Alberto Urrea (The Hummingbird's Daughter, The Fever Of Being)
Ron MacLean (Why The Long Face?, Blue Winetka Skies)
Rachel McDowell (Paco Romane Event)
Vanessa Norton (Sex For America)
David J. Williams (The Burning Skies)
All proceeds benefit Modern Times Books and the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Derek McCormack (The Haunted Hillbilly, The Show That Smells)
Chelsea Martin (Everything Was Fine Until Whatever)
Hugh Behm Steinberg (Shy Green Fields, Sorcery)
Rudy Rucker (Hylozoic, Mathematicians In Love)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out Of Carolina)
Adam Savage (Mythbusters)
Clint Catalyst (Cottonmouth Kisses)
Mary Miller (Big World)
Steven Barnes (Shadow Valley, In The Night Of The Heat)
With special guest host Beth Lisick!
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Michelle Richmond (No One You Know, The Year Of Fog)
Jeremy Adam Smith (The Daddy Shift)
John Shirley (Black Glass, Bleak History)
Lorna Dee Cervantes (From The Cables Of Genocide: Poems Of Love And Hunger)
Christy Chan (Wash'n'Fold)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Anthony Swofford (Jarhead)
Roz Savage (Rowing The Atlantic)
Doug Dorst (Alive In Necropolis)
Linda Watanabe McFerrin (The Impossibility Of Redemption Is Something We Hadn't Figured On)
Joe Loya (The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell)
Irina Slutsky (Geek Entertainment TV)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Javier Grillo-Marxuach (The Middleman TV series)
Mary Robinette Kowal (Scenting The Dark And Other Stories)
Kat Richardson (Greywalker)
Naomi Quinonez (Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry)
S. Bear Bergman (Butch Is A Noun)
All proceeds benefit EL/LA Program Para Trans Latinas.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Dan Fante (86d, Short Dog, Mooch)
Joshua Mohr (Some Things That Meant The World To Me)
Mark Coggins (The Big Wake-Up)
Seanan McGuire (Rosemary And Rue)
Mollena Williams (Perverted Negress)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Events in 2008:
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008:
Aimee Bender (Girl In The Flammable Skirt)
Ariel Gore (How To Become A Famous Writer Before You're Dead)
Wagner James Au (New World Notes)
Edwin Li (Rooftop Comedy)
Izzy Oneiric (Opium Magazine)
Simone Corday (9 1/2 Years Behind The Green Door)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Lolly Winston (Good Grief, Happiness Sold Separately)
Jennifer Finney Boylan (She's Not There, I'm Looking Through You)
Tung-Hui Hu (Mine)
Jamais Cascio (Open The Future)
Jim Shepard (Like You'd Understand, Anyway)
Jaime Cortez (Sexile)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Fan Wu (February Flowers)
Justin Courter (Skunk)
Paul Festa (Best Sex Writing 2008, Nerve.com)
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (Words In Your Face, Dear Future Boyfriend)
Blake C. Aarens (Herotica 5)
Ryan McKee (Comedy Studio)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Karen Joy Fowler (Wit's End, The Jane Austen Book Club)
Juvenal Acosta (The Tattoo Hunter)
Elliot Fintushel (Breakfast With The Ones You Love)
Peter Hamilton (The Void Trilogy, the Night's Dawn Trilogy)
Fran Varian (tsuami, Lodestar Quarterly)
Dayvid Figler (Grope, NPR's All Things Considered)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Adam Mansbach (Angry Black White Boy, The End of the Jews)
April Sinclair (Coffee Will Make You Black)
Alejandro Murguia (This War Called Love)
Marc Acito (Attack of the Theater People)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Armistead Maupin (Tales Of The City)
Sheerly Avni (Salon.com)
Naomi Hirahara (Snakeskin Shamisen, Los Angeles Noir)
Comedian Lisa Myers (Vortex Betty.com)
Gina DeVries (Baby Remember My Name)
Ruben Alexander Barron (American Poet)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Ishmael Reed (Japanese By Spring, From Totems To Hip Hop)
Mistress Morgana (Sex For America)
Frances Lefkowitz (How To Have Not)
Susan Marie Browne (Buddha's Dogs)
Ray Molina (Oddly Americana comedy show)
Marta Randall (The Sword Of Winter)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008:
Josh Kornbluth (Red Diaper Baby)
Peter Orner (The Second Coming Of Mavala Shikongo)
Farhad Manjoo (Slate, True Enough: Learning To Live In A Post-Fact Society)
Jeff Carlson (Plague War)
Amber Hatfield
Zuleikha Mahmoud (Riot Grrls!)
All proceeds benefit the No On 8 Campaign
(Save Marriage For Everybody)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008:
Writers In Drag: writers read works they've written outside their normal genres!
Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible) reads fantasy
Stephen Elliott (Happy Baby) reads something TBA
Annalee Newitz (io9.com) reads science fiction
Michelle Tea (Rose Of No Man's Land) reads cyberpunk
Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl In The Ring) reads something TBA
Jaime Cortez (Sexile) reads something TBA
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jay Lake (Mainspring, Escapement)
Camille T. Dungy (Author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison)
Cat Rambo (The Surgeons Tale And Other Stories)
Steve Ferris (The Comedy Store)
Damon Brown (Porn And Pong)
Sarah Fran Wisby (Viva Loss)
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Events in 2007:
Saturday Jan 20, 2007:Writers In Drag: writers read works they've written outside their normal genres!
Michelle Tea (Rose of No Man's Land) reads cyberpunk
Kim Stanley Robinson (Red Mars) reads poetry
Andrew Sean Greer (Confessions of Max Tivoli) does something TBA
Michael Blumlein (XY) reads nature writing
Justin Chin (Gutted) does erotica or horror
Ed Champion (Edrants.com) does literary fiction
At The Rickshaw Stop -- NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION AND START TIME 155 Fell St. @ Van Ness,
San Francisco CA, from 7 PM to 9 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM. $5 to $7 sliding scale.
Frank Portman (King Dork)
Eric Spitznagel (Fast Forward: Confessions Of A Porn Scriptwriter)
Marta Acosta (Happy Hour At Casa Dracula)
Ahn-Hoa Thi Nguyen (Vietnamese Artists Collective)
Angie Krass (Sex, Biscuits, Jesus & Me)
Joan Price (Better Than I Ever Expected)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
T. Cooper (Lipshitz Six, Or Two Angry Blondes)
Rob Brezsny (Free Will Astrology, Pronoia)
Polly Frost (Deep Inside, Sex Scenes)
Marga Gomez (Los Big Names, The 12 Days of Cochina)
Diana Paxson (The Chronicles of Westria)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Pagan Kennedy (The Exes, The First Man-Made Man)
Eileen Gunn (Stable Strategies and Others)
Nicole Gluckstern (SF Bay Guardian)
Shanique Scott (Comedy Club, The Punchline)
Robin Coste Lewis (Shake It But Don't Break It)
Renee Rivera (Best Lesbian Erotica 2006)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jami Attenberg (Instant Love)
Stephanie Paul (The Comedy Store)
Liz Maverick (Wired, Shards of Crimson)
Jaime Cortez (Sexile/Sexilo)
Geoffrey Pullum (Language Log, Far From The Madding Gerund)
D. Blair (Black Rennaissance Noir, Burying The Evidence)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Judy Budnitz (Nice Big American Baby)
Sesshu Foster (Atomik Aztex)
Anthony McCann (Moongarden)
Clifford Chase (Winkie)
Kyle Machulis aka qDot (Slashdong.org)
Shanique Scott (QComedy, Prisons)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Special Magazine Tribute!
Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone Magazine)
Lynn Peril (Mystery Date, College Girls)
Deborah Ross (Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine)
Audacia Ray ($pread Magazine, Naked On The Internet)
Jimmy Chen (McSweeney's)
Kaya Oakes (Kitchen Sink, Telegraph)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Robert Mailer Anderson (Boonville)
Sheng Wang (826 Valencia Comedy Benefit)
Darieck Scott (Hex: A Novel of Love Spells)
Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
Dom Brassey (Fourteen Hills)
Sherilyn Connelly (Queer Open Mic co-host)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Truong Tran (Dust and Conscience, Placing The Accents)
Jennifer Solow (The Booster)
David Hawkins (Qcomedy)
Melissa Gira (Sexerati)
Guillermo Gomez-Pena (Ethno-Techno)
Josh Wolf (Josh Wolf For Mayor)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Nomy Lamm (Tricrotic, The Finger)
Matthew Jacobs (Doctor Who, Indiana Jones)
Rachelle Chase (Sex Lounge)
David West (Pocket Myths: Odyssey)
Tim Maleeny (Stealing The Dragon)
Katayoon Zandvakili (The Arrest)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Kage Baker (The Sons of Heaven)
Jessy Randall (A Day In Boyland)
Inga Muscio (Cunt, Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil)
James Calder (In A Family Way, Knockout Mouse)
Ellery Urquhart (Rooster T. Feathers Comedy Competition)
Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Feministing, Racewire)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jack Hirschman (The Arcanes)
Geoff Manaugh (BldgBlog, Dwell)
Lisa Palac (The Edge Of The Bed)
Domenic Stansberry (Chasing The Dragon)
Tom Barbash (The Last Good Chance, On Top Of The World)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Events in 2006:
Saturday January 14, 2006:
Katia Noyes (Crashing America)
Shailja Patel (Migritude)
Lynnee Breedlove (One Freak Show)
George Kelly (Negrophile.com)
Shannon Cummings (Best Lesbian Erotica 2005)
Tim Pratt (The Strange Adventures of Ranger Girl)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Patty Lin (Desperate Housewives, ZYZZYVA)
Susie Bright (Best American Erotica 2006)
Brent Weinbach (Punchline Comedy Club)
Danny O'Brien (ntk.net, London Sunday Times)
J*me and Caroline Harvey (Cantab Slam Team)
Kyra Davis (Sex, Murder and a Double Latte)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Alan Kaufman (Jew Boy, Matches: A Novel)
Marianna Cherry (Best of the Best Women's Erotica, 2001 Pushcart Prize)
Camille Minichino (The Carbon Murder, The Nitrogen Murder)
Ali Wong (Ali Wong-ka And the Comic Factory)
Mark Morford (San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)
Ryan Harty (Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona)
Kate Braverman (Lithium for Medea)
W. Kamau Bell (Comedy Central)
Tina D'Elia (Best Lesbian Erotica 04, Groucho)
Chris Kraus (Torpor, Video Green)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Ayelet Waldman (Daughter's Keeper)
Keith Knight (The K Chronicles)
Cindy Emch ($3 Bill Queer Open Mic)
John Lescroart (The Hunt Club, The Motive)
Bianca James (Best American Erotica 2006)
Sheng Wang (Hustle and Pho, 50 Mason Comedy Club)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Rabih Alameddine (I, The Divine, Koolaids)
Hillary Carlip (Queen of the Oddballs)
Julie Gamberg (The Museum of Natural History)
Lori Ann White (Polyphony, Analog, Asimov's)
Lisa Montanarelli (Vegan Lesbian Boarding School Hookers In Bondage)
Samantha Chanse (SF Comedy Club)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Writers read works they've written outside their usual genre.
Annalee Newitz (Techsploitation) reads Western fiction
Tamim Ansary (West of Kabul, East of New York) reads speculative fiction
Jenny Traig (Devil In The Details) reads teen mystery
Carol Queen (Leather Daddy & the Femme) reads non-sexual memoir
John Marr (Murder Can Be Fun) reads pulp fiction
Alana Devich (Comics Gone Wild) reads literary fiction
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Daisy Zamora (The Violent Foam)
Noria Jablonski (Human Oddities)
Sage Vivant (Custom Erotica Source)
Julia Jackson (Sistahs, RooftopComedy)
Gerard Jones (Men Of Tomorrow
Ellen Klages (Time Gypsy)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Daniel Alarcon (War By Candlelight)
Mark Budz (Idolon, Crache, Clade)
Mako Matsuda (Lodestar Quarterly)
Sparky (Best Lesbian Erotica 2005, Best of Best Lesbian Erotica)
Mary Van Note (The Comedy Station)
Tom Patchell and Christopher Upham (Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Fantasy from Lisa Goldstein (The Alchemist's Door)
Lit from Michelle Orange (McSweeney's, The Sicily Papers)
Journalism from Tim Redmond (The SF Bay Guardian)
Humor from Cynthia Heimel (Get Your Tongue Out Of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye)
Poetry from Alena Hairston (The Logan Topographies)
Comedy from Bucky Sinister (Whiskey and Robots)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Lit from KE Silva (A Simple Distance)
SF/F/Mystery from Madeleine Robins (Petty Treason, Point Of Honour)
Erotica from Spring Opara (Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2005)
Poetry from Steve Arntson (Cuts From The Barbershop)
Comedy from Dana Cory (Q Comedy)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Lolly Winston (Good Grief, Happiness Sold Separately)
Stephen Elliott (My Girlfriend Comes Into The City And Beats Me Up)
Indigo Moor (Tap-Root: Poems By Indigo Moor)
Laura Moriarty (Ultravioleta)
Grace Davis (State of Grace, SFGate)
Kevin Munroe (SF Comedy Club)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Events in 2005:
Saturday January 8, 2005:
Robin Burcell (Cold Case, Deadly Legacy)
Laurie Fox (The Lost Girls)
Bridget Schwartz (Q Comedy)
Sholeh Wolpe (The Scar Saloon)
Greta Christina (Paying For It, Bending: An Erotic Novella)
Sandip Roy (Host of weekly "Upfront" program on KALW)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Mary Roach (Stiff)
Chris Garcia (FanboyPlanet.com)
Juliette Torrez (Madness And Retribution)
Michael Blumlein (XY)
horehound stillpoint (I Do, I Don't)
Nick Leonard (Q Comedy)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Greg Dicum (Harper's Magazine, Window Seat)
Jess Ardnt (On Our Backs, Bottoms Up)
Susan Stinson (Venus of Chalk)
Ray Ferrer aka Coco Lopez (Q Comedy)
Lisa Ortiz (Poesy, Split Verse)
Jennifer de Guzman (Strange Horizons)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Andrew Sean Greer (Confessions of Max Tivoli)
Charlie Anders (Choir Boy)
Tennessee Jones (Deliver Me From Nowhere)
Carolyn Connelly (Brooklyn Diary)
Leticia Hernandez-Linares (Razor Edges of My Tongue)
Betsy Salkind (Jay Leno Show, Roseanne writer)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Violet Blue (Taboo: Forbidden Fantasies for Couples)
Alicia Erian (Towelhead)
Tad Williams (Shadowmarch, The War of the Flowers)
RU Sirius (Mondo 2000, Counter Culture Through The Ages)
Liz Henry (Cuts From The Barbershop, Slut Utopia)
Bill Santiago (Comedy Central)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Diane DiPrima (Loba, Recollections of My Life As A Woman)
Tim Farrington (The Monk Downstairs, Lizzie's War)
Carter Scholz (Radiance)
Erin Souza (QComedy)
Michael Chorost (Rebuilt)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Judy Grahn (A Woman Is Talking To Death)
Susie Bright (Best American Erotica, Three Kinds of Asking For It)
Andre The Urban Hermitt (The Flow Chronicles)
Lisa Geduldig (Funny Girls, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy)
Jorge Argueta (La Puerta Del Diablo, A Movie In My Pillow)
Renay Jackson (Oaktown Devil, Shakey's Loose)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Jewelle Gomez (Gilda Stories, Oral Tradition)
Marci Blackman (Po Man's Child)
Nadia Gordon (Sharpshooter, Death By The Glass)
Blake Aarens (Herotica, Best American Erotica)
Chris Carlsson (Processed World, The Political Edge)
Nico Santos (Q Comedy)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Note: Third Saturday of September!
Tina D'Elia (Groucho, Forgotten Angel)
Andrew Boyd (Billionaires For Bush, PoMo To Go)
DJ Berkley (Comedy troupe)
Suzanne Kleid (Pindeldyboz, other magazine)
David Corbett (The Devil's Redhead, Done For A Dime)
Susan St. Aubin (Best Women's Erotica, Herotica)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Note: Rescheduled to Friday!
Will Franken (A Common Household Accident)
Devin Grayson (Batman: No Man's Land)
Dossie Easton (The Ethical Slut)
Storm Florez (The Pussyboy Chronicles)
Alvin Orloff (Gutter Boys, I Married An Earthling)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Eve Pell (We Used To Own The Bronx, The Nation)
Hambone Johnson (United Genders)
Jenny Traig (Devil In The Details, McSweeneys.net)
Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)
Joel Barraquiel Tan (Monster, Inside Him)
Ronn Vigh (Stood Up SF, Comic-Kazi)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club)
Terry Bisson (Bears Discover Fire)
Killing My Lobster (Nothing Is Original)
Beth Lisick (Everybody Into The Pool)
Barbara Jane Reyes (Poeta en San Francisco)
FetishDiva Midori (Wild Side Sex)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
Events in 2004:
January 10, 2004:
Prof. Tricia Rose (Longing To Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy)
Paul Reidinger (The City Kid, the San Francisco Bay Guardian)
Julia Serano (Gender Enders, Bite Size)
Ronn Vigh (Stood Up, Comic-Kazi)
Nadyalec (Hot Off The Net, Generation Q)
Keckler (Television Without Pity)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Roxxie Rosen (Girljock, Dagger)
Stephanie Rosenbaum (The Anti-Bride Guide)
Yayne Abeba
Tim'm T. West (Red Dirt, Deep Dickollective)
Charlie Anders (other magazine, ZYZZYVA)
Pam Rosenthal (The Bookseller's Daughter)
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Writers perform works outside their normal genres!
Michelle Tea (The Beautiful) reads science fiction
Kirk Read (How I Learned To Snap) reads fiction
Juba Kalamka (Deep Dickollective) does theatre
Trina Robbins (Tender Murderers) reads fantasy
John Shirley (Crawlers) reads religious fiction
Simon Sheppard (Kinkorama) reads a children's story
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
April 10, 2004:
Kirk Read (How I Learned To Snap) reads fiction
Juba Kalamka (Deep Dickollective) does theatre
Trina Robbins (Tender Murderers) reads fantasy
John Shirley (Crawlers) reads religious fiction
Simon Sheppard (Kinkorama) reads a children's story
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM