Reminder: Free: Radar Reading at the Public Library @ Tue Nov 2 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

more details » Free: Radar Reading at the Public Library the RADAR reading series a showcase of underground + emerging writers + artists Tuesday, November 2nd 2010 NOVELLA CARPENTER is a journalist, small-scale farmer, and the author of the national best-selling Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer. Her writing has appeared in Food & Wine, Mother Jones, and Sunset magazines, in addition to salon.com, saveur.com, and sfgate.com. She lives in Oakland, CA with her partner Bill, two goats, 5 chickens, 20,000 bees, 10 rabbits, and one half-feral cat named Cuzzin. Novella is at work on a new book about hunter gatherers, her father, and a primitive skills specialist named, aptly, Tamara Wilder. GORDON EDGAR loves cheese and worker-owned co-ops, and has been combining both of these infatuations as a cheesemonger at Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in San Francisco for over 16 years. Edgar has been a judge at cheese competitions, a board member for the California Artisan Cheese Guild, and has had a blog since 2002, which can be found at www.gordonzola.net. Surrounded by his vast and decaying collection of zines and obscure punk 7-inches, he lives in San Francisco with his girlfriend and their imaginary white miniature schnauzer. His political cheese memoir, Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge was published in early 2010. If you want a book link: http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/cheesemonger CHELSEA RAE KLEIN is a documentary and fine art photographer with a degree in Photojournalism. Her current body of photography work explores gender and the social construction of emotions and norms by juxtaposing intimate female and male experiences. She is the founder of Through the Lens Project, a developing non-profit program that offers free and subsidized photography, writing, and digital media workshops, publication and exhibition opportunities to queer and low income youth, people with developmental and physical differences, and elders. She is also the founder, editor and publisher of Descry Magazine, a biannual visual arts publication developed to support the visibility of emerging artists, particularly women, queers, and people of color. Chelsea lives and works in San Francisco and believes in a holistic and integrated approach to community, self-empowerment, and the arts. L.E. LEONE lives with chickens in the coastal redwoods north of San Francisco, and writes the Cheap Eats column for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She is the author of the short story collection The Meaning of Lunch and the novel Big Bend. Hosted by Michelle Tea, with homemade ice cream sandwiches by Erin Singer. Q+A to follow reading - ask a question, get an ice cream sandwich. Tuesday, November 2nd 2010 San Francisco Public Library / Main Branch Latino Reading Room / Basement Level 6:00pm / Free RADAR's events are supported by National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, The Horizons Foundation, Friends of the Public Library, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts and the San Francisco Foundation. Thank you for supporting queer literature! When Tue Nov 2 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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