Thursday, November 17, 2011

Reminder: Radar Reading Series at Main Library @ Thu Nov 17 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

Radar Reading Series at Main Library

The RADAR Reading Series
A Showcase of Underground + Emerging Writers + Artists

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

DIA FELIX is a writer and filmmaker whose areas of intrigue and expertise include romantic pratfalls, spiritual totality, and celebrity obsession. Her first novel, "Nochita", a surrealistic coming-of-age novel for beach goths, is forthcoming from Sister Spit/City Lights Books.

SLOANE MARTIN is a Libra currently living in San Francisco. She is also an editor of the new online magazine Bright Dumb Things, which is dedicated to publishing interdisciplinary visual art, literature, and academic writing, and is currently seeking submissions for the first issue, "The Form and its Echo." She graduated in 2011 from the Gallatin School at NYU with a degree in "Subjectivity In Narrative," and was granted the Dean's Award to fund research on a novel about a compulsive liar in northern Idaho. She is working on a book about food with Elizabeth Pickens, and a poetry-prose memoir. Her work has been published in Instant City and Baby Remember My Name. Come talk to her if you'd like to be internet Q-list famous. She's good at that.

ELISSA PERRY, — writer, artist, educator, agitator and geek — is of African and Choctaw descent. She has published several short stories, interviews, and other writings in numerous anthologies, journals, and magazines including Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds, I Do/I Don't, Black Silk and others. She has been a finalist in Poets & Writers' "California Voices" competition, a Voices Fellow at the Voices of Our Nations Foundation at the University of San Francisco, and is currently the recipient of an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission for her project Mission Drift. She lives in San Francisco with her best and only girl.

From Portland, Oregon, VANESSA VESELKA, who has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, a student of paleontology, an expatriate, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother. Her work has appeared in Arthur, Bust, Bitch, Maximum Rock 'n' Roll, and elsewhere. her first novel, Zazen, was published this year on Red Lemonade.

Q + A segment to follow readings. Ask a Q, get a homemade cookie from your host, Michelle Tea.

Thursday, November 17th, 2011
San Francisco Public Library / Main Branch - Grove near Market St.
Latino Reading Room / Basement Level
6:00pm Sharp / FREE

When
Thu Nov 17 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time
Calendar
Queer Things
Who
larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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