Reminder: RADAR Reading Series at Main Library @ Wed Jan 11 6pm - 7:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » RADAR Reading Series at Main Library The RADAR Reading Series Emerging + Underground + Legendary Writers + Artists Free. Wednesday, January 11th San Francisco Public Library BILL BASQUIN is a multi-media artist. Bill's films have screened at Sundance, Documenta, Madcat, and SLOW Food on Film. He was able to combine his passions for making compost and cycling resources in 2009 while he was the Artist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Dump. ISHMAEL REED is one of today's pre-eminent African American literary figures. He began writing his own jazz column for Empire State, a weekly African American newspaper in Buffalo, NY, where he grew up in working-class neighborhoods. Since the publication of his first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, in 1967, Reed has thus far produced seven novels, four books of poetry, two collections of essays, numerous reviews and critical articles, and has edited two major anthologies. His consistent objective has been the satirizing of American political, religious and literary repression. TENNESSE REED is the author of five poetry collections and a memoir. Ms. Reed has read around the Continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, England, the Netherlands, Germany and Japan. She is currently working on a novel and her sixth poetry collection, New and Selected Poetry 1982-2010, will be published by World Parade this fall. She has received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.F.A from Mills College. Ms. Reed is the managing editor of Konch Magazine and the secretary of PEN Oakland. Born and raised in East L.A., ALICE BAG founded the infamous all-girl punk band The Bags in 1976 - one of the first and most popular bands to explode on the scene. Featured in the Penelope Spheeris film The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization, The Bags were fast, aggressive and confrontational. Since the 80s she has joined the pop-punk band Cholita! with Vaginal Davis; formed the acoustic group Las Tres, which spun off to the project Goddess 13, the subject of a PBS documentary; and the feminist punk band Stay at Home Bomb. She is the author of the memoir Violence Girl. JOSHUA MOHR is the author of the novels "Termite Parade," an Editors' Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List, and "Some Things that Meant the World to Me," one of O Magazine's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a SF Chronicle best-seller. His most recent novel is "Damascus" about which the New York Times said: "The author's jaunty voice [is] Beat-poet cool...Mohr nails the atmosphere of a San Francisco still breathing in the smoke that lingers from the days of Jim Jones and Dan White, a time when passionate ideologies and personal dysfunction intermingled and combusted." Mohr teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco and has published numerous short stories and essays in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, 7×7, the Bay Guardian, ZYZZYVA, The Rumpus, among many others. Please visit him at joshuamohr.net. Hosted with cookies by Michelle Tea Q+A to follow reading. Ask a Q, get a cookie. Books will be for sale following the event. Wednesday, January 11th San Francisco Public Library / Main Branch Latino Reading Room / Basement Level 6pm / Free When Wed Jan 11 6pm – 7:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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