Date: Saturday, June 9, 2012, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS!
Featuring: Anthony Swofford, Geeta Dayal, Vanessa Veselka and Raj Patel!
Location: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco
Admission: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC.
About the readers/performers:
Anthony Swofford's books include Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A
Memoir, Exit A, and Jarhead. Swofford served in a U.S. Marine Corps
Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the
Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at American River College;
the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa
Writers' Workshop. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Lewis
and Clark College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New
York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, and other
publications. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in
New York.
Geeta Dayal is a staff writer at Wired.com, specializing in culture
reporting. She's also the author of Another Green World, a recent book
on Brian Eno. She is the recent recipient of a major grant from
Creative Capital | The Andy Warhol Foundation in the Arts Writers
Program. She has written over 150 articles and reviews for major
publications, including Frieze, Bookforum, The Wire, The Village
Voice, The New York Times, The International Herald-Tribune, Print,
Wired, Rhizome, and many more. Her essays appear in several
anthologies on music, including The New Grove Dictionary of Music
(Oxford, 2011), Loops (Faber & Faber, 2009), The Resistible Demise of
Michael Jackson (Zer0, 2009), The Pitchfork 500 (Simon & Schuster,
2008) and Marooned (Da Capo, 2007). She has taught several courses as
a lecturer in new media and journalism at the University of California
– Berkeley, Fordham University, and the State University of New York.
Raj Patel's first book was Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for
the World Food System, and his latest, The Value of Nothing, is a New
York Times best-seller. He's currently a visiting scholar at UC
Berkeley's Center for African Studies, an Honorary Research Fellow at
the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
and a fellow at The Institute for Food and Development Policy, also
known as Food First. He is currently an IATP Food and Community
Fellow. He has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to
the US House Financial Services Committee and is an Advisor to the
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. In addition to
numerous scholarly publications, he regularly writes for The Guardian,
and has contributed to the LA Times, NYTimes.com, The San Francisco
Chronicle, The Mail on Sunday, and The Observer.
Vanessa Veselka is the author of Zazen. She 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.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian
readers' poll six years in a row and was named "Best Literary
Drinking" by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead
Maupin's latest Tales of the City novel. The spoken word "variety
show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The
award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction,
fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines
and blogs in a freewheeling format.
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