When: Saturday, June 14, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS! Who: Daniel H. Wilson, Adam Rogers,
Jordan Ellenberg, Mimi Lipson and Kendra DeColo! How much: $5 to $10,
all proceeds benefit the CSC Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.,
San Francisco
About the readers/performers:
Daniel H.
Wilson's latest novel is Robogenesis. He's also the author of the New
York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and seven other books, including
How to Survive a Robot Uprising, A Boy and His Bot, and Amped. In 2008,
he hosted The Works on the History Channel. He earned a PhD in Robotics
from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. His novel Robopocalypse was
purchased by DreamWorks and is currently being adapted for film by
Steven Spielberg.
Adam Rogers is the author of Proof: The
Science of Booze. He's the articles editor at Wired, where his feature
story “The Angels’ Share” won the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism
Award. Before coming to Wired, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow
at MIT and a writer covering science and technology for Newsweek.
Jordan Ellenberg's new book is How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of
Mathematical Thinking. Ellenberg has held an NSF-CAREER grant and an
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and in 2013 he was named one of the
inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. His
work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, Wired, The Believer, and the Boston Globe, and he is
the author of the “Do the Math” column in Slate. His Wired feature story
on compressed sensing appeared in the Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
anthology.
Mimi Lipson's first book the Cloud of Unknowing.
Her stories have appeared in BOMB, Harvard Review, Joyland, Witness,
Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.
Kendra DeColo is the author of
Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef
Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review, The Collagist,
CALYX, Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an
Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, a
work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and
residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the
Millay Colony. The founding poetry editor of Nashville Review and a Book
Review Editor at Muzzle Magazine, she lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks has won numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers,
and has been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead
Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word "variety show" mixes
genres to raise money for local 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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