Hey guys, I just got a new nose via mail order, and I'm going to be wearing it in public for the first time on Saturday. Come be the first to appreciate my newfound nasal dexterity at Writers With Drinks...



Writers With Drinks has been adulterating your literature for over six years. This month, WWD features:



* Tom Barbash, author of The Last Good Chance and On Top of the World

* Jack Hirschman, recently Poet Laureate of San Francisco and author of The Arcanes.

* Domenic Stansberry, who writes the North Beach Mystery Series

* Lisa Palac, author of The Edge of The Bed: How Dirty Pictures Changed My Life and editor of Future Sex magazine

* Geoff Manaugh, founding editor of BLDGBLOG

* Reggie Steele, winner of the 2003 Rooster T. Feathers Comedy Competition



When: Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007, 7:30 to 9:30 PM

Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco

How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale

Just a reminder that tomorrow night I'm taking part in Michelle Tea's Radar SALON series, at the Harvey Milk branch of the library at 7 PM. NOTE: not at the main branch!



Also taking part is Beth Lisick, author of Everybody Into The Pool. Beth and I will be fighting like cats and cat-eating giant monsters. I'm not sure what we'll be arguing about yet, but it will get nasty. Beth says there will be leg-wrestling, which I've never even witnessed before. The Radar SALON series is basically Michelle chatting with Beth and me, and then we each read a brief thing. I will read something new and in progress. And you get cookies.



Details: Radar SALON series, hosted by Michelle Tea at the San Francisco Public Library / Eureka Valley - Harvey Milk Branch, 16th Street at Market, Weds. Nov. 28, 7:00pm, Free

I've been turning down pretty much every request to read at people's events lately. It's not because I've run out of shit to read from. Actually, I just started a new job and have been working like a crazy person. The job is awesome, and I'll hope to have an announcement about it soon. But the upshot is you won't see me reading in public much for the next few months. (Writers With Drinks will, of course, still happen.)



But one reading that I agreed to ages ago, and would have wanted to do anyway, is coming up on Wednesday. I'm taking part in Michelle Tea's Radar SALON series at the Harvey Milk branch of the library at 7 PM. Also taking part is Beth Lisick, author of Everybody Into The Pool. Beth and I will be fighting like cats and cat-eating giant monsters. I'm not sure what we'll be arguing about yet, but it will get nasty. Beth says there will be leg-wrestling, which I've never even witnessed before. The Radar SALON series is basically Michelle chatting with Beth and me, and then we each read a brief thing. I will read something new and in progress. And you get cookies.



Details: Radar SALON series, hosted by Michelle Tea at the San Francisco Public Library / Eureka Valley - Harvey Milk Branch, 16th Street at Market, Weds. Nov. 28, 7:00pm, Free

Other Magazine Turns 5! Benefit Show featuring Victor Krummenacher!



The magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts is celebrating its fifth birthday. We're also releasing issue #13, the "Dead Magazines"

issue. To celebrate both things, we're throwing a party, featuring:



- Victor Krummenacher (Camper Van Beethoven)

- Ukeapocalypse (Kelly McCubbin) featuring 5 Cent Coffee

- Hazy Loper

- DJ Joel Schalit

- Art from other magazine on display



Where: CounterPULSE Gallery, 1310 Mission St. @ 9th., San Francisco

When: Sunday, Nov. 18, from 7 PM to 11 PM How much: $7 to $10 sliding, $10 gets you new issue of other magazine. (No-one turned away for lack of funds.

All proceeds benefit other magazine.)



About the "Dead Magazines" issue of other magazine: Other magazine celebrates the great magazines that have passed on. Articles include an inside look at Punk Planet, the original Bitch magazine and several magazine editors tell how DIY publishing ruined their lives.



About other: Other magazine is for people who defy categories. We print everything from genre-busting fiction, journalism, and essays, to cartoons, artwork, and innovative graphic design. Every four months, our writers bring you challenging ideas, wild tales, rebel futurism, global media, pop criticism, and indie idealism.

The reading series that orbits its own head is back again! This time, Writers With Drinks features:



- Kage Baker, author of The Sons Of Heaven and other novels of the Company

- Inga Muscio, author of Cunt and Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil

- Jessy Randall, poet and author of A Day In Boyland

- James Calder, author of Knockout Mouse and other Bill Damen mysteries

- Ellery Urquhart, finalist in Rooster T. Feathers comedy competition

- Samhita Mukhopadhyay, who blogs at Feministing and Colorlines



When: Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007, 7:30 to 9:30 PM

Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, SF

How much: $3 to $5, all proceeds benefit other magazine