SATURDAY, MARCH 10th 2007 at 7:30 PM
CHARLIE ANDERS'
WRITERS WITH DRINKS
The Make-Out Room
3225 22nd St.
San Francisco, CA
$3-$5 sliding scale, All
proceeds benefit Other Magazine
DIRECTIONS & MAP for WRITERS WITH
DRINKS
I'm thrilled
to be reading at Charlie Anders' popular series, Writers
with Drinks!
READ MORE ABOUT CHARLIE ANDERS & WRITERS WITH DRINKS
BELOW:
"Literary ringmaster Charlie Anders insists her series
of tavern-based readings is set up so that "no one's
competing," but she herself is used to being up against
stiff competition. "There's a guy doing a striptease on
a unicycle, a guy wrestling a fish and Armistead Maupin
doing a reading," she says incredulously of the options
on any given Saturday night in SF. "Your [event] has to
be better than fish wrestling." It's a tough standard
to live up to, but over the last four years Writers
With Drinks: Spoken Word Varity Show has become the
event that everybody's talking about -- and talking at,
for that matter. Snagging appearances by big- and
small-name poets, comedians and authors, Anders also
strives to keep the audience diverse... According to
Anders: "You can get drunk, take someone home and wake
up unable to remember who you slept with -- but you'll
remember the readings. That's my goal." -- 7x7
Magazine, April 2005
Read about CHOIR BOY, Charlie Anders' novel
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PRAISE FOR CHARLIE ANDERS'
WRITERS WITH DRINKS:
BEST LITERARY DRINKING. Charlie
Anders' "Writers With Drinks" continues on, five years
strong. What's her secret? Variety! ... You're bound to
stay interested if you find yourself listening to revered
children's author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) one
moment and local comedian W. Kamau Bell the next. Throw in
a few cartoonists, sex workers, radio hosts and big-shot
authors like Andrew Sean Greer, Vendela Vida and Michelle
Tea -- as well as the hostess ... and you've got a
seriously (and not so seriously) good time. -- SF Weekly,
Best of San Francisco 2006
What happens when you throw two science fiction writers, a
sketch comedy troupe, a poet, a memoirist, and a "fetish
diva" in a room together and ply them with booze? Even
host, founder, and Choir Boy
author Charlie
Anders can't say for sure, but her monthly events -- half
salon, half reading -- are never boring. -- SF Flavorpill,
issue 188
BEST LITERARY NIGHT. Writers with drinks are writers ready
to meet the world, and when our readers have a hankering to
see these often spectacular mismatches, they turn (yes!) to
Writers With Drinks -- a kind of roving public salon and
reading series -- to put drinks in writers' hands and
thrust them onstage to bring their works to life. For those
who equate literary
with
stuffy,
WWD will come as a plesantly relaxed surprise. -- San
Francisco Bay Guardian, Best of the Bay, Readers Poll
2005
OK, so
a stand-up comic, a literary agent, a hostage negotiator, a
sex worker and a KALW radio current-affairs personality
walk into a bar .... No, this isn't an off-color joke, it's
Writers with Drinks, the spoken-word variety show that
mixes genres, styles and cocktails, back again with a
more-eclectic-than-usual concoction. Hosted by the incisive
and very connected writer Charlie Anders, the monthly
series celebrates writers from every corner of the literary
world, as well as pundits and comedians and a few other
sundry performers and intellectuals. -- SFGate.com's
Epicks, Jan. 7, 2005