tuesday, august 10th
at the san francisco public library * main branch
downstairs in the latino reading room
6:00 pm * free
the RADAR reading series
a showcase of emerging and underground writers
featuring
from los angeles NOEL ALUMIT, the award-winning author of “Letters to
Montgomery Clift”;
whose work has appeared in The Advocate, Frontiers, and USA Today; and
acclaimed performance artist who has produced work on both coasts.
from pittsburgh, performance poet, journalist, and official guardian of
pop
art PAIGE MCBEE; who has performed her writing at Sara Lawrence
College, Brown
University, Homo-A-Go-Go, LadyFestPhilly, and K’vetsh-Boston; who has
been
published in LifeBoat: A Journal of Memoir, Boston’s Weekly Dig,
Pittsburgh’s
City Paper, Deek Magazine, and Gauge Magazine; who is currently working
on a
memoir about bad dads and the inherent goodness of people entitled The
Milkman
Theory; and who founded and co-hosted the queer open mic event
K’vetsh-Pittsburgh.
from san francisco, 2004 literary laureate PETER PLATE; who taught
himself to
write fiction during 8 years spent squatting in abandoned buildings;
who is
the author of 7 previous novels including One Foot off the Gutter,
Snitch
Factory, Police and Thieves, and Angels of Catastrophe, all published
by Seven
Stories Press; and whose newest novel is entitled Fogtown.
from pittsburgh, BETH STEIDLE; who has performed her work at Emerson
College,
Boston’s Charles Playhouse, Boston’s Oni Gallery, Brown University,
and
Homo-A-Go-Go; whose artwork has been published in Boston’s Weekly
Dig; who is
working on a memoir entitled Chemical Egrets, which details her bizarre
dealings
with her best/worst friend(s). (By which she means, her
schizophrenic/
bipolar brain(s)); and who founded and co-hosts K’Vetch Pittsburgh, a
queer open
mic event.
exotic, elaborate and entertaining audience participation q & a to
follow the
reading.
your host michelle tea will bake cookies. ask a question, get a
cookie.
it’s that simple.
the radar reading series would like to thank the san francisco bay
guaradian
for awarding it a 2004 best of the bay award, and the hormel center and
the
friends of the public library for their continued support of our little
literary
shindig.
