Why There Are Words
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| Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series always provides a magical night with its award-winning writers. Join us August 8, 2013 at Studio 333 to find out what the following fine writers have up their sleeves when they read their works on the theme “Magic.” Doors open at 7 pm & readings begin at 7:15. $10. Bring extra cash for books and booze. See the WTAW website for the authors’ full bios and other info.
See the WTAW website for the bios of our readers Nan Cuba, Julia DeBondt_Barker, Katie Hafner, Alan Kaufman, Natalie Serber, Ryan Sloan. Why There Are Words is the brainchild of and curated by Peg Alford Pursell. WTAW was named SF Guardian’s Best of the Bay for Literary Event 2012. We’re proud of that and glad you agree. We draw writers from all over the world but we continue to showcase the many fabulous Bay Area writers. |
Carlos Castaneda, John Collins, Suzanne Forster, Lacey Fosburgh*, Jane Futcher, Amy Tan, Thomas Harris, George Sterling, Yolanda Nava, Thomas Pynchon, Upton Sinclair, Alyson Noel, John Gray, Jennifer Ann Kogler, Herbert Gold*, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edith Tacher Hurd*, Jessica Barksdale Inclan, Jack Kornfeld*, Dashiell Hammett, Barbara Seranella, William Saroyan, Molly Dick*, Paul McHugh, Robyn Schneider, Delilah Beasley, Herb Caen, Devid Meltzer, Anna Deavere Smith, Molly Giles, Andrea Siegel, Barnaby Conrad*, Stewart Emery*, S. I. Hayakawa, Jonathan Kellerman, Alan Rifkin, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Isaacs Menken, Joaquin Miller, Paul Liberatore*, Dan Millman, Terry Black, Jack Hicks, J. S. Holliday, Anh Do, John Muir, Michael Scott Moore, Carolyn Follett, Carl Reiner, Victoria Silva, Audrey Wood, Don Miguel Ruiz, Rebecca Solnit, M. F. K. Fisher, Firoozeh Dumas, Lisa Alpine, Steve Martin, Khaled Hosseini, Edward Humes, Faye Kellerman, Susan Ito, Pico Iyer, D. P. Lyle, Eric Shapiro, Bonnie Domrose Stone, Kathleen Sharp, Joe Quirk, Ross Macdonald, Lynette Brasfield, Gail Tsukiyama, Jo Anne Van Tillburg, Bret Harte, K. C. Cole, June Dutton, Alexandra Haslam, Elizabeth McKenzie, Deanne Stillman, Jessica Mitford, Pat Morrison, Rupert Hughes, Thom Gunn, Susan Straight, Rayn Roberts, Randy Shilts, Peter Richardson, Veronique de Turenne, Ursula K. LeGuin, Tony Lazzarini, Peter Lefcourt, Yone Noguchi, Vladimir Lange, Tony Johnston, Malcolm Margolin, M. L. Malcolm, Michael McClure, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Lucille Lang Day, Oakley Hall, Robyn McGee, Kelly Lange, Nancy Huebotter, Stanton Delaplane*, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Thomas Steinbeck, Theodora Kroeber, Alan Clements, devorah major, Joie Davidow, John Lescroat, Linda Palmer, Robert Haas*, Louis B. Jones, Robert de Heer, Leora Krygier, John D. Grissim*, John Gilmore, Robinson Jeffers, Molly Fish, Kathryn J. Abajian, John Forbes, William O’Daly, Shirley Ann Parker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Wardlaw Lee, Penny Warner, Taylor Smith, Ruben Martinez, Peg Bracken, Joe Gores*, Jean Harfenist, Lee Lofland, Kimball Livingston*, Carolyn See, Ona Russell, Shesshu Foster, Molly Katzen, Mikel Dunham, Laurel House, Judy Reeves, Marybeth Bond*, Judith Greber*, Jack Hirschman, Edwin Markham, Donald DeNevi, Ishmael Reed, David Masumoto, Andrew Sean Greer, Floyd Salas, Jimmy Hopper, Tillie Olsen, Michael Parenti, Fanny Osbourne, Daniel Handler, Frank Chin, Julie Williams, Lacey Fosburgh, Kevin Starr, Julie Wallace, Francisco Garces, Daniel A. Olivas, Anthony Marais, Louise Steinman, Mary Mackey, Louise Clappe, Martin Cruz Smith*, Richard Rodrigues, Alice Sebold, Erik Erikson, Aimee Liu, Reyna Grande, Regina Louise, Jack Shelton*, Wallace Stegner*, George Sterling*, Raymond Strait, Hector Tobar, Danielle Steele, Martin Cruz Smith*, Gertrude Stein, Ellen Sussman, Curt Gentry, Eric Stone, Victoria Zackheim, Elizabeth Stromme, Susan Vreeland, Alan Watts*, John Wasserman*, Joseph Wambaugh, Alice Walker, Jessamyn West, Marianne Williamson, D. J. Waldie, Ashley Wolff, Richard Vaughn, Al Young, Gary Zukav, Tobias Wolff, April Halpri Wayland, Dr. David Viscott, Oscar Zeta, Rick Wartzman, . . . and the list goes on
