Lit at The Canvas
A celebration of San Francisco literature
Monday, February 23rd at 7:00PM
The Canvas Cafe (9th Avenue & Lincoln), SF
Free - but we will pass the hat- so if you like want you hear, and you would like to kick out some cash to the writer. We will give you a hat to put it in.
This is a series of theme literary events in the Sunset district of San Francisco. The idea is simple – a reading series with a twist; something that you may not see at a normal reading.
This month, we talk a look at Sex, Death, Life, and the Government. Four totally separate things or things that are easily intertwined; during this month we will find out.
Featured writers:
Retired cartoonist Trina Robbins turned her talents to feminist pop culture over ten years ago when she wrote her first book on women cartoonists, the now out of print
A Century of Women Cartoonists. Since then, she's written ten more books including a book about dark goddesses (
Eternally Bad) and her latest is
Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill. Aside from writing about women who kill, she still likes to write
about killer women cartoonists. Check out Trina's website at
www.trinarobbins.com.
Sherilyn Connelly is a San Francisco-based writer and performer who moved to The City in 1994 so she wouldn't have to be Fresno-based anymore. She's featured at Adobe Books, The Berkeley Summer Poetry Series, The Camp Trans
2003 Benefit, fundraisers for Tom Ammiano and Matt Gonzalez (but not Angela Alioto, oddly enough), Perverts Put Out!, Spanganga's Chick Nite, and the infamous Back from the Dead show with Danielle Willis. (Sherilyn was the
skinny goth chick
without fangs.) She co-hosts the monthly variant kabaret Wicked Messenger, and acted in Spanganga's stage productions of
Night of the Living Dead and
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Her chapbooks
Substance and
Sublimation are available at Dog-Eared Books and Modern Times, both located at 20th and Valencia for your shopping convenience. And, as if that weren't enough – and, really, don't you think it ought to be – she also co-produces the cult public access show
kittypr0n, which you should watch.
Harmon Leon has written features for
Details,
Maxim,
Salon,
Cosmopolitan,
The Wave and NPR's
This American Life, as well as many other national and international publications.
The Harmon Chronicles is a collection of essays written in Leon's unique, "infiltrative" style. In naming
The Harmon Chronicles Best Humor Book for
January/February 2003, Book Sense said, "Leon makes David Sedaris look like
George Will." Leon's one-man show, "Harmon Leon Goes to Hell" received rave reviews at comedy festivals around the world. He lives in San Francisco and is
currently touring the U.S. in support of
The Harmon Chronicles.
The mad geniuses behind it all:
Kevin Smokler (Emcee) is a book critic for the
San Francisco Chronicle, a contributor to NPR and a resident of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. His weekly newsletter of book recommendations,
The Smoke Signal, goes out to bibliophiles all over the world.
Melinda Adams (producer) - is a confused DIY renaissance woman, has been an
event planner, stage tech, writer, filmmaker, and actress. She is a resident
of the Sunset and just sick of having to get on a bus to see a great show.
For further information:
www.lilycat.com
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