Excellent thing to do

Michelle Tea sent this announcement, and I'm going to be there. She's got Mary Woronov, for chrissake.

the RADAR reading series
a showcase of underground and emerging writers
thursday, july 8th
san francisco public library, main branch
downstairs in the latino reading room
6pm sharp * free

with:

From Los Angeles, ADELE BERTEI who began writing and singing sea shanties in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Adele has written screenplays for television, directed and edited narrative and documentary films, contributed articles to the now defunct New York Rocker and Vibe magazine, and had a story published in The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading. She is currently working on her first novel and is also frontman and co-conspirator in the L.A.-based band, the Anubian Lights.

MARK EWERT, a Capricorn who has a round bedroom in a turret in a lovely Victorian mansion! He's currently writing a tell-all memoir about his time amongst the avant-garde literati, a piece of which was excerpted in the anthology Pills, Thrills Chills and Heartache. He's the co-creator of Piki & Poko, a fun animated show that's been featured on VH1 and in the pages of Vanity Fair Check out http://www.pikiandpoko.com.

From Los Angeles, FELICE PICANO, whose first book was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Since then he has published over twenty volumes of fiction, poetry, memoirs, had his three plays produced and been nominated for or won many national and international literary awards. Considered a founder of modern gay literature with the other members of the Violet Quill Club, Picano founded the SeaHorse Press and Gay Presses of New York. Picano's most recent titles are the reissue of his three memoirs and The Joy of Gay Sex: Third Edition in 2003. In Spring 2004, Haworth will republish Picano's Sci-Fi masterwork, Dryland's End, and in Fall, 2004, University of Wisconsin Press will publish his autobiographical novella, Fred in Love.

from Los Angeles, MARY WORONOV, author of books including the memoir Swimming Underground, about her time spent debauching and art-making with Warhol and the mysterious and deranged Mole People, and the novel Snake; painter of bright and otherworldly landscaped and star of cult movies such as Warhol's Chelsea Girls, Rock 'n' Roll High School, Eating Raoul, and The Women. In her own words:

Mom and I were poor and kind of harried, until she married Dr. Woronov, after which I was sent to boarding school. When my younger brother was born, I was brought home to Brooklyn, where I went to Packer, a private girls school and then on to take art at Cornell. On a fieldtrip to NYC, I hook up with Warhol doing movies and off off Broadway plays, which I considered art. I married a guy, who directed me in my first real movie in Italy, and left him for another guy who wrote the play I received the Theater World Award for. Romantically unhappy, I went to LA to work for Roger Corman. When I married an agent/race car driver, bringing my acting career to a halt, I started painting again. Divorced for the second time I embraced the Punk scene in a sort of second childhood, and partied for the next ten years doing B movies and very expressionist paintings. Near death at fifty I quit everything, became a health addict, and started to write. Now, I am told that I am a Cult Queen because of all the bad movies I have done. I'm still not sure what this means. I continue to paint, have written six books and five screen plays, and directed soft-core porn for TV to pay the rent. Reading one of my stories from High School, I realize I was always meant to be a writer and now, have very little time.

Hosted by Michelle Tea, who will bake cookies for you. Following the reading, there will be a fantastic audience participation conversation with the writers. Ask a question, get a cookie!

It's Radar's one year birthday, so maybe there will be cupcakes instead of cookies.
No promises, though.