Come to this reading!

Michelle Tea writes:

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.