Basement Reading Series 
May 15th, 7:30 pm
At 2390 Mission Street Suite #10, at 20th and Mission in the basement of the Bikram Mission Yoga Building (entrance on 20th)
Admission $2
Please join us at the Basement Series in May for readings by Beth
Lisick, Michelle Richmond, and Adam Tobin. Beth Lisick is a well-known
and loved SF performance artist, fiction writer and former head of
the band the Beth Lisick Ordeal. Lisick's short story collection,
This Too Can Be Yours, was the winner of the 2002 Firecracker Award
for fiction. Michelle Richmond's novel, Dream of the Blue Room, has been
described by the SF Chronicle as "intelligent, original, and
complex." The Chronicle praises her as a writer who "clearly knows
what a novelist should do and sets about doing it with skill." Adam
Tobin's experimental works in theater, sound and music have been
recently performed at the Irrational Exuberance series and at The Chapel
of the Chimes. He will read from his database novel in verse.
Author Bios
Beth Lisick is a writer and
performer. She is the author of Monkey Girl and most recently, This Too
Can Be Yours, a collection of short stories that won the 2002
Firecracker Alternative Book Award for fiction. She is a member of the
sketch comedy group White Noise Radio Theatre, co-organizes a monthly
storytelling series called Porch Light and writes a column for SF
Gate.com. Beth can currently be seen between the hours of midnight and 4
am in a low-budget tv commercial for a chain of check cashing stores.
Michelle Richmond is the author of
the novel Dream of the Blue Room and the story collection The Girl in
the Fall Away Dress. Her essays and stories have appeared in 7x7,
Salon.com, Glimmer Train, Exquisite Corpse, and elsewhere. She
teaches in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of San Francisco
and edits the Online literary journal Fiction Attic
(http://www.fictionattic.com). Her website is www.michellerichmond.com Adam Munsey Tobin has
published his writing under various pseudonyms. He has work forthcoming
in Fence magazine, and will soon be attending an MFA program at Brown
University. He will read selected reports from Assoc. Inc., a database
novel in verse in progress.
1. How do you pronounce Assoc. Inc.?
a. Association Incorporated
b. Association Inc.
c. Assoc. Incorporated
d. Assoc. Inc.
2. What is a database novel?
a. That's not writing; it's typing.
b. That's not typing; it's word processing.
c. That's not word processing; it's database maintenance.
More about previous readings in 2003:
About the Basement Reading Series:
The Basement Reading series is a monthly
reading series. It is designed to give writers a chance to read work
that is in progress and to build more community among Bay Area writers.
It is a place for writers and readers to gain inspiration and create
a dialogue among the varied schools of writing in the Bay Area.
Contact info: Jenny Bitner 415-647-1015 jenny@jennyart.com
The Basement Reading Series (Tue/18)
Sweatin' to the Posey
It's well past time for
a new literary reading series in the Mission (Adobe has had a lock on
bookish hipsters' hearts for too long) and, judging by the incredible
turnout for the Basement's first couple of events, the literature-loving
94114 demographic agrees with me. The Basement Reading Series, started
up by local upstart Jenny Bitner, writer and editor of To-Do List
magazine, meets monthly in a sultry, still-sweat-fragrant Bikram Yoga
studio at 20th and Mission. Bitner is an excellent hunter and gatherer;
she knows some of the finest young poets and writers around these parts,
spanning the literary spectrum from "experimental writing to gritty
naturalism to post-magical realism." Next Tuesday night, poet James Hoch
("A Parade of Hands") will read with poet Glori Simmons ("Graft"), and
Bitner herself will unveil a new short story. -- Jan Richman, special to
SF Gate
Looking for Irrational Exuberance? Click here.
Check back soon for more info on the 2003 series.