Lip Service West: East Meets Left

It's official!  The original Lip Service folks (Andrea Askowitz and Esther Martinez) are flying out (along with Dr. Sean Kenniff, who is so popular he has his own fucking Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Kenniff) for this year's Litquake extravaganza (http://www.litquake.org/).  Couldn't be more excited.


I'm so excited, in fact, that I am going to do something I rarely do: actually read at a Lip Service West event, which I stopped doing a while ago, since reading at the same event your producing is tantamount to throwing a surprise party for yourself (not that there is anything wrong with that, Andrea and Esther!).  


Seriously, this is going to be fucking awesome.  (Or as the kids say "off the hook.")  Don't know the exact location yet, but it will be somewhere in the Mission, probably on Valenica Street, in some seedy bar.  I've put together the dirtiest, most degenerate SF-based writers I know (including myself), which will be contrasted nicely with the Miami sunshine, neurosis, and all-around pop culture goodness.


I do have the date and time.  October 15th, 6:30-ish.


Here are the lives of each reader, whittled down to 25 words.

Andrea Askowitz wrote My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy; co-produces Lip Service (Miami); and published work in the New York Times and who cares where else?

LSW producer, Joe Clifford has been published often, but he is most proud of Thuglit.  He has been to jail but never prison.  www.joeclifford.com

Sean Kenniff is a modern renaissance man: neurologist, medical journalist, author of acclaimed novels Etre the Cow and Stop Effing Yourself--and Survivor! castaway.

Greg Kim, a late bloomer, has been published in Drug Car, True Lesbians and Litta, Please.  He wrote a book; the name isn’t important. www.sitdowncasper.blogspot.com

Esther Martinez has appeared in The Daily Beast, Newsday, and on NPR and PBS in Miami, Florida, where she lives and procrastinates on writing.

Tom Pitts, former frontman for Short Dogs Grow, got his street education surviving a 16-year bout with heroin.  His work has appeared in Junk, others.

Hope you can make it.  These are some of the best writers (and people) I know. Don't miss it.  (And, yes, there will be free hot dogs.)