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Is The Book Dead? High Tech and the Written Word
Thursday December 3, 2009 at 5:30pm
Mechanics' Institute
57 Post Street
San Francisco Bay Area, California 94104 Get Directions
Thursday, December 3
MEMBERS' MEETING and PROGRAM
2nd floor Library
5:30 pm reception ; 6:00 meeting ; 6:30 panel

Join us for our bi-annual Members' Meeting followed by a dynamic discussion on the future of the written word, with local literary celebrities, who will debate the future of books, newspapers and printed media with the surge of the Internet and merging technologies.

Moderated by ALAN KAUFMAN, author of Matches and Jew Boy, and editor The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry.

Panelists:
DANIEL HANDLER (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), author of The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, A Series of Unfortunate Events, a series of popular children’s’ books

BRENDA KNIGHT, Associate Publisher, Cleis Press & Viva Editions

JOHN MCMURTRIE, Book Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
ANNALEE NEWITZ, former culture editor at The San Francisco Bay Guardian and syndicated columnist of Techsploitation

SCOTT ROSENBERG, author of Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters, and Dreaming in Code

OSCAR VILLALON, is a publisher at McSweeney’s literary journal, and the former Book Editor, San Francisco Chronicle

Reservations required.

For reservations, call 415-393-0100 or email at rsvp@milibrary.org
Ticket Info: Members and guests Free: Public $12
Category: Media
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