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Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series

Why
There Are Words Literary Reading Series
celebrates
its Fourth Anniversary! For
four years, WTAW has been doing what you love while we have been
doing what we love: gathering writers extraordinaire to read their
works to listeners extraordinaire. Join us on January 9, 2014, at
Studio 333 in Sausalito to celebrate the beginning of our
quinquennium and to hear the following top six writers you
selected from the last four extraordinary years to read. Doors will
open at 7 pm and readings will start at 7:15. Bring extra cash for
books and booze.
For more
information, including the authors’ full bios, visit the website at
whytherearewords.com.  



Tom
Barbash
is the
author of, most recently, the acclaimed book of stories Stay
Up With Me

(HarperCollins 2013).  



Lynn
Freed’s
books
include six novels, a collection of stories, and a collection of
essays, the most recent of which is The
Servants’ Quarters
.
www.lynnfreed.com  

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Molly
Giles’
most
recent story collection, All
The Wrong Places
,
just won the Spokane Prize for Fiction and is forthcoming from Willow
Springs Press later this year.  



Glen
David Gold
is
the author of the novels Carter
Beats the Devil

and Sunnyside. In
2014, the Circle Theater in Hollywood will launch his multi-part
adaptation of Otto Friedrich's City
of Nets
.

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Daniel
Handler
is the
author of the novels The
Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs
,
and Why We Broke
Up
. As
Lemony Snicket, he is the author of far too many books for children,
including his new series his new series,
All The Wrong Questions.
www.lemonysnicket.com



MelissaPritchard
is the author of
four award-winning collections of stories and four novels, including
the brand new Palmerino,
(January 2014, Bellevue Literary Press.)
 http://www.public.asu.edu/~melissap/index.html



Why There Are Words,
curated by founder Peg
Alford Pursell
and
named Best of the Bay for Literary Events 2012 in its second year,
draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday of the
month. Studio 333 is located at 333
Caledonia Street, Sausalito, CA 94965.
Phone Studio 333
at 415-331-8272.



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