The True Stories Lounge

Come hear great true storytellers read about life, death, love, sex and the movies at the True Stories Lounge!
> Our exciting lineup:
> Tracy Clark-Flory is a staff writer for Salon.com, specializing in sex, relationships and pop culture, and a contributor to several publications including the annual Best Sex Writing anthology.
> Mark Hertsgaard is the environment correspondent for The Nation and contributor to Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone and other publications. His latest book is “Hot: Living… Show more Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.”
> Frances Dinkelspiel is founder of Berkeleyside, a newsite about all things Berkeley, contributor to many publications and author of “Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant named Isias Hellman Created California.”
> David Talbot is the co-founder of Salon.com and author of the bestselling “Brother: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years.” His new book is “Season of the Witch,” about the wild and bloody birth of San Francisco values.
> Thomas Peele is an investigative reporter for the Bay Area News Group, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and author of “Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism’s Backlash and the Assassination of a Journalist.”
> Mick LaSalle is the longtime film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle whose latest book is “Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses.”
Rose Aguilar, host of “Your Call,” a far-ranging daily public affairs show on NPR-affiliate KALW 91.7, is the author of “Red Highways: A Liberal’s Journey into the Heartland,” a commentator for KPFK’s Uprising and an op-ed wrier for Al Jazeera English.>

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