House Reading with Mary Burger and Magdalena Zurawski
Location: Stephanie's House
434 36th Street, Oakland, CA 
When:  Friday, December 12, 7:00pm

Another house reading brought to you by kari edwards, Taylor Brady and Stephanie Young. Potluck at 7:00 (bring something to eat or drink if you can) and readings at 8:00.

Some of Mary's recent work appears in VeRT issue 9
(http://www.litvert.com/issue9.html). Her books include The Boy Who Could Fly, Bleeding Optimist, Thin Straw That I Suck Life Through, and Nature's Maw Gives and Gives. Her work Sonny, a midwestern, is forthcoming from Leon Books. She edits Second Story Books, a series of short experimental narrative works, and Narrativity, an online forum for experimental narrative. She is undertaking a return to the world of the letterpress.

Magdalena Zurawski was born in 1972 in Newark NJ. She recently moved to San Francisco from Philadelphia (needed to give up brotherly love for sisterly affection). She is currently writing a novel called THE BRUISE which she hopes will make her a lesbian cult figure or something equally exciting that will allow her to quit waiting tables. There is a chapter of her novel up on the Narrativity website Issue Three.(http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/narrativity/issue_three/zurawski.html)

Mary and Maggie are rumored to tour the underground with a White Stripes cover band.

FURTHER DIRECTIONS:

From BART
Go to the MacArthur station. Walk through the parking lot and out the back exit, taking a right onto Telegraph ave. At the light (MacArthur Ave.) cross the street. Keep walking up Telegraph towards downtown (meaning cross the street again). 36th Street is your second left. Walk up the street, my house is near the top, on your left. If you reach the park you’ve gone too far.

HOUSE DESCRIPTION FOR EVERYONE:
White with cream trim, driveway up the right hand side. Big butter colored truck in the back of the driveway, and behind that a shed with a blue puppet face. Walk up the driveway and knock on the door to your left. There are a few concrete steps and a metal square with a red piece of wood, which is how you’ll know you’re at the front door. Plus there will be signs!