Babylon Salon

presents a special performance

Saturday, September 9, 2023

in The Sycamore's outdoor patio

2140 Mission St, San Francisco [16th St BART]

Come for drinks at 5 // Show starts at 5.30pm

featuring

Beth Winegarner

(San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History)

“San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries is an act of restorative justice”

— Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting

Beth Winegarner is a journalist, author, essayist and pop culture critic who’s contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is a former daily news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and a former contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Sonoma,The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back, and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. Her newest book, San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History, is out now.

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Colin Winnette

(Users)

“Not only a book for today or a warning about tomorrow, but a timeless and moving story about fatherhood and one man’s yearning for a more meaningful life.”

— Jessamine Chan, The New York Times Book Review

Colin Winnette is a writer from Denton, Texas. His latest novel Users was published by Soft Skull Press in February 2023. He is also the author of The Job of the Wasp (an American Bookseller Association’s Indie Next Pick), Haints Stay (one of the “15 Best Contemporary Westerns” -InsideHook), Coyote (an indie-bestseller and winner of Les Press’s NOS Book Contest), and Revelation (“A forceful book… about the absolute peril of desire.” -Ben Marcus). His novels have been translated into Italian and French. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Bomb Magazine, and more.

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Doug Henderson

(The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club)

“[in The Cleveland Heights Sci-Fi & Fantasy Role Playing Club] Henderson has created something special—part Hobbit and part Breakfast Club—a bittersweet story of love and friendship that tackles big subjects like homophobia, social anxiety, and coming out with a touch of magic.”

—K.M. Soehnlein, The World of Normal Boys

Doug Henderson is the author of The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club, and a winner of the PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. His story, The Manga Artist, was runner-up for the Iowa Review Award for Fiction, and his story More was a winner of the BART Lines short story contest. Originally from Cleveland, he received his MFA from the University of San Francisco. He lives in the Castro District with his husband, their two children, and a large collection of role playing games.

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Terry Tierney

(The Bridge on Beer River)

“[An] engaging tale of nomadic hippiedom . . . Flash’s journey is frightening and heartening.”

– San Francisco Chronicle

Terry Tierney is the author of a new novel, The Bridge on Beer River (Unsolicited Press, July 2023), the poetry collection The Poet’s Garage (Unsolicited Press, 2020), and the novel Lucky Ride (Unsolicited Press, 2021). His stories and poems have appeared in Ghost Parachute, Fictive Dreams, Rust + Moth, Typishly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Lake, Third Wednesday, Puerto del Sol, and Poetry Northwest, and other publications. He is a member of the SF Writer’s Grotto. More can be found on his website: http://terrytierney.com

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Danielle Truppi

(Happy Endings Reading Series)

Danielle Truppi is a co-host and producer of the monthly reading series Happy Endings. She has been published in ZYZZYVA Online and The Racket, with performances at Quiet Lightning, The Racket Performance Series, Cliterary Salon, BeastCrawl, LitCrawl and more. She holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University.
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in partnership with our friends

The Booksmith

in their new location at 1727 Haight Street, San Francisco

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Free Admission!