It’s summertime! In China, the Olympics are gearing up and people are playing games: running, throwing, jumping, and kicking. In America, people are eating donuts and watching 700 laps of NASCAR. Or yelling at their kids at soccer, or starving their child for gymnastics and dreaming of glory. Some of the Bay Area’s best writers come out of the sporting closet. Join us for a riot!

Saturday July 12, 9pm
$10 suggested donation benefits Litquake 2008
Edinburgh Castle Pub
950 Geary St, San Francisco

Participants include

* Beth Lisick: high school long jump record holder, author of Helping Me Help Myself
* Alan Black: failed soccer dad, author of Kick the Balls: An Offensive Suburban Odyssey
* Jack Boulware: high school equipment manager, three losing seasons, author of upcoming punk history Journey to the End of the East Bay
* Bucky Sinister: born from the fumes of NASCAR, author of All Blacked Out & Nowhere to Go
* Eddie Muller: SF’s “Czar of Noir,” son of legendary sports columnist Eddie “Mr. Boxing” Muller
* Jennifer Sey: author of Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams
* Naked Lady Wrestlers: legendary San Francisco punk-spoken word pranksters providing the music
* Bob Calhoun aka Count Dante: emcee for the evening, professional wrestler, and author of Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling