The Progressive Reading Series

The Progressive Reading Series is a monthly literary benefit to support progressive congressional candidates nationwide. It happens on the second Monday of every month, January 9 through October 9, 2006, at 7pm at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco. Stephen Elliott hosts.

This month's reading, January 9, is to benefit Nick Lampson, who is running in congressional district Texas 22 against Tom DeLay.

Jim Shepard, Daniel Handler, Andrew Sean Greer, Christian Parenti, Suzanne Kleid. Also Campo Santo performing from a new play by Denis Johnson.

$10-20 sliding scale. $30 gets you a copy of the new anthology Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction, edited by Stephen Elliott and published by MacAdam/Cage.