I am honored and excited to be a part of a panel this Thursday night at the legendary Mechanics Institute Library in San Francisco. If you’re in the Bay Area, this is a great chance to come check out this incredibly cool space, as well as listen to great speakers addressing an issue that’s near to a lot of book geeks’ hearts: “Is The Book Dead?”

Here are the details, from the Library:

Thursday, December 3, 2009 2^nd floor Mechanics Institute Library, 6:30 PM (doors at 5:30)

LOCATION: Mechanics’ Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco

Panel: Is the Book Dead? High-Tech and the Written Word

Join us for our bi-annual Members Meeting followed by a dynamic discussion on the future of the written word, with local literary celebrities, who will debate the future of books, newspapers and printed media with the surge of the internet and merging technologies.

Moderated by Alan Kaufman, author of Matches and Jew Boy; and editor The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Panelists: Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), author of The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, A Series of Unfortunate Events, a series of popular children’s’ books. Brenda Knight, Associate Publisher, Cleis Press & Viva Editions   John McMurtrie, Book Editor, San Francisco Chronicle Annalee Newitz, former culture editor at The San Francisco Bay Guardian and syndicated columnist of Techsploitation. Scott Rosenberg, author of Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters, and Dreaming in Code. Oscar Villalon, is a publisher at McSweeney’s literary journal, and the former Book Editor, San Francisco Chronicle.

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