Why There Are Words

8 NOVEMBER 2012 — thursday

Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents a prose reading on the theme of "Promise," featuring Fred Arroyo, Western Avenue and Other Fictions, short story writer Stacy Bierlein, A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends, fiction writer Leslie Ingham, short story writer Patricia Ann McNair, The Temple of Air, poet Zack Rogow, My Mother and the Ceiling Dancers, short story writer Jenn Scott, and debut novelist Rayme Waters, The Angels' Share, Studio 333, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, $5, 7:00-9:00 (415/331-8272, whytherearewords.com)