Monday May 19 (7:30pm)
Literary masterminds match wits and twist tongues to raise money for the Berkeley nonprofit Small Press Distribution, whose mission is exactly what it sounds like. Included among the competing spellers are George Lakoff (Don't Think of an Elephant), cookbook maven Mollie Katzen, and Michael Krasny, a familiar voice from KQED. The event follows in the footsteps of successful mashups of literature and booze around San Francisco, such as LitQuake and Writers With Drinks.
– Tanya Feldman