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The True Stories Lounge!

Come hear great storytellers tell true tales of love, sex, life, death, muses and movies at The True Stories Lounge!

Tracy Clark-Flory is a staff writer for Salon.com, specializing in sex, relationships and pop culture, and a contributor to several publications including the annual Best Sex Writing anthology.

Inquiries to truestorieslounge@gmail.com.

Mark Hertsgaard, environment correspondent for The Nation and contributor to Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone and other publications. His latest book is "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth."

Frances Dinkelspiel is founder of Berkeleyside, a newsite about all things Berkeley, contributor to many publications and author of "Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant named Isias Hellman Created California."

David Talbot is the co-founder of Salon.com and author of the bestselling "Brother: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years." His new book is "Season of the Witch," about the wild and bloody birth of San Francisco values.

Thomas Peele is an investigative reporter for the Bay Area News Group, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and author of "Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash and the Assassination of a Journalist."

Mick LaSalle is the longtime film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle whose latest book is "Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses."

Rose Aguilar, host of "Your Call," a far-ranging daily public affairs show on NPR-affiliate KALW 91.7, is the author of "Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland," a commentator for KPFK's Uprising and an op-ed wrier for Al Jazeera English.