This month’s Writers with Drinks features:

• Aimee Bender (pictured at right) (The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Willful Creatures)
• Ariel Gore (no relation to Al Gore that I know of), author of How to Becomes a Famous Author Before You’re Dead and editor of Hip Mama
• blogger Wagner James Au, who covers Second Life on the blog New World Notes
• Simone Corday, author of 9 1/2 Years Behind the Green Door
• and comic Edwin Li.

As always, hosted and MC’d by the amazing Charlie Anders, who has also recently become Senior Assoc. Editor at io9.com. (Earlier this week I interviewed io9 chief editor Annalee Newitz.)