Tonight’s biggest literary event is in Berkeley. Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Dave Eggers, and Daniel Handler host a $1000-a-head fundraiser for Barack Obama at the home of longtime political activists Linda Schacht and John Gage. They’re among many area writers who support Obama.

The Illinois senator’s first fundraiser in San Francisco was almost a year ago, when the price was $150 a head, not $1000.

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