I know why TV has commercials. It's to get me to buy much new stuff. But why does HBO have commercials? All of them are for other HBO shows.  And if I'm seeing the ad, it's because I already have HBO. So they have my money. So why are they bothering me?

You can ponder this at the next Writers Working on June 17.

Our readers are

• Katherine Wessling (Speak, Swing, WNYC, Strawberry Festival Semi-Finalist)
• Dave Serchuk (Forbes.com, NPR)
  
• George Johns (Angels on Earth, Yo-yo Champion)
  
• David Silverman (Typo, June 2007, Softskull Press)
• Jen Nails (Lylice, Fall 2008, Houghton Mifflin)

7pm, Sunday, June 19th, 2007

Drama Book Shop 250 West 40th Street (b.t. 7th and 8th)Presented in Association with the Drama Book Shop

For reservations, call (212) 944-0595, ext. 417