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Full Litquake Schedule Online Soon!

This year’s opening night: A special Litquake presentation of Porchlight with

• Raconteur, author, and columnist Jonathan Ames
• Actress (Joan of Arcadia, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants & General Hospital) and poet Amber Tamblyn
• SF man of the arts, author, and film producer Robert Mailer Anderson
• The always sly, savvy, and sharp comedian and author Will Durst
• East Bay author and spoken word firebrand April Sinclair
• Satirist and Alternadad author Neal Pollack
• The return of the sharp-tongued columnist, novelist, culture critic (and SF native) Cintra Wilson, whose book Caligula for President will be released September 2008

Litquake + the Library: San Francisco Stories in the Sunset

Litquake and the San Francisco Public Library continue their bi-monthly series of readings in branches throughout the city as a lead up to the big temblor this October.

Stories of San Francisco will be the focus at our third event, to be held at the Sunset Branch library (1305 18th Avenue) on Monday, September 8. Featured writers of tales of our town will include:

• Kim Wong Keltner, author of I Want Candy
• Kemble Scott, author of SoMa
• Pam Holm, author of The Night Garden
• Lisa Lutz, author of The Spellman Files and Curse of the Spellmans

San Francisco Stories
Monday, September 8, 7 pm
Sunset Branch
1305 18th Avenue

Litquake Announces 2008 Barbary Coast Award

Tobias Wolff—who Esquire calls “one of our most exquisite storytellers”— will receive Litquake’s second annual Barbary Coast Award during Litquake 2008. The brand new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is the site of the presentation honoring Wolff as man, teacher, and author on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Memories, toasts, and favorite Wolff selections will be shared with the audience by an all-star lineup of authors whose lives have been touched in some way by Wolff: George Saunders, Dave Eggers, Ann Packer, Tom Perrotta, Vendela Vida, Steve Elliott, Adam Johnson, Tom Kealey, and Graham Leggat. Plus a special performance by Word for Word. Tickets will be available for purchase soon at a cost of $25.

Mark Your Calendars:
Litquake 2008 Jumps Off the Page October 3-11

Litquake 2007 was the biggest so far. Attendance broke the 10,000 mark for the first time ever, with more than 350 authors participating.

And that was just a warm-up for 2008….

I came in from New York with an attitude. Who wouldn’t? But the people of your tiny coastal nation impressed me to no end. The turnout for the events was gigantic, and the enthusiasm kept pace. I was happy to be a stranger in a stranger land, and I hope to come back to Litquake again and again.

—Ben Greenman,
New Yorker editor & author of A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both.