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Lit Crawl launches Phase 1 with readings from local lit orgs, reading series, and indie publishers; themes of food, transgressive lit, spirituality, and online writing; Bomb magazine’s BOMB-aoke!; and our annual Clarion Alley madness!
Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.
Phase 2 features Clarion Alley antics, reading series and indie publishers; social publishing with Scribd; behind-bars writing from HarperOne; voices from the Middle East, South Asia, and Afghanistan; zombies, smut, Jewish and Latino lit, 826 Valencia, a beekeeping store, and much more!
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Marisela Treviño Orta is a San Franciscan poet and playwright. Her debut play Braided Sorrow won the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Drama.
Phase 3 presents publication-curated readings from Ping-Pong, Re/SEARCH, Narrative, Canteen, Tin House, The Believer, & McSweeney’s, S.F. Chronicle, and Watchword Press/Farallon Review; themed fun with Heyday Books, The Rumpus, Philippine-American lit, travel authors, haiku and poetry; comedy group Kasper Hauser, and even more!
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Full schedule online now!
Litquake plans a real page-turner of a celebration to commemorate our ten-year anniversary! The West Coast’s largest literary festival opens on Friday, October 9 with “Black, White and Read: Litquake’s Book Ball,” featuring performances from the worlds of opera, jazz, classical music and the circus! …
Litquake went bi-coastal this week as The New York Times began its coverage of the festival. Read the lead to the inaugural post (and a link to the full piece) below. Keep watching The NYT online ArtsBeat—and you might want to give the dead-tree version a really close look this…
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