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When I opened my eyes it was Tuesday already and we were in the thick of this festival! Originally, I was extremely pleased to see the Barbary Coast Award was on the second day this year instead of in the middle like last year, and it did really launch us right in to the week’s festivities. But because I covered the event for The Chronicle (which just ran today) I stayed up all night Saturday and, well, pretty much Sunday too, but now (don… …
these events such successes! Schedule Change For those of you hoping to catch Adam Mansbach at the Lit Crawl’s humor event this Saturday, note that he had to cancel his appearance due to family matters. Sellouts! Some of this week’s shows are already sold out—Chelsea Handler on Thursday, Flight of Poets, also on Thursday, and Saturday’s Words on the Waves event series on the Sausalito houseboats. Sorry! Litquake in the Bookstores Redux Wednesday … …
ent I’m currently rendering videos from the panel: Virtual Reality: The Effect of Fiction on Your Mind and from Porchlight: Tales of Hollywood Hell. I’ve actually already out-rendered my video capacity for the week on Vimeo, even though the week starts on Wednesday and I have a Plus account, so I’m not sure what I’m going to do with all these videos. Can you wait until next week? I’m also loading Lit on the Lake … …
Jon Wells is a Mill Valley writer, designer, and filmmaker. He is a member of the Tuesday Night Writers and a periodic reader at their series, Pints & Prose. … …
Charlie Price won the Edgar Award for The Interrogation of Gabriel James. He also works with kids in at-risk schools, is a trainer, an executive coach, an avid reader, and a pretty fair free-throw shooter. … …
Iranian-American author Persis Karim responds to the inaugural Litquake Questionnaire. See her at Writing Human Rights: Literature as a Window Into Iran on Thursday, Oct. 13, at the San Francisco Main Library. 1. Who are your favorite authors and books? Among my favorite authors and books are those that help bring the world a little closer to me. I love literature from other parts of the world, and in particular, I’m attract… …
Interested in helping to support Litquake? Volunteering at one of our fabulous events? Submitting your name as a potential reader? Sponsoring the festival? So many ways to join San Francisco’s literary festival celebrate its 12th year. Join us at an event—Buy Tickets Sustain the Festival as a Sponsor Support the Festival as a member of our Bestsellers Club Read all about it in our Newsletter Volunteer to join us behind the scenes Submi… …
MAGNITUDE 1.1 MAGNITUDE is a new, online quarterly publication comprised of poetry, fiction and nonfiction by volunteers, committee members, and participants of Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival. Every piece offers the reader an intimate, unique perspective of what it’s like to be behind the scenes of the largest literary festival on the West Coast. Have you ever written a poem about standing in a crowded pub, or bookstore,… …
ershins. 5. When and how do you write? (typewriter, Mac, in a café, for four hours each morning, etc?) On a lowbrow laptop at my kitchen table or in my chaotic office, in unpredictable sprints of a few hours a day for a few weeks; then I retreat for a few more weeks into dreaming up the lives of my characters as I go about living the rest of my life. 6. What is your greatest fear when you first turn in a manuscript? That it will be the firs… …
Melanie Rae Thon is author of seven books, including the new novel The Voice of the River. Her work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Prize anthologies, as well as Best American Short Stories. She will appear at Litquake’s South Bay Event in San Jose Tuesday, Oct. 11, and her story “Heavenly Creatures” is one of three shorts to be featured at Stories on Stage: Family on Thursday, Oct. 13 If you like NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” you’l… …