Join us for the first Epicenter of 2012, featuring the Bay Area’s own “Julia & Julia” combo: nonfiction authors Julia Flynn Siler and Julia Scheeres at Tosca Café. Free. …
Final 2011 Epicenter with GuyWriters
Join us for the final Epicenter event of 2011, when GuyWriters community teams up with Litquake for Writing Down the Past: Gay Men Reveal Their Histories, a one-time event on Monday, Nov. 14, 6-8 pm. …
Neal Pollack in conversation with Dan Fost
Join Litquake favorite Neal Pollack on Nov. 13 for a special conversation with Dan Fost about Pollack’s new novel Jewball, a funny, gritty historical noir about a tough Jew on the brink, as a great American game comes into its own. …
Hit the Book Bar at Lit Crawl 2011
Joining the Lit Crawl this year is the inaugural “Book Bar”—a mobile, interactive installation on a trailer with live interviews of authors, artists, and musicians in parking spots around the city.
Check out the full Lit Crawl schedule at litcrawl.org/sf/schedule. …
Figure Four Caps Lock: Pro Wrestling Memoirs
Litquake gives the pro wrestling memoir the respect that it deserves with Figure Four Caps Lock, a night of readings from the greatest published accounts of life inside the squared circle on Friday, Oct. 14. …
Words on the Waves
It’s SOLD OUT, but we’re so excited we had to mention it one more time: the major addition of a 23-author tsunami on Sausalito houseboats the final day of the Festival. The event showcases nine events on featuring writers who live on the boats or are from the North Bay literary scene. …
Barbary Coast Award Honors Ishmael Reed
Litquake’s 2011 Barbary Coast Award honors poet, publisher, novelist, and dramatist Ishmael Reed, one of the most original and controversial figures in African-American letters. Join us at Z Space on Wednesday, Oct. 12. …
Stories on Stage: Family
If you like NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” you’ll love Litquake’s version, Stories on Stage: Family, Thursday, Oct. 13. Directed by Campo Santo’s Sean San José, the event features short fiction by Ann Packer, Melanie Rae Thon, and Jennifer Egan. …
The Best Novels You Haven’t Read
Expand your mind and stretch your literary horizons as scholars from UC Berkeley and Stanford discuss “The Best Novels You Haven’t Read” at The Book Club of California (312 Sutter St., Suite 500), starting at 6 pm. …
The Secret Life of Metaphor with James Geary
Think you’re straightforward? Bet you didn’t realize you use a metaphor every 10-25 words. Let James Geary enlighten you while juggling balls as well as words at The Secret Life of Metaphor Sunday, Oct. 9. And…a few suggestions to shorten the wait. …
