As a grand kickoff to Marcus Books’ 50th anniversary, this reception will include a reading and book-signing by bestselling author Terry McMillan.
Litquake in the Bookstore
MONDAY, OCTOBER 4
7:30 pm
Tao Lin at The Booksmith
Brooklyn-based author and poet Tao Lin returns to San Francisco to read from his newest novel, Richard Yates.
The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco FREE; Preferred seating voucher with Booksmith purchase…
LitCrawl, Phase 1: Saturday, Oct. 17
Phase 1: 6-7 pm
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.
LitCrawl, Phase 2: Saturday, Oct. 17
Phase 2: 7:15-8:15 pm
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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LitCrawl, Phase 3: Saturday, Oct. 17
Phase 3: 8:30-9:30 pm
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!
Access a printable…
Litquake Schedule: Friday, Oct. 9
Litquake and Kepler’s whet your literary appetite with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, live and in person at the Kepler’s store in Menlo Park. The festival then launches with Black, White, and Read: Litquake’s Book Ball at the Herbst Theatre, our only-in-SF mashup of recession elegance, literary hijinks and smarty-pants schmooze! …
Litquake Schedule: Saturday, Oct. 10
The SF Main Library’s Koret Auditorium hosts Litquake’s traditional “Off the Richter Scale” reading series from 11 am to 6 pm, with each hour devoted to a different literary style and genre. Evening events range from musicians and music writers, to sci-fi authors of color, and queer fiction read out…
Litquake Schedule: Sunday, Oct. 11
Sunday afternoon at the Koret, our “Shaken and Stirred: Litquake in Conversation” presents hour-long panel discussions that highlight the cutting-edge subjects of literary life, from genre writing, to science, books to film, and the value of the essay. British author Roz Savage is at Books Inc., our customized Literary North…
Litquake Schedule: Monday, Oct. 12
The SF Foundation Center hosts our annual industry panel discussions on how to get your first book published, and sage advice from first-time authors. You may need to clone yourself to guarantee seeing all the evening events, from punk rock storytelling at Broadway Studios, to “Poets in the Pews” at…
Litquake Schedule: Tuesday, Oct. 13
Many bookstore events to choose from, with bestselling authors like Mary Roach, Thad Carhart, and Project Runway’s Christian Siriano. Mechanic’s Institute hosts a panel discussion “Where the Mind Meets the Brain,” One City One Book author Doug Dorst chats with Adam Johnson at the SF Main Library, the National Book…
