When: Saturday, April 22, 9pm
Where: The Edinburgh Castle, 950 Geary Street, San Francisco
Cost: $10-$20 suggested donation at the door

Come out to support Litquake at our first fundraiser of 2006, which raises an eyebrow toward famous (and not so famous) literary hoaxes, including 60’s alleged erotica classic, Naked Came the Stranger; the diaries of Hitler; the autobiography of Howard Hughes; the touching Native American children’s memoir The Education of Little Tree; JT Leroy’s big-sunglasses-wearing-boy-hooker-with-a-past persona, and much more.

Hosted by Litquake’s Jack Boulware and Alan Black and featuring:

• Bucky Sinister - author of Whiskey and Robots and King of the Roadkills
• Cameron Tuttle - author of the best-selling The Bad Girls Series
• Beth Lisick ” author of Everybody Into the Pool
• Eddie Muller ” “Czar of Noir”; founder of Noir City Film Festival; co-author of Tab Hunter Confidential
• Anthony Bedard ” star regular at San Francisco’s Porchlight storytelling series
• Mal Sharpe - legendary man-on-the-street radio prankster
• John Vanderslice - musician, producer, hoaxster

In addition to the readings there will be a slide show of classic hoaxes through history that aren’t literary, including Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast, the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, and Milli Vanilli”as well as informed conjecture about whether we ever really did put that man on the moon.

 In keeping with both the festival and San Francisco’s appreciation of irony, tattered literary traditions, sense of the past, but also our awe/joy regarding the written word, HOAX will keep you very entertained!