It’s here: the full schedule for Litquake 2011!
Download the full Litquake 2011 Program (4 MB) or the 2011 SF Lit Crawl Map (1 MB) .
Check out the events on a day-by-day basis:
Friday, October 7
Saturday, October 8
Sunday, October 9
12:00 PM: Golden Gate and Beyond, Variety Preview Room
1:00 PM: Golden Gate and Beyond: Hour Two, Variety Preview Room
2:00 PM: The Word Extended: Voices from UC Berkeley Extension, UC Berkeley Extension Art & Design Center
2:00 PM: Thinking, Believing, Living: The Human as Being, Variety Preview Room
2:30 PM: Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons, Contemporary Jewish Museum
3:00 PM: Writing the Wild, Variety Preview Room
4:00 PM: “That’s My F*cking Stool!”—Writers at the Bar , Vesuvio
4:00 PM: “The Great Night” in Buena Vista Park, Buena Vista Park Summit
4:00 PM: The Secret Life of Metaphor, Z Space
4:30 PM: Voices of North Beach: A Literary Tour, The Beat Museum
5:00 PM: Pitchapalooza, Variety Preview Room
6:00 PM: These Mean Streets: Reality and Fiction Collide, Tosca Cafe
7:00 PM: Litquake Presents Jane Smiley In Conversation with Karen Joy Fowler, Variety Preview Room
7:00 PM: Adam Mansbach In Conversation with Lyrics Born, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Kanbar Hall
7:00 PM: Being Human: Litquake Presents Brian Christian In Conversation with Thomas Goetz, Delancey Street Screening Room
8:00 PM: His Dark Places: Litquake Presents James Ellroy In Conversation with Janis Cooke Newman, Z Space
Monday, October 10
3:00 PM: New Writers Toolkit: “First-Time Authors Reveal All” and “Want That Book Published?”, Foundation Center
6:00 PM: The Best Novels You Haven’t Read, The Book Club of California
6:00 PM: Christopher Moore in Collision: Whales, Comedy, and The Impressionists, Z Space
6:30 PM: The Intersection of Medicine and Literature , Heart Wine Bar
7:00 PM: Litquake in the Bookstore: Micah Ballard and Alli Warren , Bird & Beckett Books and Records
7:00 PM: Teenquake: Not Your Mother’s Book Club, Books Inc. Opera Plaza
7:00 PM: Original Shorts: Failure to Commit, The Lone Palm
7:00 PM: San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers and Quiet Lightning Present: The Greenhouse Effect Summer Reading Series, V.3 , San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
8:00 PM: Are We Good? An Evening of Stories about Apology, Redemption, and Outright Begging For Forgiveness, Verdi Club
8:00 PM: MFA Body Slam! The First-Ever Litquake and San Francisco Bay Area MFA Mixer , Swedish American Hall
Tuesday, October 11
12:00 PM: Lit & Lunch, 111 Minna Gallery
12:30 PM: Words & Voices at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade
5:30 PM: Litquake presents Karen Russell in Conversation with Carolyn Cooke, Z Space
6:00 PM: Lit in the Hills: Scaling The East Bay’s Literary Heights, Monaghan’s on the Hill
6:00 PM: 10 Years Later: A Granta Conversation, The Book Club of California
6:00 PM: Got Soul? Science and the Quest for the Ephemeral, Mechanics' Institute Library
6:00 PM: Re Write: An Evening of Prose from Writers in Recovery, Delancey Street Screening Room
7:00 PM: New Directions Publishing 75th Anniversary: A Gala Celebration of a Quintessential American Publisher, City Lights
7:00 PM: An Evening with Melanie Rae Thon: A Litquake South Bay Event , Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Rm. 225
7:00 PM: Litquake in the Bookstore: Donia Bijan at Kepler’s , Kepler's Books
7:30 PM: Litquake Presents Julia Glass in Conversation with Katie Crouch, Z Space
7:30 PM: Litquake in the Bookstore: Chuck Klosterman at The Booksmith, The Booksmith
8:00 PM: Young Ireland: Emissaries from a New Literary Renaissance, Swedish American Hall
9:00 PM: Barbershop Reading: A Little Off the Top and Over the Top, Joe's Barbershop
Wednesday, October 12
9:40 AM: Kidquake: K-2, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
7:00 PM: Litquake in the Bookstore : Daniel Woodrell at Books Inc. in the Marina, Books, Inc. in the Marina
7:00 PM: Litquake in the Bookstore: Anne Enright at Book Passage, Book Passage, Corte Madera
7:00 PM: RADAR at the Luggage Store, Luggage Store
7:30 PM: War of the Worldviews: A Debate with Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow, First Congregational Church of Berkeley
7:30 PM: Litquake in the Bookstore: Mary Roach at The Booksmith, The Booksmith
7:30 PM: The Fighter and The Writer: Litquake presents The Barbary Coast Award to Ishmael Reed, Z Space
Thursday, October 13
9:40 AM: Kidquake: Grades 3-5, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
4:00 PM: Religious Renegades, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
5:15 PM: Writing Human Rights: Literature as a Window Into Iran, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
6:00 PM: Serving It Forth: A Feast of Food Writing, Chronicle Books
6:30 PM: This Just In…Local News Makes Headlines, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
6:30 PM: VIP Reception with Chelsea Handler—SOLD OUT!!, undisclosed location
7:00 PM: Flight of Poets, Hotel Rex
7:00 PM: Stories on Stage: Family, Delancey Street Screening Room
7:00 PM: Bird & Beckett Books And Records presents David Meltzer, Neeli Cherkovski, Latif Harris, Julie Rogers, Jerry Ferraz and Walker Brents at Kaleidoscope , Kaleidoscope
7:30 PM: Lit Flicks: Screening of Doc, Oddball Film+Video
8:00 PM: Subterranean SF Reading Series: The Litanies of Noir, undisclosed location
8:00 PM: Literary Death Match: Litquake Rumble, Beatbox
8:00 PM: Are You There, Litquake? It’s Me, Chelsea!—SOLD OUT!!, Z Space
Friday, October 14
1:00 PM: When Pictures Speak Louder Than Words, Z Space
5:30 PM: Murders, Mayhem and Moxie: Litquake’s Women’s Night 2011 , Bubble Lounge Champagne Bar
5:30 PM: Tonga at Tosca: The Launch of Tonga Books, Tosca Cafe
6:00 PM: Numina Femenina: The Voice of the Feminine in Mexican Literature, Tres
6:30 PM: Teenquake: Word for Word “Off the Page” Staged Reading of Selections from The Sky Is Everywhere, Z Space
7:00 PM: Jeffrey Eugenides at Books Inc. Opera Plaza, Books Inc. Opera Plaza
7:00 PM: Kafkaesque: SF in SF, Variety Preview Room
7:00 PM: Rock Out with Your Book Out: Music Writers and Musicians Who Write, Make-Out Room
7:30 PM: Figure Four Caps Lock: Pro Wrestling Memoirs from Classy Freddie Blassie to The Fabulous Moolah, Hemlock Tavern
8:00 PM: Teenquake and Figment.com present Teen Writing Awards, Z Space
8:00 PM: Nordic Noir: A Dark and Stormy Night of Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Swedish American Hall
Saturday, October 15
