SATURDAY, October 7, 11 a.m. –5 p.m.

Off the Richter Scale, a whirlwind tour through a vast array of Bay Area literary styles and genres, from fiction to poetry, journalism, memoir, spoken-word, and essays. The San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium (Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street). FREE

11 a.m.– 12 p.m.
Tantalizing True Tales: The Best Nonfiction
Eric Spitznagel
Tom McNichol
Joe Quirk
Jason Roberts
Michael Chorost
Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Keith and Kent Zimmerman

12 p.m. — 1 p.m.
Intellectual Property: Writers Who Make Us Think
Clark Blaise
Jonathon Keats
Judy Budnitz
Don Hanlon Johnson
Leslie Berlin
Adam Mansbach
Rebecca Solnit

1 p.m. — 2 p.m. 
Poetry by the Bay: Conflicts of the Heart
devorah major
Jorge Argueta
Diane di Prima
Paul Hoover
Joseph Lease
Toni Mirosevich
Jack Hirschman

2 p.m. — 3 p.m.
That’s History: Stories From Other Places and Times
Thomas Sanchez
Kathleen de Azevedo
Lloyd Zimpel
Erika Mailman
Holly Payne
James Dalessandro
Janis Cooke Newman

3 p.m. — 4 p.m.
Visual Language: Authors in Words and Images
Lev
Erik Davis
Tricia O’Brien
Barbara Traub
Lisa Brown

4 p.m. — 5 p.m.
Noisy Lit: Writers Who Have Been There and Back
Bucky Sinister
Kate Braverman
Ben Fong-Torres
Michael Tolkin
Daphne Gottlieb
Kirk Read

SUNDAY, October 8, 12:30″4:30 p.m.

Off the Richter Scale, a whirlwind tour through a vast array of Bay Area literary styles and genres, from fiction to poetry, journalism, memoir, spoken-word, and essays. The San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium (Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street). FREE

12:30 p.m. — 1 p.m.
Litquake Introduces …
Melodie Bowsher
Michael Layne Heath
Leslie Larson
Kemble Scott

1 p.m. — 2 p.m.
Fiction That Resonates: A Sense of Character
Elizabeth McKenzie
Marta Acosta
Graham Leggat
Gloria Kurian Broder
Joshua Braff
Ellen Sussman
Barry Gifford

2 p.m. — 3 p.m.
The Message Matters: Communal Voices
Adisa Banjoko
Kim Shuck
Persis Karim
Awele Makeba
Dennis Fritzinger
Clare Morris
Maxine Hong Kingston

3 p.m. — 4:30 p.m.
Insiders and Outsiders: A Singular Perspective
Albert Flynn DeSilver
Cara Black
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Blag Dahlia
Robert Grudin
Truong Tran
Regina Louise
Tamim Ansary
Jeremy Larner
Lolly Winston
Brian Copeland