San Jose Mercury News 

Nora Villagrán
October 8, 2002
 
1. More than 60 Bay Area novelists, humorists, poets, journalists, monologists and memoirists are giving readings at San Francisco venues.
2. Writers include Thomas Sanchez, Laura Glen Louis, Paul Flores, Terry Ryan, Ben Fong-Torres, Rebecca Walker and Alejandro Murguia.
3. Litquake kicks off with a panel discussion, “Dystopia/Utopia: Can the Bay Area Uphold a New Generation of Writers?” featuring such writers as devora major and Justin Chin.
“Dystopia/Utopia” panel: 6:30 p.m. Friday, 595 Market St., San Francisco; $18, $10 Commonwealth Club members; (415) 597-6705

Litquake: noon Saturday; San Francisco Main Library’s Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St., and Hiram W. Johnson State Office Building, Conference Center Auditorium B-100, 350 McAllister St., San Francisco; free. For full schedule of readings, check out www.litquake.org.